Ah then we are only left with Greenland or Artic circle. Life there should be cheap, but some problems with warm weather and internet availability.
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Originally posted by 1wayman
Ah then we are only left with Greenland or Artic circle. Life there should be cheap, but some problems with warm weather and internet availability.
Guess you forgot to mention jobs availability, hospitals, schools, food and drinks, clubs, cinema, theaters, opera, stadiums, whore houses, drug dealers. And all else that makes living in a city a good living.
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Never believe anyone who says that living in Latvia is cheap. Of course we can survive with 1000$ in Riga, but that's not living.
For example, normal flat in Riga decent place will cost you 250 Ls + 100 Ls bills = 350 Ls = ~700$
Food is more expensive that Lithuania, Estonia and even Germany.
And there will be more problems living in Latvia witout speaking latvian language. Locals frequently will start fights, barmens and taxi drivers is another interesting story.
To sum it up -- avoid Latvia!
I was talking about minimum requirmants. The thread is like with how much we can live in some country because we don`t want to start a real job, for me. If you have own home you can live with 600$(of course not the life we want). But if you live in the country and have own home you can have really good life with 1000$ montly even less.
A whole pizza is about 7-8$ at average.
I have an apartment in Russia (St.-Petersburg) which is privatized, so no rent to pay, only bills and food. Food is cheap as hell compared to the rest of the world, and software/games are just dirt cheap, so it should be a very comfortable living. The nuisances are: I don't have all too many friends left there, I'm kind of accustomed to the high quality of European food and I like my streets safe at night. The biggest problem is I'm still the army. I'm still listed as Russian citizen, and if I show my face there again before I'm 28 (at which age I'm no longer to be recruited, unless voluntarily) I'll go linea recta into the ranks for 2 years. Overall, Russia's a beautiful country, but unless you're willing to make a load of adjustments (learning Russian for instance) it's not the right place to move to for your poker needs.
I was thinking about somewhere on the beach in southern Spain, or some nice warm island, but I have no idea how much life would cost there and what it would be like...
Originally posted by mishkagg
Originally posted by VirtuaGod
Brasil or eastern europe. Countries where u can have a good life for 500 usd a month!!WTF?!? At least in Bulgaria I get like $1300 per month and I do believe that's the minimum for a good life where you can afford stuff like movies, sports, car, gas, bills, clubs, trips and all that.
I'd say to the OP he's better off moving to a cheaper state, like maybe North Carolina. It was sooo good there!
Really? Never thought Eastern Europe was getting THAT expensive. Have to go to Brasil then 
Originally posted by VirtuaGod
Originally posted by mishkagg
Originally posted by VirtuaGod
Brasil or eastern europe. Countries where u can have a good life for 500 usd a month!!WTF?!? At least in Bulgaria I get like $1300 per month and I do believe that's the minimum for a good life where you can afford stuff like movies, sports, car, gas, bills, clubs, trips and all that.
I'd say to the OP he's better off moving to a cheaper state, like maybe North Carolina. It was sooo good there!
Really? Never thought Eastern Europe was getting THAT expensive. Have to go to Brasil then
Well here are my expenses for a month:
$150 for a rent cause my GF's paying 1/2 of it
$50 for power, water, phone bills
$20 for internet and cell phone
$150 for food for me only
$100-120 for gas. Sometimes more cause when the weather is good me and my gf like to travel around for a hike or something.
$50 for cat food (again that's 1/2 as my gf's paying the other half)
$50 for clothes and I'm never bothering to look for expensive clothes as I see no point in doing so but if one likes he can buy crap for like $30 for a t-shirt.
$100 for health insurance, social stuff and stuff like this
$150 for fun like movies, concerts, a club sometimes, a present for someone.
That makes it: 150 + 50 + 20 + 150 + 100-120 + 50 + 50 + 100 + 150 = $830. And that's with paying half the rent, half the bills for utilities and pet food. And when I need to go to the doctor, dentist, car mechanic and buy medicine and/or car parts it can bump with $300. And when a kid comes into play a year later? You've got to find out from where to get like $200 per month more.
Besides I've got friends that're capable of spending like $500 per person on a single night where they buy cocaine, lots of alcohol and decide to call a hooker or two. Back in the days I used to do that too and then I was broke, lol. I mean... Some people from Bulgaria might say I'm calculating unnecessary things but those above are the the things that for me define a somewhat normal middle class life. I can even add more - like a payment for a house and a payment for a nice car. A house would cost like at least $120000 and a car at around $10000.
As stated though in the country you can live with MUCH less like half of the money but you can't do even 1/3 of the things cause towns are so small and old-school that they don't have cinemas, have one club and 5 cafeterias and it's boring like hell.
So all in all Eastern Europe's right on the heels of Western European countries as far as cost of living goes. Not at the quality of life though...
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Cape Town.
Everything's cheap (relatively). It's the most beautiful city in the world. Lifestyle's awesome. Mountains, beach, etc.. You can probably get away with $1500 a month.
Unfortunately I'm not sure how easy it is to get a bank account if you're not south african. You could always withdraw to your home account and then use a debit/credit card attached to that...
Originally posted by PidKoker
This is soemthing I have been thinking about... because to live as a pro in a place like North America you would have to make something like ~$60,000 a year which works out to like $5,000 a month. I was just thinking if I were to move somewhere where it is not too difficult to move money from an online account to a bank account and get a very nice return because of the currency conversion.. What Country Would That Be?
how do you work out 60k/year and 5k/month?
it's easy if you don't make translation errors (it sounds weird if you translate it in dutch literaly)