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You mention 150€/day in the comment thread. I'm struggling to think where in the world you couldn't stay on that budget if you spend some time looking for cheaper accommodation (hostel or something like airbnb) and mind a bit where you eat. Australia seems (per Wikipedia) to have the highest minimum wage at 18$/hour, ×8h to € comes to 127€/day. Sure, temporary accommodation costs like five times more than more permanent places, but in terms of food and transport you can pretty much do whatever the locals do so that, on the whole, you should be able to meet that budget pretty much anywhere
In Europe, Iceland might be the only place where you'd really have to plan ahead to get to an average of 150€/day as tourist. It's Europe's most sparsely populated country and lots of things need to be imported, making essentials like food expensive and accommodation options few and far between. If you don't want to drive a long distance every day (outside of the wider Reykjavík area at least) you'll easily spend three quarters of that daily budget on accommodation, and with food being expensive even in supermarkets and needing a rental car to get anywhere, you'll exceed the budget on a lot of the days
So that's challenge mode! I'm curious what values people who tried to cheapskate Iceland get to. We were at 290€/day for 2 persons. That's including the rental car, eating out most days (not at expensive places necessarily, but sometimes simply the only place), and we booked reasonably priced but not always the cheapest option for accommodation. This price excludes costs of attractions like the lava show, boat tour, swimming pool, etc.—the country is plenty beautiful to travel to without needing those necessarily, though I'd recommend all of the above. This amount is for 2 persons, but the car and rooms don't scale much when you're alone so a per-person cost price wouldn't be fair