Jammydodger2016

Current UK salary is around 30k a year. Which is just over £1800 a month AFTER TAX and student loan deductions

Sure there is no tax in Qatar but im not fooling myself the cost of living is high so I need to make sure that after I pay my rent each month in Qatar i am still better off then I would have been in the UK. Which is why I need above 18KQAR a month. Make sense?

Jammydodger2016

Just like you are an awful comedian

jam25mack

Sure it does, however, you're essentially saying, I'm on 30K GBP p.a in the UK but i'm worth 75 K GBP p.a in Qatar....... Good luck with that!

They're already offering you nearly 19 k GBP (63%) a year more..... which TBH sounds generous, if not really enough for 2 to live on comfortably

Jammydodger2016

Its not enough to live on in Qatar from what i have been told by friends who are already out there thats what worries me the most.

jam25mack

I think several folk on here have told you that too..... so I'd listen or make sure you secure a job for your hubbie first.

Millhouse

A few apostrophes might get you a bit more each month.

Anyway, the job that you do generally gets a salary of around 20k/month, and you've concluded that's not going to be enough for you. I doubt you'll be able to ask for more just because you want it.

You wouldn't be able to ask your current employer for more just so that you can rent a more expensive house would you?

As it happens, 20k/ month is pretty good and would probably be enough (potentially with reasonable savings) but as you've concluded otherwise then it won't work.

We used to pay our Paralegals 20k (generally a smart Lebanese), and our PAs (the attractive western ones anyway) 25k.

DXBtoDOH

20k a month in Doha:

1-bedroom apartment in Sadd or Bin Mahmoud for 6.5k a month including all bills. Go for furnished and all inclusive apartments, there's loads around.

Uber/taxi: 1500 a month per person

We're up to 9.5k

You've got 10k to spare. 500/week groceries, 500/week each to play with. 1500 weekly. 6k a month.

End of month: 15.5k but round it up to 16k.

That leaves you with 4k potential savings at the end of each month.

Your partner finds a job paying even just 10k you'll be doing decently enough. a 20k job you'll be living the high life.

However, a significant problem does remain: it's *****ing Doha.

Jammydodger2016

Thank you for the break down. Maybe I am being a over ambitious after all.

Last questions:Instead of spending 1500 each on taxi/UBER would it not be easier to rent a car?

What is the best app or website to find accomodation?

DXBtoDOH

Rent a car = car rent (1500 min, closer to 2k more realistic) + petrol + speeding fines.

Then there's two of you.

Loads in Doha take uber/careem/taxis all the time and live without a car. I don't have a car and it's brilliant. Never need to worry about finding a parking place or queuing forever at the petrol stations or driving itself, which is terrible. Only about half my coworkers own a car and the rest taxi/uber it, and several even sold their cars because it wasn't worth it. Taxis/uber are so cheap here that it makes sense not to deal with having your own car.