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Old 26th September 2008 | 07:18
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Wizofoz
 
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From: Boldly going where no split infinitive has gone before..
Nope.

If any of the above paid the same for a based job as they do in the gulf (lets say salary+ housing+ education) it would add up to a reasonably competitive, but by no means first rate, package in todays (pretty dire) market.

Now pay tax (47% in Aus), private health, accommodation, rates, GST ( or VAT or whatever!!) and that grass gets brown real quick.

What a basing offer WOULD do is make it a virtual certainty that I'd work for EK (or whoever) till retirement- get the finances sorted and take the basing some time in the future, when I can afford to take the hit in the hip-pocket.

I'd rather be well paid and living in Australia than well paid and living in Dubai, but just scraping by is no fun anywhere.
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