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> Considering the cost of living in Dublin vs the salary for tech grads versus... anywhere else in the world London, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris... all

by reitoei 11y ago

> Considering the cost of living in Dublin vs the salary for tech grads versus... anywhere else in the world London, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris... all way, way more expensive than Dublin. But if you can find a job that will pay 80k euro equivalent to a graduate with a computing degree from a Dublin university and zero industry experience, you should definitely take it, 100%, and I wish you the best of luck. Describing people who want to do this as 'idiots' was too harsh of me. It just makes me sad to see young people leaving the country.

maccard 11y ago
> London, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris... are all way, way more expensive than Dublin. From a brief google, Tokyo looks comparable to Dublin, but the others, yes. However, I wouldn't take a job for 30k living in any of those cities either, that's just nuts. However, it is absolutely possible to get jobs in places where your ratio of cost of living to salary is better than it is in Dublin, even before you factor in how much more you would take home before you end up paying the nuts VAT rates, PAYE, PRSI, USC charges that push you into almost 53% tax at 32k euro. I moved to Edinburgh when I graduated, and forgetting about my salary, my rent is a good 300 euro less a month, my transport bills are lower, I live in a nicer flat than I did before, and general costs of living are lower than they were in Dublin. I have more disposable income than I would have had on the same salary, and the ballpark offers that I have received here are the same as, if not better than home. The reddit thread in [1] has plenty of people who came out at over 80k euro starting salaries. I'm not saying that everyone can get it, but there are some available. http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1oiwc2/new_grads_2013_what_was_your_offer_hard_numbers/ http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1oiwc2/ne...

by reitoei 11y ago

maccard 11y ago

> London, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris... are all way, way more expensive than Dublin. From a brief google, Tokyo looks comparable to Dublin, but the others, yes. However, I wouldn't take a job for 30k living in any of those cities either, that's just nuts. However, it is absolutely possible to get jobs in places where your ratio of cost of living to salary is better than it is in Dublin, even before you factor in how much more you would take home before you end up paying the nuts VAT rates, PAYE, PRSI, USC charges that push you into almost 53% tax at 32k euro. I moved to Edinburgh when I graduated, and forgetting about my salary, my rent is a good 300 euro less a month, my transport bills are lower, I live in a nicer flat than I did before, and general costs of living are lower than they were in Dublin. I have more disposable income than I would have had on the same salary, and the ballpark offers that I have received here are the same as, if not better than home. The reddit thread in [1] has plenty of people who came out at over 80k euro starting salaries. I'm not saying that everyone can get it, but there are some available. http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1oiwc2/new_grads_2013_what_was_your_offer_hard_numbers/ http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1oiwc2/ne...