A poster here asked me this question in a mail.It comes up alot.I thought I would expound here.
How much do you nneed to get by?Dependson howwell you want to get by.
One of my girlfriends is a registered nurse.She makes 600,000 pesos a month,about $256.She gets by and also helps her mother.She rents a room in a house,walks or takes a bus to work.She easts simply but well,mama cooks for her alot.She has OK clothes,wears jeans and blouses mostly.
Would you want to live on that?I don't think so.You would probably want a better house even if renting a room.And we are here to meet women,so we want to have mooney to do thoingswith them.I don't ever ride buses,I could if I needed to.
Let me give you kind of the other end of the scale,gringo gone wild,me.It just looked at my monthly expenses and treid to estimate them.I get $3300 a motnh net from my pension and managed to spend that plus dip in to my savings in the last year.
I will put the prices in dollars.They areup 15% just from the dollar dropping in the last 8 months.
Rent,with administration,just went up $877
Computer cable hookup $198
This is for unlimiteduse.You can get it for $42,but
if your usage is high it can go to $400.It would have been
$300 for October but we got off the hook
Energy plus water,sewage on bill one bill $211
Jacuzzi runs this up,maybe $120 otherwise
Groceries,ect,including $700
wine,beer,liquor
Restaurants,intertainment $725
Taxis $362
Mostly for the girls
Gas $20
Phones $146
Maid $128
Total $3367
I get back about $850 rent from long term renters and
maybe $200-$1000 from short term room rentals ,so maybe
$1200 Conservatively,so net expense $2167.Offsets the expenseof aluxury apartment.But not shown here
drugs,escpecially HGH,total $600 or so a month.
Plus travel.My bank account dippedwhen I went to the US for
plus traveled 3 times around Colombia.
Also I am working on businessideas,havesme money invested
paying my Colombian partner to brainstorm that with me.
So,what would be a middle ground? I am guessing maybe $1200 a month,
2,800,000 pesos.Good life,not extravagent.And if a guy were settled down and not dating maybe less.
Pete
