Mas RDP,
ya dimana-mana sama kejadiannya. Di jakartapun juga kayak gitu. Tahu kalau
yang ngontrak orang oil co, pasti harganya dinaikkan. Apalagi kalau cari
rumahnya bawa mobil bagus. Nggak beda kalau beli pecel lele di pinggir jalan,
kalau naik mobil harganya beda dengan yg jalan kaki :-)))
fw
Rovicky Dwi Putrohari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hal yang sama dengan KL. Harga sewa apartment meningkat tajam setelah
banyak agent2 rumah yang tahu jatah housing dari Ptnas. Bagi yg ga
dapet uang rumah tentunyaa sangat kerepotan (spt saya dulu) . Harga
sewa ini juga naik lagi ketika tunjangan rumah naik, apalgi housing
ini tunjangan dalam espenses max. Hargapun mendekati angka2 itu juga.
Housing sbg expenses yg harus di klaim ini memang akan memberikan
keuntungan di host country. Dalam artian devisanya tidak keluar. Ngga
enaknya buat expat ya seolah2 lifestyle ga berubah walopun angkanya
naik.
Untuk GG expat banyak yg rumahnya disediakan oleh persh. Shg kenaikan
ditanggung pesrh, tetapi kenaikan inflasi ya dirasakan semuanya.
Salam
Rdp
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Sekedar info buat yang berniat jadi legiun asing chapter TimTeng.
Cheers Oki --- Higher Rents, Fewer Raises, Expats Save Little
Money M. Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News RIYADH, 4 January 2007 —
Rising re nt prices and other cost-of-living factors have led one
study to conclude that 23 percent of expatriates living in Saudi
Arabia are unable to save any money. According to the study titled
Pay, Inflation and Mobility in the Gulf by GulfTalent.com, one of
the region's leading recruitment companies, the highest rate of
foreign non-savers in the Gulf region is in the United Arab Emirates
(UAE), at 43 percent. The survey is based on interviews of 18,000
professionals, including 1,000 nationals and 6,000 expatriates living
in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and 11,000
expatriates based outside the Gulf region but with an interest in
relocating to the region. The conclusion that more foreign workers in
the region are unable to grow personal savings comes at a time of
robust economic growth driven largely by record-high oil prices and a
large influx of foreign investment. The study says that the financial
attraction of the region is rapidly diminishing, particularly in the
UAE and Qatar, thanks to a quick increase in the cost of housing. The
study estimates that in 2006 the average rent in Qatar consumed a
third of personal income, while in the UAE it absorbed 30 percent.
Saudi Arabia is still relatively low in terms of cost of housing at
19 percent. Rents in Saudi cities are also less than half of those
seen in Dubai and Doha, said the survey. Seven percent of the
UAE-based expatriates said that their salaries do not even cover
their living costs, forcing them to borrow, it added. While the cost
of renting in the Kingdom is relatively low, it also reports one of
the lowest rates of salary increases last year, 6.5 percent, only
barely above the worst rate, Bahrain, at 6.4 percent. The average for
the region was between 7 and 8 percent, led by Qatar, 11.1 percent,
and the UAE at 10.3 percent. Seventy-three percent of those surveyed
said that they prefer to work in the UAE despite the high cost of
living. Six percent of those surveyed that work in the region said
they plan to leave by the end of the year. Saudi Arabia is strongly
seeing a resurgence of interest as the security situation stabilizes
and salaries rise at well above the inflation rate, said the
portal's study. Referring to the cost of living in the region, the
survey said that the Kingdom continues to enjoy low inflation, while
the rates of inflation in Qatar and the UAE stand at higher levels.
The report, which analyzed cost of living and employment patterns,
said that the expatriates in Qatar make up 80 percent of the
country's population, compared to 83 percent in Qatar, 80 percent in
the UAE, 53 percent in Kuwait 34 percent in Bahrain and 19 percent in
Oman. Saudi Arabia's documented foreign population is 21 percent of
the total, but they make up 47 percent of the workforce due to the
high unemployment rate of Saudi nationals. The study also found
employers in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman have difficulty
attracting professionals in sufficient numbers and many are losing
existing staff to the UAE. The regional dominance of the UAE as a
destination for world-class talent has become a key factor in many
multinationals' decision on where to locate their regional
headquarters, said the survey, estimating that 52 percent of the
expatriates working in Saudi Arabia are seeking jobs in other Gulf
states. A small portion, which includes many Indians, were also said
to be returning to their home countries because of higher costs of
living in the region and better opportunities at home. The report
states a small portion of European expatriates are also returning as
the weakness of the US dollar had sharply reduced the attractiveness
of Gulf salaries against the euro and
