A couple of days ago, while browsing the internet blog posts, i saw a blog entry relating to FILIPINOS moving toSingapore to work. Entitled, the-best-filipino-software-developers-are-headed-for-singapore. and can-pinoy-software-companies-stop-the-exodus-to-singapore. , the excerpt talks about mass exodus of Filipino IT Professionals to Singapore. Though i wasnt surprised on the blog saying most of the IT professionals are moving to that direction, the blog was posted early 3rd quarter of last year - 2007 . Indeed, this issue has been there for quite sometime now and has been around for years already not just in singapore but also exodus of nurses and engineers to US and European countries where money pay is much way better! I knew a lot of good friends now who also work in singapore. I remember an old college classmate who is a Microsoft evangelist earns now a whopping $5000/month or a P150,000 ($5000 * Php30) per month for a multinational British Bank. With that still excluding other company perks, medical and leave credits. More than a dozen of my other friends and former officemates are already in Singapore too with starting salaries in the range of Php100,000 and above. Who doesnt want that either? But thinking all the fuss around in my head, i started to rekindle and take time to research. How much is the cost of living in singapore? What is it in singapore what makes it a sought after country to work for? What makes singapore a best place for professionals anyway? Lets have a brief retrospect.... Read More

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