India, March 16 -- A 27-year-old Indian software engineer says relocating from Bengaluru to Dublin has significantly improved his quality of life, even though living in the European city comes with a high cost of living.

Suras Nayak, who works as a software development engineer at Amazon, moved to Ireland in March 2025 after securing an internal transfer within the company. He told CNBC Make It that he earns an annual compensation of about 122,428 euros (approximately Rs.1.3 crore), nearly double the roughly Rs.68 lakh he previously earned while working in India.

Nayak said he had long dreamed of living abroad. "When I was growing up, I always had this idea somewhere behind my head that I always wanted to move abroad, but I was a little...