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Hi ana Thanks a lot for the input. In the US we have a good family life balance, we work hard but also have enough time for our activities like going to gym, spending time with our son and keep weekends work free as far as possible. Our life style is normal in the US and not extravagant but it seems ...

[QUOTE=Chakraan;479850]IMO, it is not worth the trouble and the risk to relocate for two years. When you start to settle down there in SG, then again you have to start packing and return to USA. In Singapore, either you hate it or love it. Workaholic people loves Singapore and survive there longer ...

[QUOTE=chicago2i2011;479830] Transferred everything into my IRA which I use for active trading. [/QUOTE]

Since you are leaving 401k as it is, why would you transfer anything else into IRA? may be I am missing something here

[QUOTE=Chakraan;479827]I don't want to confuse you any further but why do you want to go to Singapore from US life style? Is your company asking you to go there?[/QUOTE] We are considering this opportunity primarily because of Singapore's closeness to India, so we can make more trips to India, other ...

Good diary, glad that things are falling in place for you. Are you planning on leaving any assets in US or liquidating them all? e.g.401k and Real Estate?

Thanks Chakraan for all your inputs. The offer is firm now at 17.7k. We have one more week to make the decision. We are leaning towards Singapore but wife is a bit concerned about her career as she may not find a job that has a good work life balance even though she will be taking a good pay cut. My ...

[QUOTE=Chakraan;478071]You are a expensive man! Replied in blue.[/QUOTE]

Thanks a lot..makes me feel much better now..Also, what are typical salaries for a senior .NET developer with about 10 years of experience? (this is for my wife who is interested to continue working)

[QUOTE=ana;270622]Thanks avasanth for a very useful post again. The verbal offer came along. We are getting the same US salary over there. its coming to about 15K sgd per month ( The bonus is extra ). Does that seem to be a good offer? If we live in good condo and send 2 kids to NPS ( Indian school ...

Hi All, Looking for insights into Deloitte Consulting - Senior Manager (Portals, Enterprise content Management, BI domain) - based out Washington DC. Current Profile: Senior Manager at a major consulting firm 1. Salary Range 2. What are the prospects to become a partner for an experienced hire vs ...

Having done several hiring in the US (from Intern to team lead level) for my teams, I have seen wide ranges in the salaries for same # of years of experience. I also participate in several salary surveys (industry, vendors like MSFT, Oracle etc) and get to see some of their aggregated results. Based ...