Until the home country or any of the visiting countries, fiscal department wakes up and asks where your country of residence is.

There is fiscal exemption for non residence but the waiver apply when there is one somewhere due to either lenght of stay or main center of life.

The likelihood to be caught are small but be wary that those type of attitude may bite back at some stage (difficulty ih every day life things as no tax return forms, impossibility to get a loan (need tax forms and some records).

Mind, we, french do not have the monopoly of this kind of useless stereotype and stupid comments. I stopped counting the one I got in UK and Australia. The third universal things after death and tax is meeting idiots.

Piece of advice: sell the furniture in Australia whenever it’s not something of high value / personal story, especially large shelves, sofa.

There is a difference in room size and house/at lay out, which may make adapting furniture difficult.

Wish I would have done that in my last relocation.

Same petty details, but electrical plugs don’t match, and while some can have their plug change easily, it end up being costly in plug converter.

Do you move permanently or just for study ?

The dog will have some water and food on the crate and during layover , he will be checked by staff, water and food refil in the crate. Some airline if time allow may let you see it during layover.

The paperwork and freight cost are expansive.

If you go for a couple of year, consider temporary rehoming.

Ask the hr of the company which offer the post. It’s their job to answer that and not reddit community.

He can apply for a spouse visa, long sejour, which also authorised him to work.

Seem far fetch. What are the base ?

Malaysia is a country with higher cost of life than Thailand and yet, the expat cost is lower ? The value in Brunei is totally off too.

Australia, I lived there with way lower budget.

Figure is also on the high side for France.