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I'm looking to move to another country. It's difficult to know if a job pays well enough for me to maintain the same standard of living I currently have.
Is there an easy way to compare the Cost of Living in different countries to determine where I'll get the most for each job offer?
Numbeo's comparison site is usually useful, and it already shows a lot of aspects you have to consider when moving between countries. Here is an example comparing Budapest, Hungary with London, UK.
It doesn't check everything though, as there might be huge gaps between what is offered by a government in one country for free, that will cost you a lot of money in another. Good example is when comparing most EU countries with the USA, as while taxes are lower, and pays are somewhat higher in the USA, you have to take a lot of extra, long-term expenses into account (like health care)
So you have to check two things: the basic, more visible expenses and the long-term, not so visible expenses. You also have to take the taxing into consideration, as you'll only have your take-home-pay to pay for these.
The basic expenses you have to check:
You also have to think about long-term expenses, like:
SztupY's answer is excellent, but on slightly lighter note I'll point out that there's the Big Mac Index (that's from Wikipedia, here's the Economist page but you may need a subscription for to really drill down into the details) if you want to get a quick and dirty idea of comparative prices in different countries.
Use at your own risk, don't necessarily take this too seriously.
