Origio
Compare salaries, rent, tax and visas across 90+ cities
187 followers
Compare salaries, rent, tax and visas across 90+ cities
187 followers
Origio helps professionals compare 90+ cities before moving abroad. See salary after tax, rent, monthly costs, visa routes and side-by-side city comparisons. Built for people deciding where life and income work best.
Origio
Hey PH 👋
I built Origio because I was genuinely trying to figure out if moving abroad made financial sense for me and couldn't find anything useful. Numbeo gives you generic city data. Nomad List tells you about the coffee shops. Neither of them tell you what you'd actually take home on your salary after local tax, or whether your passport makes the visa process a nightmare.
So I just built it myself.
You answer 8 questions about your job, passport, rent budget and what you actually care about. Origio scores 25 countries and gives you a personalised breakdown salary after tax, visa routes for your nationality, cost of living, safety and quality of life scores.
Free tier shows your top 3 matches. Pro is €19.99 one time, no subscription, unlocks all 25 countries plus a salary calculator, full visa checklist and a 3 country comparison.
Would genuinely love feedback especially from anyone who has actually been through the whole "which country do I even move to" research rabbit hole.
RescueTime
@shlokmestry I love that you built this! Congratulations! I have been recently looking for something just like this. I just gave it a try, and it's very interesting. I want to dive into a bit more. I put in my rental budget, and it still gave me a higher amount, so very interested to see if maybe one of my other selections made that void.
Origio
@bianca_landis2 hey Bianca! Thanks for trying it out.
Yeah, that's a fair catch. The rental budget is meant to filter out countries where even the cheapest rent would blow your budget but what's probably happening is you're seeing countries where the average rent is higher than your budget, but salaries are so good that you'd still have disposable income left over after rent.
So the algorithm isn't actually ignoring your budget constraint it's saying "yes, rent is pricey, but you'd earn enough that it's still affordable." But I can see why that's confusing and feels like the budget got violated.
What I'm working on now is being way more explicit about this in the results. Like showing you:
Your monthly take-home after rent
Disposable income left over
A clearer breakdown of whether a country actually fits your financial constraints or not
So you'll immediately see: "rent is €1500 but you'd take home €4200 after tax" instead of just a ranking that feels arbitrary.
What was your rental budget, and which countries did it suggest? I'd love to see if there's actually a mismatch or if it's just the communication breaking down.
've looked at numbeo before and the numbers never felt real because they don't account for your actual nationality or visa situation. how often does the tax data get updated though, because tax laws change fast and outdated numbers would make the whole comparison unreliable
Origio
@tina_chhabra really fair point. tax data is the thing I'm most paranoid about getting wrong. I review it every 3 months and flag anything that's changed like income tax brackets, social security rates, special regimes like Portugal's NHR or Germany's threshold shifts. the country pages show a last verified date so you always know how fresh the numbers are.
that said I won't pretend it's real time. it's research grade not accountant grade. the goal is to tell you Germany takes roughly 40% vs Portugal 28% for your bracket accurately enough to make the comparison meaningful, not to file your tax return with it.
Hi Shlok, interesting idea. I've been many times thinking of moving elsewhere :) I got literally curious about the result.
I've tried the tool twice. Without and with account and both time I got at the end "session expired" with no result :(
Origio
@evitam hey Eva! Sorry about that that's frustrating.
We had a session bug affecting a small number of users that was causing to timeout before generating results. Just fixed it on our end.
Give it another shot and let me know if you hit any issues. If it happens again, shoot me a message and I'll debug it directly.
Thanks for being patient :)
Text2Query
This looks great. I have moved countries a couple of times, and finding updated and reliable info likt this is a pain. Where I live in Mexico, a lot of people come from abroad. I can see they could find it useful. One little thing: I tried Mexico in the search countries and Mexico did not appear :(
Origio
@jo_rangel hey! Yeah, Mexico's definitely missing and I get why that's frustrating expats there are constantly asking these exact questions.
Honestly, we're starting with 25 countries because we want the data to actually be useful, not just throw up a bunch of numbers and hope they're right. Cost of living, salaries, visa stuff it changes fast and most sites either don't update or just copy-paste from each other. Didn't want to do that.
Mexico's 100% on the list though. We're just making sure we get it right first proper salary data from local sources, current visa requirements, all that. Once we nail the core countries, we'll expand properly.
In the meantime, you can still use stuff like the Portugal or USA pages to get a sense of how it works. But yeah, Mexico's coming soon.
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it ;)
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It looks interesting. But it didn't show me results. I can see only the black screen :(
Origio
@busmark_w_nika hi Nika, there was a bug that was causing issues for a few users. We’ve fixed it now, and it should work well. Thanks for trying Origio :)