Lima, Peru on the upscale side of town (Miraflores)
Rent $500 for a nice aptmnt near everything.
Food from a $2 "menu" meal on the street (soup, main dish , desert and drink) to $50 on sushi with drinks at a fancy place.
3G unlimited Internet $50/month
~ 4Mbps (so they claim) cable $50/month
Taxi anywhere in town anything you could possibly need for hardware hacks (cooling stuff, routers, antennas, mods, laptop repair etc, etc) (Plus on the back door side you can find any software you can think of for $3 password hack included)
Weather from 11C on the bitter winter to 30C in the worst part of the summer.
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#42Australia in AUD (about the same as USD these days): One bedroom rent in Sydney: $1200/month (EDIT: increased the rent based on comments) Food: $400 Wages:$60K-120K/year (gross) Internet:$50/month Phone: $50/month Bus ticket: $3.20 McDonalds Big Mac small meal: $6.45 -- By the way, I am looking to hire a Ruby on Rails developer for USD600/month in India / Philippines / Indonesia to help me develop my ideas. Please co…
I'd just add electricity to this list - I normally spend around ~$450 a quarter at a two bedroom place (in Sydney), so for one person you'd perhaps be looking ~$100 p.mth depending on whether you use air conditioning etc.
You pay $450/month in electricity?? That seems quite a lot.
(even though I can't really tell how much I pay because it's been four years I have automated my bills)
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#43Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia I assume that this is for an entry-level position. Monthly salary : ~ US$650-$950 (Average US$800). EPF deduction: 11% Room Rent: US$150. Food: US$250 (3 ramen sized meals) Car Installment: US$100 (Perodua Viva) Petrol: US$50 These are the costs for survival mode living. Optional Movie ticket: US$3-5 Internet (1Mbps): US$35 Mobile (300 mins): US$10 Alcohol: Forget it.
I'm guessing from a quick Google that EPF is Malaysia's compulsory retirement savings program?
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#44Australia in AUD (about the same as USD these days): One bedroom rent in Sydney: $1200/month (EDIT: increased the rent based on comments) Food: $400 Wages:$60K-120K/year (gross) Internet:$50/month Phone: $50/month Bus ticket: $3.20 McDonalds Big Mac small meal: $6.45 -- By the way, I am looking to hire a Ruby on Rails developer for USD600/month in India / Philippines / Indonesia to help me develop my ideas. Please co…
+1 on those numbers, except the salary varies quite a lot more that that.
A graduate developer is often on $40-50K, and an experienced developer can get contracts for $70-75/hour without too much trouble ($130K+/year)
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#45Australia in AUD (about the same as USD these days): One bedroom rent in Sydney: $1200/month (EDIT: increased the rent based on comments) Food: $400 Wages:$60K-120K/year (gross) Internet:$50/month Phone: $50/month Bus ticket: $3.20 McDonalds Big Mac small meal: $6.45 -- By the way, I am looking to hire a Ruby on Rails developer for USD600/month in India / Philippines / Indonesia to help me develop my ideas. Please co…
Perth, Australia is substantially the same. If you're really eating ramen or beans and rice, food could be a bit less.
Figure about $100/month for comfortable use of electricity and gas.
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#46Warsaw, Poland - single room flat $400-500 + expenses - internet 6Mbps $20 - public transport $50 - restaurant downtown $10-30, sushi $30-40, kebab $3-4, mcdonald $4 - beer in a club/restaurant $3-4, 0.5 can of heineken $1.6, marlboro $4 wages are really flexible (to call it nicely), if you have clients you can make more on freelancing than even some good programmers on 9to5, a lot of good programmers are paid below…
$500.00 for a single room flat in Warsaw == 1500PLN
Are you sure it is that much?
Also, I call BS on "specialist" making 9000 PLN a month
P.S. Official median salary in PL is 1500PLN a month.
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#47I'm currently bootstrapping a startup on my savings, with no incomes. I moved from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). It's a very inexpensive place to live in.
- Room on a flat: $150-$200 - Food: $120
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#48Moscow, Russia typ. exp: ~600$ per each family member for food/clothes/utilities (no fancy stuff) 700-1200$ renting 1 room apt. 20$ internet (10MBit+ is common) extras: 60-100$ meal for 2 at *reasonably* priced restaurant 15$ movie ticket 10-20$ taxi ride 1$ ramen noodles (called "Doshirak" here) 2.5$ BigMac avg. salary IT (after tax) $700-1500/mth (mostly around $1000/mth)
Kostroma, Russia
I don't include clothes because these are more difficult to consider.
$250-350 for 2 room rent
$200+ for some "normal" food (meat and veggies included), if you prepare it yourself
$25 internet (10 mbit)
$6 movie ticket
$3 taxi ride
$0.2 for cheap ramen
$1 for some better ramen
$2.5 big mac
I don't agree on salaries in Moscow. It's not a big deal to find a 70k RUR ($2.1k) position for an IT guy.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd just add electricity to this list - I normally spend around ~$450 a quarter at a two bedroom place (in Sydney), so for one person you'd perhaps be looking ~$100 p.mth depending on whether you use air conditioning etc.
You pay $450/month in electricity?? That seems quite a lot. (even though I can't really tell how much I pay because it's been four years I have automated my bills)
Sorry, that was a bad typo :) I pay $450 a quarter, so $150 a month. Fixed my comment.
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#50São Paulo, Brazil - converted to US$ Expenses - Rent: small 300sqf one bedroom unfurnished apartment + utilities, in average area - $900/month - Internet: $60 for 5mbps - Cell phone: $150 for 300 minutes - Bus or Metro ticket: $1.50 - Petrol: $5.20/gallon - Movie ticket: $12 - Pizza, takeaway: $15 - Pizza, in restaurant: $25 - BigMac: $6 - Eating out, mid-market: $50 for 2 people - Bread, whole: $3/pound - Oranges: $…
The dollar is what, now? R$1,70? I guess we are talking about nicer areas, like Pinheiros, Vila Madalena or even Jardins. R$1500,00 for a 300sqf apartment? That is really, really expensive. For that price you can get a 2 1/2 bedroom close to Morumbi or Brooklyn. Also, $4 for a beer? It has to be a really trendy, high-end club. How much does a large bottle of Original/Bohemia cost at a bar, or at a deli (padaria)? Als…
Rent for small apartments close to the Green or Yellow lines are in the R$1000-1200 range for rent only. You must add charges("condominio"), electricity and tax("iptu"). I have two units, one close to Clinicas hospital, another close to Ana Rosa station, that I rent for R$1200 each, plus charges of around R$350 each.
At a far-from-trendy mid-market bar, the going price for a large bottle of Original is in the R$6-7 range, not only in Vila Madalena but also in Paraiso, Vila Mariana, Bela Vista, Jardins, Pinheiros. The price for a Bohemia at a "padaria" is R$4.
My fix-priced cell phone plan for 300 minutes, unlimited text and very limited 3G is R$250.
Bus or Metro tickets are R$2.70 now, not US$1 as I (mis)quoted.
São Paulo isn't cheap.