Living cost in your country? ( Archived) (72)

Mar 1, 2012 11:37 AM CST Living cost in your country?
olaix
olaixolaixValhalla, Nordland Norway52 Threads 6 Polls 1,119 Posts
What could you get away with in living cost in your country?

Where I live, the average apartment 65m2 is about 1k Euro, but can go up to double if one add a bit of size and triple if you add flavor of the month standard.

Gasoline is about 2 euro/ liter, a dinner out is about 20-30 euro (depending on what you eat of course, fast food is about 10 euro for a burger), my personal food budget is about 100 euro/ week (could live cheaper if I made more myself), a .5 liter coca cola is 2.5 euro if i remember correctly, a heineken .33 is 4 euro, a pack of 20 cigarettes (for those who smoke) is about 12 euro. 1 liter milk is about 2 euro and a piece of bread is 3 euro.

feel free to add more details.
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Mar 1, 2012 11:39 AM CST Living cost in your country?
olaix
olaixolaixValhalla, Nordland Norway52 Threads 6 Polls 1,119 Posts
On monthly basis, I forgot to add.

Internet also (important), 40 euro (slowest speed I think), and up.
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Mar 1, 2012 11:49 AM CST Living cost in your country?
pops666
pops666pops666Waterloo,ontario, Ontario Canada4 Threads 1,387 Posts
Well lets see a euro is equal to 1.45 Canadian according to converter..so just by some of your examples ie..milk and things we pay considerably less...

Smokes - at 12 erous is just over $17 CAD when we pay $10 , milk we pay average of $5 CAD for 4 litres at your price is $11.60 CAD..

Question how can people survive...the wages must be high??

My rent is $640/month hydro included which would roughly be 440 euros.
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Mar 1, 2012 12:02 PM CST Living cost in your country?
nevica
nevicanevicabeautiful, Gavleborg Sweden11 Threads 640 Posts
olaix: What could you get away with in living cost in your country?

Where I live, the average apartment 65m2 is about 1k Euro

What is 1K?
my expenses:
flat 68 m2 - 416 euro a month, Internet 21 euro 10mbit/sek, food about 200 euro a month for one person( I never it out), electricity 33 euro a month, milk 1,20 euro, bread 1-4 euro
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Mar 1, 2012 12:05 PM CST Living cost in your country?
nevica
nevicanevicabeautiful, Gavleborg Sweden11 Threads 640 Posts
nevica: electricity 33 euro a month

correction it will be about 21 euro a month, in sweden we have crowns, about 600 sek for 3 months
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Mar 1, 2012 12:08 PM CST Living cost in your country?
olaix
olaixolaixValhalla, Nordland Norway52 Threads 6 Polls 1,119 Posts
Wages are high, but we are sucked blood in tax :D
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Mar 1, 2012 12:09 PM CST Living cost in your country?
olaix
olaixolaixValhalla, Nordland Norway52 Threads 6 Polls 1,119 Posts
nevica: What is 1K?
my expenses:
flat 68 m2 - 416 euro a month, Internet 21 euro 10mbit/sek, food about 200 euro a month for one person( I never it out), electricity 33 euro a month, milk 1,20 euro, bread 1-4 euro


Sorry, K=kilo=1000
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Mar 1, 2012 12:11 PM CST Living cost in your country?
ganj69
ganj69ganj69porlock, Somerset, England UK1 Threads 503 Posts
What is 1K?
my expenses:
flat 68 m2 - 416 euro a month, Internet 21 euro 10mbit/sek, food about 200 euro a month for one person( I never it out), electricity 33 euro a month, milk 1,20 euro, bread 1-4 euro[/quot


200 a month for food, you can't be eating very much!
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Mar 1, 2012 12:13 PM CST Living cost in your country?
pops666
pops666pops666Waterloo,ontario, Ontario Canada4 Threads 1,387 Posts
olaix: Wages are high, but we are sucked blood in tax :D


Aren't we all..don't know about there but our taxes cover police,fire ,and major portion of health care...my job pays 80% of expenses not covered by our health care
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Mar 1, 2012 12:15 PM CST Living cost in your country?
nevica
nevicanevicabeautiful, Gavleborg Sweden11 Threads 640 Posts
ganj69: 200 a month for food, you can't be eating very much!

