I'd say it depends a lot on where you live, for example where I live, 800-900€/month would be enough to live top class life. How I see it is the following. When I earn 10-12k€/month, I just bought myself 1 year of comfortable life if things go bad. But my goal is to retire by the time I turn 24 (18 right now) and I wanna do it by renting 3-4 apartments in capital which will cost me cca 350-450k€, means I have to keep up my current earnings for 4 years and I'm retired, if all goes good, by the time I turn 22