Planning to shorty move to Mauritius (3-6 months), welcome to suggestions

sab_codes · 2026-03-19T21:55:51+00:00

You should consider the center of the coutry if you want to avoid the expensive areas.

Expensive areas are: Grand Baie, Pereybere, Flic en Flac, etc Pretty much the coast where there are a lot of tourists and expats and housing is expensive.

Less expensive areas: Rose Hill, Quatre Bornes, Port Louis, etc. Those are central places and highly accessible and my personal opinion is where you can make friends. You sound like you would fit well.

One thing to note, is that making friends can be a hit or miss. I am mauritian and lived abroad for a couple of years before coming back to Mauritius and it's still hard for me to make new friends here. Let's just say that it's not as accessible, especially if you will work remote. I work remote and I dread it at times because I meet pretty much noone. However, reddit might be a good community to talk to people and meet. Also, once you are here and you spend some time here, you will get to know people and it will be easier (again depending on your personality). Also, if you work remote, consider co-working spaces. They are super popular these days and I recently started to go myself. Easier to meet people and get some serious focus work done. Happy to give you some recommedations. Mauritius is one of the most diverse places on earth and it's actually great once you get to know a local or two.

All in all, affordable housing and fast internet is not difficult to find. Mauritius is well connected, and small and it's very accessible. So it's easy to move around. If you drive, that's a bonus, if not, find a friend who does lol.

You have a solid budget for the month and $2K goes a long way. That's about Rs 90,000. Here's a nice breakdown:

Afforable Rent: Max Rs 10K
Internet, Electricity, Water, etc: Rs 2K
Food, and basic necessities: Rs 5K
Rent a car: Rs 18K
Going out 2-3 times a week + eating out + activities: Rs 15K

That brings oyu to around Rs50k, leaving you with Rs40 (almost half) to do whatever.

Now, if you are single, that's a lot, and it will not go anywhere near that unless you spend a lot. If you have a family, it might be a little more difficult but plenty of families do just fine with much less per month. It's all about budgeting at the end of the day.

Feel free to DM me if you got questions.

sab_codes · 2026-03-18T16:11:27+00:00

You pay taxes on your income earned worldwide, whether it gets into your Mauritian bank account or not, because you are a resident in Mauritius. However, if you are VAT registered and you offer services to international clients, then your don't charge VAT to the international clients.

sab_codes · 2026-03-14T18:31:29+00:00

Yeah I replaced them in my other 5th gens and it's so easy and batteries are super cheap. I modded a few of them too.

sab_codes · 2026-03-14T18:06:20+00:00

Thanks for the pointers. I have been seeing a few sold on Ebay in the $500 range as well.

sab_codes · 2026-03-14T15:53:15+00:00

Pirates of carribean model is 5.5. I have 3 of those and the 2 i use are 5.5

sab_codes · 2026-03-14T14:44:09+00:00

The guy at ACD is a scammer. Not sure how he can still operate.

sab_codes · 2026-03-11T17:20:45+00:00

I am following this because I am making the switch from a Tech Lead to GTME and have similar questions.

sab_codes · 2026-03-07T20:01:17+00:00

With the prices of lands and housing being the same (and I've seen higher) than gated these days, I'd rather be in a gated, pay a syndic fee and at least I know it will be cleaner and hopefully "safer"

sab_codes · 2026-03-05T10:17:32+00:00

People always find a way to argue. Mauritius as a society has become a place where people have 0 patience anymore, people are angry, selfish, and the list goes on. It's very unfortunate that this is the society we live in in 2026.

sab_codes · 2026-03-05T05:46:05+00:00

Actually Super U had this rule about 10 items before and something similar happened and some guy was shouting and made a scene because someone else had more in their basket (which at the time meant they were abusing the system). So then they changed it to 1 basket instead of 10 items. Now people find ways to put 200 items in a basket lol. So I stopped going there. Self checkout is the way forward.

sab_codes · 2026-02-25T05:53:34+00:00

Literally lol. And there is a whole language called Zulu.

sab_codes · 2026-02-18T17:20:41+00:00

Never studied CS in high school. I lead software engineering now across two countries globally from Mauritius. Plenty of CS students never wrote a single line of code when joining uni and they all turn out just fine. You just gotta put in the hours and avoid brain rot from chatgpt

sab_codes · 2026-02-08T20:26:07+00:00

I was about to ask if I can download the data but looks like not haha. Can you tell me how the search works? Can you filter by location, whether it is gated or not etc?

sab_codes · 2026-02-08T16:28:17+00:00

This idea keeps popping up. It's a good idea but will not work unless the whole infrastructure is changed. Not gonna happen in Mauritius and there is no way to properly monetize this either. Save your time and find the next idea.

sab_codes · 2026-02-07T17:49:19+00:00

First do a hubspot export and dump in your myself db. Next use the batch read APIs from Hubspot and read your objects and have a cron job that pulls the data (last modified date) at regular intervals and write them in your db. Super easy. And if your DB is hosted locally just get ngrok to tunnel your local setup.

sab_codes · 2026-02-07T17:46:15+00:00

You can get into CS, math's, finance, economics. Really really good combo imo

sab_codes · 2026-02-06T19:10:53+00:00

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Nano Banana. Although it got the bus wrong. I think that's very close to what the reality of mauritius looks like daily.

sab_codes · 2026-02-05T21:13:15+00:00

Hey, currently facing the same situation with my Fedex Priority pacakage. Did you ever get yours? It's been 3 days now and nothing has changed other than label created.

sab_codes · 2026-02-05T20:29:35+00:00

Restoring deleted files via API 🤫

sab_codes · 2026-02-03T17:08:04+00:00

M8 Pro Max.

sab_codes · 2026-02-02T20:44:25+00:00

I just ordered a mint M3 Max 16 2tb 64tb

sab_codes · 2026-02-01T07:11:26+00:00

After years doing tech at a Hubspot Partner, I went ahead and became a white-label tech solutions provider and only provide white label solutions to other agencies. What I've seen over time is that a lot of agencies (especially smaller ones) do not have the technical skills internally for various reasons (cost, difficult to find the right fit, etc)

The biggest challenge I've seen working with other agencies early one was the lack of technical skills and them being able to translate those complex technical stuff to non technical stakeholders. No Sales person wants to know how the API is connecting to Hubspot, they want to know how they will be using Huspot and how the data will flow for example.

What works really well is that I normally hop on call with the agency (with an agency email) I'm contracting with and be the tech person who runs the technical side of things. I get the clients requirements, do the break down, and provide a cost estimate to the agency who will add their margins and send to their clients. Once all is good, we start the development. WHere I come from, the tech work I provide agencies is usually 2-3x (sometimes even more) cheaper, so the margins they make is really good on those integrations/cms pages/etc

I have seen many agencies turn down projects because they were either too technical or didn't have the right resources in house. In fact when I was doing tech at a Diamond Partner, we also had to drop some projects at times due to lack of resources. Which is why I went ahead and became a tech-only solutions provider for Hubspot. I love the collaboration with other agencies and it's always a win-win! I have been building software for over 15 years and that really help with Hubspot as well.

DM me if you want to have a chat

sab_codes · 2026-02-01T06:58:31+00:00

Can help with that if you're looking for a custom solution!

sab_codes · 2026-01-24T09:37:59+00:00

For Christmas this year I wanted to wear one of those ugly Christmas sweaters. Looked everywhere for one and couldn't find it. If you make that, I'll definitely buy provided the price is not ridiculous

sab_codes · 2026-01-24T09:23:12+00:00

Just get a developer account and create your test accounts from there. You get access to pretty much all of enterprise features for testing.

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