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07-21-2017, 09:12 AM
Fellas, looking at a few different options to move longterm for 6-12 months at a time and was hoping to get a better understanding of a few places i'm thinking about. Seen as the good people on here have traveled a fair bit more than me hopefully i can get more of an idea before taking the plunge. Places i'd be looking at would be -
Colombia (Medellin), Peru (Lima), Chile (Santiago), Costa Rica (San Jose?), Vietnam (Da Nang), Taiwan, Ukraine & Hungary
Just interested in knowing if i could live in each comfortably having only $2k USD a month, living in a nice apartment in a nice part of town and would cover food, eating out a couple of times a week, internet, gym and some language lessons.
If any of the experts can help out it'd be greatly appreciated
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07-21-2017, 10:05 AM
Do a forum search. Plenty of threads.
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07-21-2017, 08:45 PM
Thanks ascotpudding but i've had a look at expatistan and like most of those sort of sites it's hard to gauge what the lifestyle they are living, if it's a safe area of town, etc doing it that way.
Looked through a lot of forum threads samsamsam but most don't give an exact figure for a month, just some random costs here and there and a lot are out of date.
I don't even need a big rundown of costs, i was just interested in the people that have lived in these places if they could say yes or no in regards to them or if they don't recommend picking those places but all good, thanks for the replies.
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07-21-2017, 08:48 PM
Check out nomadlist.com too.
Honestly, why not just look at AirBnb for the cities you're interested in? That should give you a good estimate for housing, which will be your biggest cost by far.
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07-22-2017, 03:05 AM
Yea i've checked that one out too and done as you said looked through AirBnb, i've got a fair idea. Thanks for the suggestion i was more interested in some inside info from the people who have done it but all good, i will keep hunting through the threads and take a bit of a gamble.
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07-22-2017, 10:23 PM
You can live a decent lifestyle in Hungary with 2k, in Ukraine you'd be very comfortable.
But as G Manifesto would have said, if you're asking where you can live for 2k you might be asking the wrong question.
Surprisingly, few people are talking about that.
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07-23-2017, 05:57 AM
Numbeo is quite accurate if I look at Poland or France, only the rents seems like 10-20% lower than reality.
You can live quite comfortably anywhere in Eastern Europe. If you don't go out much then you'll probably spend much less than that. The problem is that if you don't have European citizenship you won't be able to stay long term and short term accommodation is much more expensive.
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07-23-2017, 06:44 AM
Yes.
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07-23-2017, 10:54 AM
In EE maybe the top ten percent of people are earning 1500 or more in a month.