I only have 2 months worth of information here, but here is a budget breakdown: http://ablate.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-does-it-cost-to-live-in-asia.html?m=1 ht

I only have 2 months worth of information here, but here is a budget breakdown: http://ablate.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-does-it-cost-to-live-in-asia.html?m=1 http://ablate.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-does-it-cost-to-live... In short, my expenses were under 1,000usd monthly. Like the other person that replied, I did that by not really eating out often, not going to foreign restaurants, and choosing cheap activities, which Taipei has plenty of. Rock climbing was 30c at the gym, hiking was free, a day trip to fulong for bicycling was like five bucks total. Etc. So yea, putting 50% of income away to savings isn't exactly ideal I guess (we're supposed to do 70% right?) Hence my plans to move back as an engineer. Edit: in hindsight, I don't know how the fuck I was spending 200$ on groceries lol. That's how much I spend here. I could definitely optimize that budget. Probably wasn't leveraging the morning markets enough and buying too much Nutella or something.