Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Places I would go live if they tripled my salary

Tyler, in his post about how (not?) to build a great university, said he wouldn't move to Saudi Arabia or Japan for triple his current salary. Me neither, but here are some places where I would go:

Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica, Belize, Panama, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal.

Lol, you guys can start lobbying people there and / or taking up a collection!!

16 comments:

Shawn said...

panama's a great place...check out my 'casco viejo' photos on facebook; it's one of the oldest parts of panama city, and really an incredible mix of old and new(er). Lots and lots of development going on there.

Anonymous said...

To which I'd add:

Turkey (well, Istanbul, anyway)
Hong Kong
Sweden
Belgium
UAE
South Korea

I can't say I'd do Germany, though.

Anonymous said...

You might want to rethink Portugal. Working at a public University (private Universities are somewhat of a national joke) would potentially yield from €3304 to €3825 (and that's the top teaching position, Professor Catedrático). Socialism ftw.
Guess the premium on the sunny Portuguese shores is perhaps a bit too steep for academic economists.

link: http://aeiou.expressoemprego.pt/scripts/indexpage.asp?headingID=4270

Anonymous said...

@anonymous: As I understand the assumption is that his current salary would be tripled. Somehow I doubt Angus makes less than 1300 Euros (~2000 USD).

@ prison rodeo: What's wrong with Germany? You wouldn't go there even if they tripled your salary? I'm honestly curious.

Angus said...

yes, the question was at triple my current salary. Mrs. A and I spend a couple weeks in Portugal a while back and really liked it.

BR I too am curious about the Germany thing. Although, I wouldn't do Belgium, Sweden, South Korea or UAE off your list and probably not Turkey either!!

Anonymous said...

The problem with Germany is that it's full of Germans.

fh said...

and what's wrong with Germans?

Angus said...

whoa, dude. Germans are cool. I like them. I almost took a chaired professor job in Germany once, in Konstanz.

Anonymous said...

@cristoph:
Yes, and that's exactly why Portugal isn't a good option, as the wage structure in public universities won't change anytime soon. A baseline gross income of about 54000 € a year at the top of your game isn't that much of an incentive to choose the poorer side of the peninsula.

Shawn said...

let's try again:

salary: given ([current salary]*3)
location: not given (x)

solve for x.

Angus said...

yes, anon's proposal has me taking a big pay cut. Academics don't earn much in Portugal. That's not what I am talking about though, as the others have intimated. The game is take my US salary, triple it and offer me that amount to live and work in a different country.

Anonymous said...

Porter got it right -- Germans scare the shit out of me.

OTOH, my spouse and I were talking ab0ut this over dinner, and both agreed that we'd take the deal in a second if it were in Dubai.

(And, yes, I find Arabs a lot less scary than Germans. YMMV.)

Anonymous said...

I don't actually have anything against Germans -- though they could lighten up a little.

Jeff H said...

As someone currently living in Germany, I find this anti-German discourse absolutely fascinating, if a bit vague.

After living on the Baltic Sea coast, I must say that it would take a lot of money to keep me in northern Europe. Too bloody depressing in winter.

Angus said...

Ya, Jeff I agree on both counts. I left all of Scandinavia off my list for basically that reason. Should I limit myself to Bavaria as well?

Jeff H said...

As much as I hate to fuel Bayerischer Egoismus, it really does have the most to offer of any one region. Konstanz is not too shabby either, though, from what I hear.

But maybe I’m too jaded right now to give an honest opinion—the weather in the north has been just awful for weeks. I can’t wait for sunny weather to warm my chilled bones.