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With the current food prices, there are no countries where $136/month is a fairly decent living. Countries where $150/month is the average salary are a hellish
by csomar 5y ago
With the current food prices, there are no countries where $136/month is a fairly decent living. Countries where $150/month is the average salary are a hellish place to live in.
- sofixa 5y agoCurrent food prices where?
- csomar 5y agoThe food prices in most countries follow the international prices of several commodities. If cars, and gas are more expensive, then food becomes more expensive in most parts of the world.
- watwut 5y agoThere are serious differences between food prices around the world. They may change with gas prices, but that does not make them the same.
- oldsecondhand 5y agoThe food market is much more complicated than the gas one. A lot of countries have protectionist tariffs to protect domestic producers.
- igammarays 5y agoThere are places where $136/month will easily cover rent in a cheaper town, or food. e.g., where I live, in Ukraine.
- yesbabyyes 5y agoI'm sure you are right, but having to choose between food and a roof over one's head is hardly what constitutes "a fairly decent living", is it?
- xnyan 5y agoI lived in several cites in eastern Ukraine (Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Luhansk, Gorlovka, others) and I think the absolute cheapest apartment I lived in was a 1br in a bad part of Makeevka which was one of the cheaper towns I lived in, and that was $140 a month in 2007. Never saw prices that low again after 2008. I'm curious if rent prices have gone down since I lived there, or maybe I was just getting a foreigner tax? I didn't look at kommunalkas which could definitely be done for less than $140.
- igammarays 5y agoMy ex-gf was paying $100/month for a ghetto studio in Mariupol last year, and a foreigner I know is paying $200/month for an old 1BR on the fringes of Kharkiv right now. Kommunalkas can be insanely cheap, I've heard of $30/month for student bunks in Kharkiv, but you have to be on the tuition roster. Prices in USD terms dropped significantly after the 2014 crash.