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About the taxes thing -- you can subtract foreign taxes that you pay from your American tax bill, and you also get an exemption on your first $100,000 of earnings, so it really only affects you if you're living in a low-tax-rate country AND making a six-figure salary in USD.

(I'm an American living abroad so I deal with this every year.)

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Yes. Specifically for Singapore those salaries are easy to achieve for techies, and sort of the point of living here as a foreigner.

Otherwise, you are probably better off in a lower cost place.

I assume you still have to do your American taxes, even if just to show that you didn't hit the threshold?

Yeah you still have to file your US taxes

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