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apartment exchange/ travel to Singapore/ KL
Hi International Nesties! I am a bumpie who loves living vicariously through your adventures while planning my own 
So I really want to move to Amsterdam, but think we may need to do Asia en route. I am dragging DH and our son to Singapore to have a look-see because I keep hearing great things about living there with a family.
1. What is a good site for posting apartment exchanges? Trying to exchange Portland, OR for Singapore in September. Kind of random? Maybe.
2. Any of you in Singapore or Kuala Lumpur want to have a play date?
3. Any of you CPAs or work overseas in Accounting or Logistics? I have questions.
I have been scheming for too long, DH is about to get a secondary degree in Accounting and be eligible to sit for the CPA exams in December. He currently works for a logistics company. 2 career paths that fit the global market. I am researching possibilities to get his letters while working overseas, so we don't have to put the move of YET another year. Thank you ladies!!
(on a side note- this used to be a picture of my son down below, but mysteriously switched to this lady, who is so cute, I cannot replace her)
Re: apartment exchange/ travel to Singapore/ KL
I'm not much help. But I'm having a good laugh at the picture. Apparently occasionally the tinypic URL get's reused by somebody else.
Good luck.
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I am confused, are you looking to do a short term holiday house swap? Or move abroad to work?
If it's the former, maybe try VRBO? Or Google to find different sites, there's got to be a million different house swapping sites. If it's the latter you (or your H) are a million jillion times better off getting a job first, then transfer abroad. Personally I've never known anyone who got hired for a position in a country where they don't have the right to live/work.
I don't know where you keep hearing "great things" about living in Singapore but I've repeatedly heard that it's possibly the worst work/life balance on the planet. 80 hour weeks are the norm, 2 weeks vacation per year. Yikes!
Ditto the first part, but as for the second, everyone I know who lives in Sing absolutely loves it. I don't know if it's just the industry they're in, but it does have the reputation of being the cushiest/easiest expat assignment there is.
I know a few people who have lived there and then were sent somewhere in Europe and couldn't take Europe after living in Sing.
I am totally shocked to hear this about Singapore!
Must be the industry, for sure.
I've heard China ex-pats (who transferred from Singapore) call it "McAsia." I'm sure the working hours vary by company/industry, but outside of work it definitely has a reputation for being an easy gig.
I live in Singapore. I don't know that I can answer your questions about an apartment exchange, but I can tell you that Sinagpore is an easy place to live and to acclimate to. There is a large expat community, good mass transportion and little to no language barrier. It is also quite Western in many ways.
We are here for my husband's job. I can tell you at his company that Singapore tends to be an assignment that people jump at and is considered quite cushy.
Let me know if you'll be visiting and would like to meet up.
So I am reading- it may be hard for him to get a job there? He has 7 years at world headquarters of a logistics company (will be 8 by the time we move). Amazing references. He is getting his degree in Accounting in December. Are we better off staying here to work one more year so he can be a CPA when we move, or can we look for jobs now? He ideally wants to do tax. We live in Portland, OR and have been here for 10 years and want to try somewhere a little more fast-paced, more of a booming economy.
I can message some of you privately as well, but we don't really have a mentor and are trying to figure out this international move. Plus I want to have #2 and we need domestic help
With out having to move back to the South where I grew up.
THANK YOU LADIES!!