Speaking for the Milan Area, Food: If you cook at home 300eu should be more than enough, if you eat out, well... yours could be a conservative estimate :) Defi

Speaking for the Milan Area, Food: If you cook at home 300eu should be more than enough, if you eat out, well... yours could be a conservative estimate :) Definitely not a place where people eat out that often. Health Insurance: The state thinks about that (tax-funded universal health care) Gadgets: $ value translated to € (as in $599Ipad -> 599€Ipad). Starting Programmer Salary: Real range depending on the contract type (there are a few options), after-tax it could start at around 1200€/mo for a junior (with very little variance) to well below 3000€/mo depending on seniority and the like.