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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.todaytoMemes@lemmy.mlplease wake up
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    5 days ago

    Heey, so I also had similar thoughts when I was living by $300/mo, but it’s really, really not much. Here’s the short breakdown

    • rent. Rent is sky-high in places like Berlin, London, Paris, the US, and a lot of other places. You can find a studio apt for like $400/mo in a poor place

    • food. Earning $4k/mo means a lot of work and cooking is not an option. If you rent a cheap apartment, chances are you have a poor kitchen. So it adds $400 per person a month

    • emergency. If your partner loses a job or a close relative gets something like cancer, you start spending much more. I had both, unfortunately




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    5 days ago

    For a long time I had a job that paid exactly $4k a month net. It was heaven as the median salary where I live is 6 times lower. Then I started to think where else I could move. Turns out that this is not enough for most of the countries in Europe