Move to Australia or stay in EU
Hello !
We're a couple living and working in Paris, both in CS, with 7-8 YOE. We both earn around 70k€ gross.
My SO got an offer to move to Sydney for 150k $ (Australian dollars) gross. The company would help us both to get visas, and expect us to move in the upcoming months.
We did the math and if I'm able to find a similar offer, it would be quite a raise from our European salaries (around 45k € net, or 50% increase).
Obviously we would also have more expenses. We read that rent prices in Sydney are through the roof, as foreigners we will have to pay for a private health insurance and moving there isn't cheap (depending on how much stuff we want to bring). We would also lose some paid leave days (20 in Australia, 35 in France).
On the other hand, my SO could try and leverage that offer to get a raise in their current job. There's no guarantee but in the best case scenario, they could get a 10k€ gross raise. More realistically it would be around 5-6k€.
Now we really like our current situation. Life in Paris is good, we can go on our day-to-day life without a car (my SO doesn't drive) and move around Europe for small trips easily. While the quality of life seems great in Australia, we are a bit afraid of big distances and less time to travel. And obviously losing friends and family and having to create a new social circle from scratch. But still the money seems great !
What would you do in our situation?