Unfortunately you can´t really do much with magnitudes of money - it´s all about the relative price level. Working in Silicon Valley with 6k/month income, and 4

Unfortunately you can´t really do much with magnitudes of money - it´s all about the relative price level. Working in Silicon Valley with 6k/month income, and 4k/month housing expense makes you significantly worse off than the person with 4k income and 1k housing expense living in the midwest, say, who is consequently much more able to save. A similar comment applies with respect to comparing absolute prices between countries.