Guide to Living on $1400 a Month

[MA5Bergey]

Wow strong NY/Cali miscers up in this thread

[dixon]

$200 per month - brand new studio apartment with pool facilities, 24 hour security, and all sorts of amenities included like gym access and next door to an enormous mall

$350 per month - eat out at absolutely every meal and never cook in your house at all (did this while bulking).

$40 per month, maid to come twice a week

$100 monthly electric and water

$20 monthly laundry washed pressed and folded by the laundry lady

the rest -- massages, prostitutes, and over the counter steroids. Have your doctor inject them for you.

[i_will]

u only live of 30-50 bucks a week on food?

^This. Not without going and getting some kind of assistance, unless you go out and hunt for your meat.

[FU3L]

Did you live off of Ramen and canned soup?

[DangerDan]

To all of you guys saying you can't find a 400/a month apartment, I know of some in Austin and Austin has some pretty high living expenses, I'm sure there are some in other places....

[OTG]

Good Job OP for budgeting your money. It's cool now that's you're in your early 20s but you gotta move on up and make more, save a lot too.

[myosinner]

Holy **** my MORTGAGE is 600 a month for a house with three bedrooms up, a two bedroom apt downstairs which rents for 450 and a huge backyard with a shop. Never moving to a big city. Ever.

[fitnessman]

Lot's of Ohio hate in this thread.

Been to almost every state. Ohio is just home.

North Coast FTW!

[NDame616]

$600 mortgage? How fuggin expensive is your house? $50K?

My mortgage is like $2200 a month, and that's on par for where I live.

[c0vjek]

It's entirely possible. You could even cut those costs down a bit.

Yes, you can do it in places like NY, but you'll be living in a very urban neighborhood. The goverment also provides aid to those who make under a certain amount of money. The programs are out there, you just need to know how to take advantage of them.

are you serious?

I'm in Brooklyn and i been looking for a place to live, cheapest i found is $980 a month and its in a housing projects, basically a ghetto.
The the cost of food here would be $350-400 a month at least, and utillities for another $200-$500 a month and your out of funds

goverment does provide aid and cheap housing, but you know in NY, i rather be homeless in a smaller city then living in a ghetto in NY.

[NeverGymLess]

$200 per month - brand new studio apartment with pool facilities, 24 hour security, and all sorts of amenities included like gym access and next door to an enormous mall

$350 per month - eat out at absolutely every meal and never cook in your house at all (did this while bulking).

$40 per month, maid to come twice a week

$100 monthly electric and water

$20 monthly laundry washed pressed and folded by the laundry lady

the rest -- massages, prostitutes, and over the counter steroids. Have your doctor inject them for you.

X2 .

I just spent some time living in Buenos Aires and Medellin, Colombia. Living like a prince for a grand a month. Spending four months in Thailand in a couple months also , gonna spend max $4000 ...

[justdragit]

Hmmm...

$220 rent w/ Roommate
$300 truck payment
$100 cable/internet
$65 zales
$100 cell phone
$115 student loan
$115 insurance(full coverage)

That's all I can think of at the moment.. without food/drink/entertainment my bills are $1015/mo.. not too bad..

[myosinner]

$600 mortgage? How fuggin expensive is your house? $50K?

My mortgage is like $2200 a month, and that's on par for where I live.

That is outrageous bro. Did you do 100% financing or something? Idaho FTW.

[q-theman]

Move to rural kansas, its not that hard to live off of that. Some families that is all they earn to split up 4 ways. Yes, bad job market where I live.

[Betep]

$2500/Month rent
$600/ month full coverage
sucks balls brah

[JB05]

I would MUCH rather live in Ohio than NY, what does NY have that Ohio doesn't that I would actually enjoy? nothing, plus Ohio has a low cost of living.

But Ohio is boring brah

You don't have exciting urban stuff like this







lol it sucks living in a big city, no place to live long term or raise kids IMO

[johnsonb90436]

Lot's of Ohio hate in this thread.

Been to almost every state. Ohio is just home.

North Coast FTW!

coming from ppl that probably never been to cinci or columbus.

[johnsonb90436]

But Ohio is boring brah

lol it sucks living in a big city, no place to live long term or raise kids IMO

go to cleveland and down town cinci brah

[Ek2]

You're right, you have many different means to fix your car if it breaks, and even more money to pay for regular maintenance like oil changes. (not srs).

Don't know about you, but random garbage expenses pop up in my life all the time and I would have absolutely no extra money at the end of the day living on 1400$. That's why i stay with my parents.

[picartman]

Is there a website that can estimate your monthly expenses based on where you live? I always wanted to know how much I needed to make per month to live in a house in California.

[johnnyD7]

Dude.... get the fuk outa here. You are saying that Ohio has everything NYC has? NYC is the greatest city in the WORLD and has EVERY kind of food from EVERY kind of culture with EVERY price range. You don't need a car to live in NYC - there are no drunk drivers in NYC: everyone takes cabs. The city DOES NOT SLEEP. If I wake up at 4am and I feel like having a falafel or maybe fresh sushi or maybe excellent nachos I simply walk down the street and I have it in 6 mins tops.

I am an actor and make about $1400 a month and live quite comfortably on Bleeker street in NYC with $600 a month rent.

BRB - going to the beach - train takes me there in about 30 mins. I might go fishing as well. NYC ftw.

10 Best Big Cities

1 Colorado Springs, CO 369,800
2 Austin, TX 690,300
3 Mesa, AZ 442,800
4 Raleigh, NC 341,500
5 San Diego, CA 1,255,500
6 Virginia Beach, VA 438,400
7 Omaha, NE 414,500
8 Columbus, OH 730,700
9 Wichita, KS 354,900
10 New York, NY 8,143,200


http://money.cnn.com/magazines/money...bigcities.html

thanks for playing though

[anonymous]

1. Gorgeous women.
2. Money.
3. Restaurants (the best)
4. Night clubs
5. Diversity
6. Gorgeous women.


The biggest thing that sucks about being here is, price. Everything is expensive. Taxes are absurd. Rent is absurd. Absurd is absurd.

lmfao I've lived in Missouri, Oklahoma, Maryland, New York and currently go to school in North Carolina, and New York has had BY FAR the worst looking girls I've seen.

North eastern women are trashy looking dude. You need to get out of NY.

[repos]

Rent: $500
food: 120- 160 (includes supplements)
Misc: $40

Thats my budget

$680

[Episoad]

Income: $2690/mo

$650 Rent (2 bedroom downstairs with washer/dryer hooks)
$300 Car payment ('02 Acura RSX)
$250 Car insurance (FFFUUUU)
$30 Cable
(about) $50 Electric
(about) $120 Gas
(about) $150 Food

Total: $1550

Budgeting win?

[Muckle_Ewe]

How do all you guys spend so little on food?

I spend around ?50 a week at least on food which will come too over $300 equivalent a month.

[Betep]

How do all you guys spend so little on food?

I spend around ?50 a week at least on food which will come too over $300 equivalent a month.

wat

50x4=200

[tone4now]

lol OP. $410 for a one bedroom apartment in chicago would get you a place in the projects.

[Episoad]

How do all you guys spend so little on food?

I spend around ?50 a week at least on food which will come too over $300 equivalent a month.

Save what you don't eat for breakfast/lunch the next day. You can stretch a $5 homemade meal into 2-3 meals.

[CrimsonWhite]

i live on 800 a month trick

[Episoad]

lol OP. $410 for a one bedroom apartment in chicago would get you a place in the projects.

What won't even get you a decent apartment here in Alabama.