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How much can you live off of?
« on: July 26, 2010, 02:53:07 PM »

Realistic. No fucking around, no acting like a hot shot, just ow much money do you need to pay your rent, insurance, etc, and be able to eat. I'm not talking barely scraping by, but im not including cost of a week in cancun and a 42" TV.

Don't post your salary - post where you live, living arrangement,  and how much it costs you to live there. Level of detail is up to you. I think this can be a pretty useful archive since we have members all over the country and it would be nice for our journeyman heroes like hotrex to know where to spread their appleseed next.

Trying to get a feel for places I may relocate to, I only know NYC salaries vs cost of living and all the online calculators are full of shit. I want to try living somewhere else soooo....

My experience - includes all expenses neccesary, along with commuting costs etc.

State College PA - living alone in apt =  ~15,000 a year
State College PA - living with 3 roommates in townhouse = ~6,000 a year
Brooklyn, NY - living alone in apt = 15-22,000 a year
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2010, 03:17:35 PM »

Realistic. No fucking around, no acting like a hot shot, just ow much money do you need to pay your rent, insurance, etc, and be able to eat. I'm not talking barely scraping by, but im not including cost of a week in cancun and a 42" TV.

Don't post your salary - post where you live, living arrangement,  and how much it costs you to live there. Level of detail is up to you. I think this can be a pretty useful archive since we have members all over the country and it would be nice for our journeyman heroes like hotrex to know where to spread their appleseed next.

Trying to get a feel for places I may relocate to, I only know NYC salaries vs cost of living and all the online calculators are full of shit. I want to try living somewhere else soooo....

My experience - includes all expenses neccesary, along with commuting costs etc.

State College PA - living alone in apt =  ~15,000 a year
State College PA - living with 3 roommates in townhouse = ~6,000 a year
Brooklyn, NY - living alone in apt = 15-22,000 a year


Bills: $90 cellphone + $300 rent + < 100$ utilities/cable/internet + $100 car payment + 70$ car insurance = ~ 660/mo. I can live comfortably on $1000/mo income.

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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2010, 03:27:01 PM »

Is that in Israel, or what? Location please sir  :-*
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2010, 03:27:15 PM »

$200 / month cell (two people one plan) + 1200 / month mortgage + $200 / month insurance (car, house, bikes, sleds ect...) + $200 month fuel + 200 month food (might be a little low there) + $50 month for dogs + $100 for clothes or repairs or something else I am forgetting... ~$2150/mo So I can live comfortably on $2500/mo


This is for Calgary AB, Canada (I know, I know Canada doesn't count) I live in an old 1200sq ft house with a decent sized garage, and not in the hood, but not in a baller area either. Median income for the area is $87K.

EDIT: Forgot Gas, electricity, home phone, internet, taxes, water and sewer. So really I am more like $2500/mo live comfortably on $3000/mo
« Last Edit: July 26, 2010, 04:36:04 PM by dvst8r »
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2010, 03:28:32 PM »

Should be interesting...

Hazel Green, AL

$400 - 3br/2ba duplex rental
$100 - phone bill
$75 - internet bill
$100 - insurance
$125 - electricity/water
$125 - gas (about $600 a tank, every few months, FUCK GAS)
$50 - server
$150 - gas  (for car)
$150 - cigs
$60 - dog food
$200 - my groceries
$160 - lunch
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$1690/mo

Need around $2000/mo to live comfortable-ish.  Make not too much more than that.  Always in the pursuit of mo' money.
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2010, 03:30:40 PM »

TY for posting guys, but please, location is CRITICAL. Just because I know you live in bfe, GA doesnt mean henry knowwwws
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2010, 03:32:18 PM »

Is that in Israel, or what? Location please sir  :-*

SW Missouri

3 bedroom house (3 years old) 1600sq ft. w/ 2 room mates to put it in perspective. Rent/Utilities is split 3 ways.

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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2010, 03:32:59 PM »

$1K/month or $12K/year, kid in tow.  Barebones bills and food on the table.

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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2010, 03:44:12 PM »

hookers $100
blow $800

$900
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2010, 03:48:48 PM »

I live like I'm a beautiful princess, I'm not the guy to ask  :P
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2010, 03:51:52 PM »

950 mortgage
70 internet and tv
40 car ins
200 fuel
250 groceries

That's what I pay, she pays the rest... electric, phone, water.

I need to work on being lowrent.
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2010, 03:56:18 PM »

Quebec, Canada

FOR 2ppl:
780$ rent (4 1/2 @ ~780ft²)
500$ food
30$ cell phone
85$ car and apartment insurance
110$ cable/internet/phone
220$ gas
108$ electricity
30$ cat food (not sure on this one)
100$+ beer/alcohol
3000$/12months school = 250$/mo
262$ car payment
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2475$/mo CAD, ~2326$ USD
29700$/year

ALONE:
780 rent
250 food
30 cell phone
40$ insurance
110$ internet/cable/phone
160$ gas
90$ electricity
200$ alcohol (more to forget that you are alone)
250$ school
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1910$/mo

What is funny is that I make 1400$/month


In reality it's a bit more than that, but to live OK it's about that.




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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2010, 04:15:54 PM »

Living at home under $10k after taxes and job expenses.

