I've been seeing job openings that offer relocation support. At my level (Mid Software QA Engineer), I see ¥4M up gross annual salaries being offered in these job ads and I'm not sure if it would be enough to support a family of 3.
Some important points:
– My husband will also be looking for a job (we have the same job, he's at senior level), but we'll both apply at the same time and see which one of us gets an offer to relocate first, then we'll go with that. The other one will just look for a job once we get there (assuming our visa will allow that).
– We have a 3-month old baby, and in the future we're planning to send him to an international school.
– Most of the job ads are remote work and flextime so I'm hoping we can still manage to take care of the baby, but I'm also assuming we'll have to avail of daycare sometimes.
– Our Japanese skill is very basic, we can understand conversations, can read hiragana, katakana and a few kanji, but probably not enough to reach NLPT 5. The job ads we're applying for do not require Japanese language but we're still planning to study seriously once we get there.
We're not looking to live in a city or expensive place, but a simple place in the suburbs with sufficient space for a growing baby to play in would be nice. Would appreciate any tips or advice. Thank you 🙇♀️
by MissCrumpleb0ttom