The consistent item on my budget that I find we struggle to keep low is eating out, largely because that’s the only way we see a lot of people (close friends and family). I wrote about this in my blog post when I limited my food to <$2 a day for a month, food is social and that’s a tough thing.
Thanks for sharing!
The consistent item on my budget that I find we struggle to keep low is eating out, largely because that’s the only way we see a lot of people (close friends and family). I wrote about this in my blog post when I limited my food to <$2 a day for a month, food is social and that’s a tough thing.
Also, I read your other post about setting your salary based on world’s average GDP and was shocked to see rent that low – rent is at minimum 5x that much in Sydney 😳
Fwiw, rent does seem a bit more expensive in Sydney than Vancouver (https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Canada&city1=Vancouver&country2=Australia&city2=Sydney), though only by about 27%, so still in the same ballpark. It looks pretty similar comparing on Craigslist too (I’m also a Vancouverite). I acknowledge you’d need to pay substantially more than 220USD per person, if you weren’t splitting costs with a partner or room-mate.