Car Ins $100 a month
Cell $45 a month
Storage unit $145 a month

About $500-550 a month, but just had to take a $40 a week pay cut as the contract I work was underbid by new company.
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2010, 04:24:06 PM »

$1200/month mortgage
$250 insurance(3 cars, 2 with full coverage)
$150 celly for me and the wife
$200 random bills(elec/water/etc.)
$30 for 7meg internet
$200 car payment
$400 gas and food

I can make it on about $2500-$3k a month with extra spending cash. Probably cheaper if I wanted to be absolutely bare bones. Used to rent a 2br house for $650

Eastern Washington state
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2010, 05:00:27 PM »

Juneau Alaska

1100 month rent for 2 bed
400 month for grocerys
50 internet
100 cell phone
70 insurance
700 in student loans
40 bucks fuel
 2460 a month
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2010, 05:27:46 PM »

Fargo,ND

$250 - rent with 2 others in 3bdr apt (when i wasn't living at home as i am lately)
$300 - food
$100 - gas
$25 - cable/internet (split 3 ways)
$15-20 - utilities (2 way split)
$60 - car insurance

That's roughly $800 and it would very depending on how much i drove. If i didn't buy expensive car parts i would have been able to live fine on a next to nothing job ($10/hr)
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2010, 05:33:39 PM »

Live with Hotrexes mom and make all the rules.... Priceless
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2010, 06:12:03 PM »

I'm poor

$580 month for rent (utilities, cable, internet included)
whatever else depends how much money i have in my pocket (gas, food, cell phone)

Told ya, I'm poor
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2010, 06:25:33 PM »

I am going to be moving back to my home town with my GF , but this is a quick idea

Rent - 1 bedroom  $1015
Car insurance 0 SiR  - $200 a mo
Cell and Intraweb - $220 ish

I commute to work and drive home on weekends , so 1000 km per week , 2 tanks of gas or about $80 @ today's prices a Week in gas

Moving back to Ktown will save me 9K a year , insurance, gas , rent , ect.
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2010, 06:29:38 PM »

hookers $100
blow $800

$900


Blow $100
Hookers $800

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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2010, 06:39:53 PM »

MONTHLY   

4BR 3Bath 2 CAr garage house
Seattle area

House      600 (I rent a couple rooms out)
Cell           80
Food       400
Gas          200
Racegas   150
Insurance 200 (Cars and rental)
Utilities      150  (Cable/electricity)


Thats without all the bullshit I buy for the car or other shit...

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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2010, 07:06:01 PM »

i dont think mine counts very much since i live with my parents currently but:

Pensacola, FL

Car payment - 200
Car insurance (2 cars) - 100
cell phone - 100
entertainment - 200
best buy payments - 200
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total - 800 a month

if it wasnt for building my pos prelude, i would be living very comfortably but im not looking to stay at my parents house much longer.  I make about 1500 a month not counting the random tunes i do.  looking forward to getting out of the "shop business" and into law enforcement while still maintaining tuning on the side.  Fuck turning wrenches for little pay and no benefits.
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #22 on: July 26, 2010, 07:12:13 PM »

mortage - 1750
cable, gas/eletric, cell, water, - 400
food/gas - 300+ easy
insurance - 110

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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #23 on: July 26, 2010, 07:16:52 PM »

I'm near Jacksonville FL

my lifestyle needs a household income of about $3500 a month to be sort of comfortable, but not having much money to play with. that includes

mortgage on 2 acres, 2500sqft house, 3600sqft of shop space
2 iphones
middle of the road cable/internet package
1 honda fit payment, 2 cars insured
1 dog, 2 cats
eating out for lunch almost every day

+1 on getting away from making a living with your hands. i am working on finding something less physical and in a climate controlled building
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #24 on: July 26, 2010, 07:17:17 PM »

buk would let you live for free in his moms house
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #25 on: July 26, 2010, 07:26:54 PM »

buk would let you live for free in his moms house

my house :P
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #26 on: July 26, 2010, 07:35:19 PM »

West fargo, nd

4bed 4 bath just shy or 6k sq ft house
gas for 4 cars (civic, crx, tahoe, hummer)
utilities
insurance
groceries
blah blah blah

NEED to make 30K/yr to get by with my bills/situation.....can easily live comfortably on 35K+

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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #27 on: July 26, 2010, 08:36:36 PM »

$0 - Rent
$0 - Food
$0 - Phone
$0 - internet
$100 - Random shit I want to buy

Kandahar, Afghanistan
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #28 on: July 26, 2010, 08:38:00 PM »

MONTHLY   

4BR 3Bath 2 CAr garage house
Seattle area

House      600 (I rent a couple rooms out)
Cell           80
Food       400
Gas          200
Racegas   150
Insurance 200 (Cars and rental)
Utilities      150  (Cable/electricity)


Thats without all the bullshit I buy for the car or other shit...



i think you forgot a zero in the food category fatman.
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Re: How much can you live off of?
« Reply #29 on: July 26, 2010, 08:52:42 PM »

Trailer Park rental space:300
Taco Truck Funds:100
Malt Liquor/40's:100
Drank/Kool Aid:50
Water/Powa:150
Insurance on 2 crx's+truck:150

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