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Old 3rd Sep 2017, 17:35
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harry the cod
 
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If you're not a troll and this is a serious question, you need to provide more details. What job for a starter, what's your starting salary and what Company. Is it with or without accommodation and what is the allowance. A lot will also depend on what your 'convenient' lifestyle entails but saving 45-50% in Dubai, even on a Captain's salary, is somewhat optimistic. If you're married with several kids and you're the only income provider, it will be tight on an F/O's salary. And without wishing to sound like a knob, our gardener sends around 60% of his salary home each month and lives on the rest, in this case being 400dhs a month! It's all relative.

The fact that you can save what you do, living in a high cost Country like Switzerland, would suggest to me you're better off where you are. It's only getting worse here, especially with VAT coming.

Harry

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