[Gunner]

(01-03-2013 08:15 PM)username Wrote:  

Quote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...s-sun.html

Rent (two-bedroom home): $800/£490
Utilities (electricity, gas, water, phone, cable TV, Internet): $220/£134
Groceries: $300/$183
Entertainment: $250/£153
Health care (two people on IMSS insurance, plus $70 per month for incidentals): $112/£68
Maid: Three times a week: $210/£128
Gardener: Once a week: $87/£53
Incidentals: $150/£91

Mexico: $2,129/ £1,304 per month

Here is a little more data for Mexico...

I was in Mexico in a top 20 city by population in 2011 and again in 2012 and I stayed with a family with two teenagers and they live with about $2,000 a month, only the husband worked. The rent for their 3 bedroom 3 bathroom house in a safe gated community was $600 a month. Another house in the same neighborhood was available for $75,000 to buy. Utilities about the same. No gardener and no maid. They have two cars and use them everyday.

I think like bacon said above, prices can vary a lot in Mexico.

Top 20 city with those prices you lived in Mérida, Veracruz, Aguascalientes or San Luis Potosí.
Top 5 cities have a lot of variance inside the same city, just as every other place in the world.

You could live with 1,000 USD in Mexico City but you're going to have a not so good time.