For those who stayed abroad long term, did you ever stop renting and buy?
Third year in an international post and the housing allowance has quietly become the thing that decides everything. It is comfortable right up until you notice you are paying down someone else's mortgage and you have nothing at all if the contract is not renewed. Two colleagues bought in their fourth year, one locally and one somewhere else entirely because he never intended to retire where he teaches. Both say the paperwork was the easy part and that the hard part was deciding where. For those of you who have been out long enough to make that call: did you buy where you teach, or somewhere you actually want to end up, and how did you work out whether it made sense on the numbers rather than the feeling? I have been going through https://global-property.investments/ mostly to understand what the second option would actually cost.
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