How much does it cost you to live?

Expat in the Philippines.

Age: 25
Size of Family: 2 (Me + Girlfriend)
Country(Province/State Optional): Philippines

Monthly Expenses
Rent: $800
Food: $1000 (I eat from restaurants everyday at work cause the food here ain't so reliable)
Bills (Internet + Electricity + Water): $250
Entertainment: $1000

Shit this thread has just made me realize that I need to account for my expenses a little better. I spend around $3500 a month yet I can't account for it all now that I think about it.
lol, i forgot entertainment too. If i count entertainment in, maybe i need to add about $200 extra
 
Age: 17
Country: HR, India
Size of Family: 1
Internet Bill: $100
Phone bill: $10-20
Rent: Living with parents
Food: $200-300
Misc: $100-400
Car fuel: $50-100
Repair car/computer/anything; $0-400 [Just got my car repaired for $250 and broke one of my computers today]

Total: Minimum= 560 Maximum= 1000 USD, Monthly savings= $300-500
 
Age: 19
Size of Family: 1
Country(Province/State Optional): Mauritius (intern)
Monthly Expenses:
Rent: $175 (Upper floor shared house with one roommate, save neighberhood, rich area)
Food: $140
Internet/TV/Phone: ~ $5
Gas& elektrisch: $25
School: parents pay
Clubbing: 200
Other: 100

645dollar total
 
Age: 50
g/f: 18 and beautiful!

Size of Fam: 2
Country: Philippines
Monthly Expenses: $200
Relatives $150
Rent - $400 (Brand New House fully furnished 2 bedrooms with cool basement)
Food - $300 fresh fish, meat, veggies and fruit
Internet - $75
Beer - 50 cents at corner store -in the bar/restaurant - 80 cents
Trike to take you for around 3 miles - 16 cents
Dinning Out (Mostly McDonalds and they love it LOL) - $100
Dinning out by the ocean - red chicken curry $2
Pollution - Free


I will vouch for this, plenty of 50yr old guys walking the streets with BEAUTIFUL young girls!
 
Just estimates, not 100% sure.

Age: 14
Size of Family: 5 (bro,bro,mom,dad)
Country(Province/State Optional): Tripoli, Libya (foreigner there).
Monthly Expenses:
Rent: $1,000 (cant own houses)
Bills: About $500
Food: $400-$500
Internet: $80 (2)
Cellphone: $10-$20
Gas: $50-$100
Cable: $20
Gym: 4 people, $225
Going Out: $100

Total: $2,460

And I pay nothing :P.
 
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Age:18
Country: WB, India
Rent: Free (living with family), moving out to a metro city within few days. Rent would be 150$ max. :D
Food: Free for now. After I move out, it would be at max 250$.
Electricity+Phone+Internet: 100$
Misc: 200$

Earn in USD, Spend in INR :D :biggthump
 
Age: 23
Size of Family: 1
Country(Province/State Optional): NY, USA
Monthly Expenses:
Rent - $750 (2 bdrm flat, for just me, utilities included)
Internet/Cable - $100
Cell Phone - $120
Food & Grocery - $300
Entertainment - $200
Car Insurance - $100
Gas- $100

Total: $1,670 / Month
 
Age: 28
Size of Family: 1
Country(Province/State Optional): id
Own house
Internet/Cable - 80$
Cell Phone - 25$
Food & Grocery - $250
Entertainment (cinema/club/sport) - $200
Liquor - $150
House (electric,insurance etc)expenses - 500$
Hosting-800$
Car - $200
treatment (vitamin supplement) - $100

total 2300
 
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Nice thread KickFlip.

Here is mine:

Age: 25
Size of Family: 2
Country(Province/State Optional): Dublin, Ireland
Monthly Expenses:
Rent - $1300 (Apartment with lake and park view in very safe area with office etc...)
Internet/Cable - $70
Cell Phone - $35 (thats with unlimited calls)
Food & Grocery - $600 (including alcohol)
Entertainment - $300 (once a week some eat out, buses, drink out sometimes)
IM expenses - $1.000 a month (servers, software, subscriptions)
Extras - $700 (just bought $650 laptop, every month the is something. This month I need another $900 laptop)
Tickets - $300 (my whole family is spread around Europe. This month I need to go to Spain for few days for example).

Total:

$3.300
 
Age: 22
Size of Family: 2 wife and me
Country(Province/State Optional): Canada, Ontario
Monthly Expenses:
Rent - 900 split so 450
Internet/Cable - havn't paid for a while
Cell Phone - 100
Food & Grocery - 250
Car - 375
Insurance - 450
Gas - 500
Cigarette - 300

TOTAL = 2425

MORE THAN I AM PAID
 
Personal only (not business):

Age: 23
Location: London, UK
Rent: $1500
Bills: $300
Phone: $120
Food and drink: $500
Car: $200
Sports: $200
Travel (flights etc): $600
Cigarettes: Quit :D

~$3500
 
P90X bro! Saves me $60/month and $720/year! LOL
haha good for you. i'm a ectomorph so i need heavy weights, can't do squats deadlifts bench press at home :P
Age: 28
Size of Family: 1
Country(Province/State Optional): id
Own house
Internet/Cable - 80$
Cell Phone - 25$
Food & Grocery - $250
Entertainment (cinema/club/sport) - $200
Liquor - $150
House (electric,insurance etc)expenses - 500$
Hosting-800$
Car - $200
treatment (vitamin supplement) - $100

total 2300
we should party sometime....haha
Personal only (not business):

Age: 23
Location: London, UK
Rent: $1500
Bills: $300
Phone: $120
Food and drink: $500
Car: $200
Sports: $200
Travel (flights etc): $600
Cigarettes: Quit :D

~$3500

goodjob quiting smoking meathead :D
 
United states, New Jersey
Family 2 me and my wife
Age 32
Mortgage 3,500
Gas/elec 300-400 depending on time of year butt that's total average
Vehicles owned
Cell 100
Tv/internet/martketing/CLAD 300
Misc (water/sewer) 100
Groceries 300-400
Gas for the vehicles 200
Web hosting accounts 70

Man I did not realize how much shit I pay each month.
 
Honestly i am jealouse at most of you , prices in usd/month :

Age: 39
Fam size : 3
Country : Switzerland
Rent : $2150
Utilities : $450
Internet/tv : $275
Cell phones : $400-$500
Groceries : $1500-$2000
Insurances excl cars : $1150
Cars : $850 (not counting petrol)
Entertainment : $1000-$1250 ( eating out mostly )
Sports and subscriptions : $350
Im expenses : $2500-$3000
 
Honestly i am jealouse at most of you , prices in usd/month :

Age: 39
Fam size : 3
Country : Switzerland
Rent : $2150
Utilities : $450
Internet/tv : $275
Cell phones : $400-$500
Groceries : $1500-$2000
Insurances excl cars : $1150
Cars : $850 (not counting petrol)
Entertainment : $1000-$1250 ( eating out mostly )
Sports and subscriptions : $350
Im expenses : $2500-$3000

My god....Now tell us, do you at least get to enjoy your life? Do you eat good food always? Lots of eating out and grocerys. If you make your family eat Rice and Noodle you will save $2000/month LOL.
 
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