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There are places where $136/month will easily cover rent in a cheaper town, or food. e.g., where I live, in Ukraine.
by igammarays 5y ago
There 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.