i moved to auckland 7 yrs ago.... Got a job, but was an entry job, the salary was not as good as i was in singapore and was not commensurate with my skills and experience. It was okay as i tried to get more local experience and at the same time familiar with the country.
We have some savings brought from singapore and was able to invest in some properties. Bought a family home which we still live in now and 2 investment properties.
My son was born here last year at the government hospital. The after birth care was quiet good and free medical care till he is 16. My wife took a year off from work and finally decided not to go back.
Career wide, there is no much prospect. Received a lot of rejection letters for jobs that commensurate with my qualification but not my experience. So, i finally settled with the entry job at average income and with my wife's income, we were okay.
After my son was born, i decided to take time off and spend sometimes with him and rely soley on our rental / investment income and during these time i gave some thoughts to my future and our parents ( back home)
i am in my early 40s and would like to have another run with my career and it is difficult to settle in with entry job and not using much of my ability. i decided to head back to asia and to prepare myself, i took up a post graduate studies for self improving and to up date myself with current developments.
We will be selling our family home and with the proceeds to buy 2 more investment properties and ideally, would like to keep all our investment properties intake and let property manager to manage them. We still consider auckland as home, just that the carreer opportunity is not there and we don't want to spend our productive years on a retiring mode.
I don't know what future will hold, but i want to give myself and my family another run and to spend more time with my parents back home and let them spend more time with their grandson too.
Although i didn't achieve much in the last 7 yrs but i do learn a lot about life and to appreciate little things in life...
We have some savings brought from singapore and was able to invest in some properties. Bought a family home which we still live in now and 2 investment properties.
My son was born here last year at the government hospital. The after birth care was quiet good and free medical care till he is 16. My wife took a year off from work and finally decided not to go back.
Career wide, there is no much prospect. Received a lot of rejection letters for jobs that commensurate with my qualification but not my experience. So, i finally settled with the entry job at average income and with my wife's income, we were okay.
After my son was born, i decided to take time off and spend sometimes with him and rely soley on our rental / investment income and during these time i gave some thoughts to my future and our parents ( back home)
i am in my early 40s and would like to have another run with my career and it is difficult to settle in with entry job and not using much of my ability. i decided to head back to asia and to prepare myself, i took up a post graduate studies for self improving and to up date myself with current developments.
We will be selling our family home and with the proceeds to buy 2 more investment properties and ideally, would like to keep all our investment properties intake and let property manager to manage them. We still consider auckland as home, just that the carreer opportunity is not there and we don't want to spend our productive years on a retiring mode.
I don't know what future will hold, but i want to give myself and my family another run and to spend more time with my parents back home and let them spend more time with their grandson too.
Although i didn't achieve much in the last 7 yrs but i do learn a lot about life and to appreciate little things in life...
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