Moving from sg to hk

Moving from sg to hk


Me and my wife have traveled to hk several times for the last 2 yrs and we've sort off love it really there that we've decided to try moving to hk.


Now i'm in the brink of landing a job as a sr. network Engr. (6yrs exp- currently working in a global bank here in sg) in hk and offered a salary of 45k hkd, All in.


Now is this enough for us to transfer our simple lifestyle from sg to hk?


Please we do need your advise.


Our background here in sg:

Couple no kids late 20's

Combined, we earn only 8k sgd - 48k hkd /m

Our current lifestyle allows us to save about 3.5-4ksgd / 21-24k hkd per month. We normally go out eat in simple restos 3-4x a week the rest normally have home cook meals. We pay 1.2k for rent on a small flat. We do travel about 2-3x a yr on short not so expensive travels and goes on a night out maybe once a week.


There in hk, we are willing to move on a slightly smaller flat, eat on normal street side restos because we love the local food there but still continue on with our normal lifestyle and simple travels within the region and still manage to save money same as we do here, maybe slightly lower.


Is this salary enough? Normal as per my field and experience? Because partly it might be that i'll be the only one working once we are there for a few months to a yr maybe as my wife's current career might not be in demand in hk.


Ive search the forum and was able to more or less get the estimate of our monthly utilities and food expenses but are these roughly correct?

1. Electricity & water - 600 to 700 hkd

2. Mobile phone w data, internet, cable - 1000 hkd

3. Monthly food allowance - 6000hkd

4. Rent only upto - 12k hkd

5. Transpo + occ night out and other stuff solely depends but hopefully not exceeding - 5000 hkd


For the sake of the adventure, more action as compare to sg and love of hk itself would you also like to move from here to there? Or we'll just burden ourselves financially because of the living costs in hk? Thanks in advance!

Hi sg,


You got the numbers quite ok ...... if you are not the spenddrift type then its ok .....

but not sure if you can get used to even smaller apmt ....


If you are excited abt moving to a new city with new experiences, then go for it ...... and look for the positives.

Thanks for the feedback guys,


hi ken,

Your right, our saving might not be the same but the hopes of my wife getting a job as well in time might suffice the savings that we would loose at first. I'll take note of the location that we could look at.



hi my, I sure do hope we can get used to it, took some time for me to get used to smaller house here in SG from back home. One good thing though is my wife's quite positive about a smaller place because cleaning would be easier. :)

good point Wob, I guess what made us decide that we want to move to HK is that i feel that there is more for us to do, see and encounter. I can't take anything away from SG, it's a very nice, clean safe place but having to do the same thing for a number of years is taking its toll. :)

i would add, if you plan to have children, that far more people are moving in the opposite direction due to the air quality here. it really is a hazard to childrens health to give birth and raise them in Hong Kong.

Another thing that led us at first to move to HK is that we decided not to have children for a few more years, me and my wife just got married about 2 yrs ago and thinks we've got a few more yrs that we can enjoy by ourselves :)


With regards to how long, that is really uncertain i guess it depends, but initial plans is for the next 3-4 years. I'd still consider those points about negotiating more from the salary and the position itself. I do know its a stiff competition between IT guys even for the number of experience that i have specially within the region.thanks again