What does it cost to live?

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I hear quite a few times that the cost of living is less in places. I al so hear that wages allow a person to live comfortably on less. I'd like to know what the cost of living is where you live. Please give a monthly estimate for your "middle class" standard of living. Anyone can sleep under a bridge and eat out of garbage or live on charity.

My estimates are:

Home $ 1500

Auto $ 1000

Utilities $ 250

Food $ 250

Entertainment $ 250

Retirement $ 250

General Expences $ 400

Credit Card $ 200

Total $ 4100 needed after taxes

add child support $ 800

$ 4900

add to net for taxes ( X 1.20 ) $ 5880 per month

$ 70,560.00 per year ! is needed for me to live at a "moddle class standard of living. Since I do not have a spouse to make the other half of the income necessary.

Please let me know what it costs to live "middle Class" Whwew you are. Also, tell me if I am out of line with any of these "Midle Class"figures.

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O.K., Australia, small town three hours from Brisbane.

House- we paid sixty grand for the house ( Bigtime Bargain av.price ninety to one-twenty)

Groc- five hundred a fortnight ( four boys, hubby, dog, 3cats, bird, fish )

Car- About fifty a month on fuel and five hundred a year in rego.

Utilities- about a hundred a month.

Sports for the kids- sixty a week.

We dont have time to go out very often but when we do it costs a fortune because we deserve it!!

Hubbys on thirty-five grand a year before tax, I'm on twenty-five. We need about sixty to seventy to have a comfortable life and pay for the kids to go on to higher education. We also have a few investment homes for our retirement which pay for themselves.

Once I have my R.N.s it'll be onwards and upwards for us.

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This is monthly? I think your figures are high (especially home and car) or you might just be accustomed to a better middle class than me! Middle class to me is more around 40K american.

House: 1 200$ (mortgage payment on my townhouse)

Car: 600$ (1998 ford)

Utilities: 200$

Food: about 350$ (because I eat out often)

Entertainment: 200$

Credit card: Never carry more than 200$ balance, because credit cards are death to finances

Savings (retirement and my vacation fund): whatever is left

Which gives me 2 750 plus retirement and savings money. I manage to save a few hundred a month. I don't live extravagantly, but I am comfortable and I manage to take a good vacation every 2 years at least to satisfy my travellust.

I am in Canada and these are all Canadian dollars.

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I think I get off pretty reasonably, but we have been in the same condo since 1986 and have no kids

House - $520 (includes assoc fee)

Car - none, both are paid off 1993 and 1995

Utilities - $184 (includes internet access)

Food - $320

Entertainment - $30

Retirement - $830 max the IRA's and 20% of my paycheck

General - $150

Credit - pay it off every month

I start my nursing job in two weeks, it will be interesting to see how my paycheck looks.

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$1000 for auto? are you driving a Mercedes or a Porshe?

$250 for entertainment? Your obliously living pretty phat

Housing $700

Minivan $350

Utilities not sure, $150

Food, including diaper and formula, $500

Greens fees: $300 for May through october at a muny course, so $50 a month plus once or twice at a nice cour, another $70

CC bills, don't want to thing about it, about $300

Misc loans $400

Retirement? HAHAHAHA, gonna work till I drop dead.

Savings $0

Misc stuff $100

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Rent: $1000

Auto $ 250 (for 2 vehicles)

Utilities $100

Food $ 375

Entertainment $ 200

Retirement $ 250

General Expences $ 200

Credit Card $ 200

These are in Canadian $$ housing is expensive out here but the rest, food, clothing is reasonably priced.

Sue

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Well here is my bills in Arkansas (includes hubby)

Home $ 850

Auto $ 950 (2000 Xterra & 2002 Chevy Avalanche)

Utilities $ 200

Food $ 300 (eat out alot also)

Entertainment $ 150

Retirement $ not sure

General Expences $ 225

Credit Card $ 200

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Rent: $715 ($815 for two more months-pet deposit)

Auto: $950 (2 Leased)

Utilities: $250 (including internet)

Food: $300

Entertainment: $20

Credit Card: $650 (YIKES)

Insurance: $173(auto and renters)

General Expenses: $300

Retirement: $hmm, not sure, hubby set that up

:( Reality check!! When I get a job, which I hope to hear by the end of the week, those credit cards are getting paid off and cut up!!! We're in Dallas.

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:balloons: No State or city tax, whee!! :balloons:

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Home $430.00

Auto $270.00 (1998 Astro Van)

Utilities $ 300.00

Food $250.00

CreditCard $ 300.

Insurance $180.00

Hubby pay $250.00 in child support

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What the hell? $1000/month for your CAR? Dang. Here's my breakdown:

Mortgage: $700

Car: $400 (that's payment and insurance for a Ford Mustang, insurance for the paid off Volvo, and my partner has a work truck that her employer pays for)

Utilities: around $250 (with internet)

Credit cards: $300 or more, if I can swing it... need to pay off those damn cards

Food: $250, a lot of convenience food

Entertainment: what's that?

Ebay: oh, that should have gone on entertainment. Currently I have whittled my ebay spending down to $100/month or so...

Medical bills: $100

I'm really looking forward to paying off the credit cards once I get out of school and maybe purchasing a newer vehicle.

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Specializes in critical care.

i think we eat too much

Food :$500, that includes stuff like laundry detergent, diapers, and eating out which we rarely do.

house: $615

Cars: 0 paid off

utilities: $250 including internet and security

credit debt: 0 for now

Entertainment: about$25 we rent movies

traveling: $100, family is in the next state

Insurance:car: $75

retirement: that's a dream, that will have to wait until I get out of school. oh yeah, tuition we are saving $100 a month hoping that will get us close enough.

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