As I said, I almost never eat out , I cook at home, I don't starve and I am not skinny. How much do you spend for food?
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Mar 1, 2012 12:18 PM CST Living cost in your country?
pops666
pops666pops666Waterloo,ontario, Ontario Canada4 Threads 1,387 Posts
nevica: What is 1K?
my expenses:
flat 68 m2 - 416 euro a month, Internet 21 euro 10mbit/sek, food about 200 euro a month for one person( I never it out), electricity 33 euro a month, milk 1,20 euro, bread 1-4 euro


200 euro a month is 290CAD a month for one person thats eating very well if cooking at home only..

I average what would be 110 euros for a month just cooking at home
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Mar 1, 2012 12:20 PM CST Living cost in your country?
olaix
olaixolaixValhalla, Nordland Norway52 Threads 6 Polls 1,119 Posts
pops666: Aren't we all..don't know about there but our taxes cover police,fire ,and major portion of health care...my job pays 80% of expenses not covered by our health care


Everything is free here except dentist if you're over 20 years old. You pay a fee of 30 euro at the doctor, but its the same at the hospital no matter what you do there, police, fire department, social services etc
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Mar 1, 2012 12:21 PM CST Living cost in your country?
ganj69
ganj69ganj69porlock, Somerset, England UK1 Threads 503 Posts
nevica: As I said, I almost never eat out , I cook at home, I don't starve and I am not skinny. Eow much do you spend for food?


sorry I didn't mean to imply anything by it, just that I thought Sweden was expensive.. and you look very pretty not skinny at all.

I think I spend about £400 a month. bouquet
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Mar 1, 2012 12:24 PM CST Living cost in your country?
pops666
pops666pops666Waterloo,ontario, Ontario Canada4 Threads 1,387 Posts
olaix: Everything is free here except dentist if you're over 20 years old. You pay a fee of 30 euro at the doctor, but its the same at the hospital no matter what you do there, police, fire department, social services etc


Good to learn something new...

Here doctors are included in health care fee...but we pay for dentists unless like me you have insurance then you only pay 20% of bill.
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Mar 1, 2012 12:25 PM CST Living cost in your country?
nevica
nevicanevicabeautiful, Gavleborg Sweden11 Threads 640 Posts
pops666: 200 euro a month is 290CAD a month for one person thats eating very well if cooking at home only..

I average what would be 110 euros for a month just cooking at home

I can spend less for food if I need to be careful with money and I don't have to starve, but you have to be smart, you can eat cheap or expensive, I real swedish forums, there are people who earn a lot but spend it stupidly and the money is never enough no matter how much they earn. They even have a TV show(lyxfällan) about people who are incredibly stupid with money, some people don't have to spend as much as they do.
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Mar 1, 2012 12:29 PM CST Living cost in your country?
olaix
olaixolaixValhalla, Nordland Norway52 Threads 6 Polls 1,119 Posts
pops666: Good to learn something new...

Here doctors are included in health care fee...but we pay for dentists unless like me you have insurance then you only pay 20% of bill.


Doctors and workers included here as well - I saw this movie by Michael Moore on health care where he went to Canada, looks pretty similar to the Norwegian system.
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Mar 1, 2012 12:30 PM CST Living cost in your country?
pops666
pops666pops666Waterloo,ontario, Ontario Canada4 Threads 1,387 Posts
nevica: I can spend less for food if I need to be careful with money and I don't have to starve, but you have to be smart, you can eat cheap or expensive, I real swedish forums, there are people who earn a lot but spend it stupidly and the money is never enough no matter how much they earn. They even have a TV show(lyxfällan) about people who are incredibly stupid with money, some people don't have to spend as much as they do.


So true about the way people spend...I tend to go to our Farmers Market as you get meat,cheese,fish,bread,eggs,desserts,fruits and veg. for very good prices and supports local farmers...have to go to regular stores for all other items..
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Mar 1, 2012 12:32 PM CST Living cost in your country?
olaix
olaixolaixValhalla, Nordland Norway52 Threads 6 Polls 1,119 Posts
I would be most interesting to know about the countries of Asia too, from Middle East, to the South East.
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Mar 1, 2012 12:35 PM CST Living cost in your country?
pops666
pops666pops666Waterloo,ontario, Ontario Canada4 Threads 1,387 Posts
Good to learn this..one cannot truly understand different areas of the world without asking questionscheers
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Mar 1, 2012 12:36 PM CST Living cost in your country?
nevica
nevicanevicabeautiful, Gavleborg Sweden11 Threads 640 Posts
olaix: I would be most interesting to know about the countries of Asia too, from Middle East, to the South East.
as far as I know in Thailand and Philippines the food is very cheap but it would be fun to hear what they say
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