Digital Nomads

$3.6k for the UK is incredibly off unless you’re solely talking about London or maybe somewhere like Oxford/Cambridge. It doesn’t cost anywhere near that.

I live in the South East, the “expensive part” of the country outside London, and living costs alone even without being particularly frugal or careful, would be half that. Nomads obviously pay a fair bit more, but this isn’t even ballpark.

Preferred of this same list could Be city based and specific to living in a neighborhood where expats would like to live (ie plentiful of cafes with avocado toast).

Germans are poor as fuck. Most don't even make the $3300 you listed here, so you can live with way less than that. A realistic guess would be around $1300 plus health insurance if you don't have a car.

Bangladeshi here, 699USD (±77000BDT as of today's exchange rate) is good enough for a family of four in any upscale part of Dhaka

You could live the best possible life in Dhaka for 400 a month without any hassle

Averages like this are about as useful as internet speed averages for locations. It really doesn't help because all we care about is the details of the specific accommodation that we rent out. It's similar to the way a 5 Mbps avg download speed in some city in Mexico means nothing when I find an Airbnb in that same city that gets 100Mbps/100Mbps. It could be useful to see extremes I guess.

Huh. Today I live on 25% the cost of living in my country.

What are you exactly including on your made-up "cost of living" calculation?

How many beers and cups of coffee per day? Eating at home or on fancy restaurants?

Please give details about your assumptions and calculation base before anything else

Is this measured in HCOL cities because you certainly don't need to make $55K to live in most areas of the USA.

Thailand is definitely doable for 1000 dollars per month. Rent 1 room apartment = 150 dollars per month Food = 300 dollars per month (Eating in Thai restaurants the non-expensive options three times a day. With cooking yourself it could be done with 100 dollars anf healthy) Leaves still room for 450 dollars for visa, health insurance (if even needed), scooter rental, power etc

Lol you have Thailand at nearly double what I figured it would be.

So how you figure it costs over 2k/mo? Luxury condo in a tower and western restaurants every day?

Yea this is wrong . You can live way cheaper than 4 k a month in Ireland most of the country is living on 1200 bucks a month .

2k for Thailand ….. are you insane did you cost in a live in wife …….

How the heck is Germany calculated higher than Sweden??

This is a terrible attempt man.

Just delete this post.

I think this should be done by city, otherwise it's kinda useless, and the number of cities based on the size of the country. Brazil, USA, etc is really not comparable within the same country, too heterogeneous.

Also, there are massive differences between summer and winter for many countries, Croatia rent price is basically 3x more during summer, so this should be considered.

And since we are in a DN reddit, average rent should be averaged up by combining it with the average airbnb and other short rental prices, otherwise is also useless, because very rarely can a DN get a monthly price for what would be a yearly contract.

Armenia is completely off. The average person makes like $500 there (and that’s in the capital).

I can say that the estimate for Senegal (specifically for Dakar) is rather accurate if you want to live by Western standards/sense of comfort. I was born and raised there until end of high school then have been living in Europe for 10 years (but going back home every summer for the holidays), and I noticed this year that the prices in the capital are quite similar to the ones I have in Brussels right now (which is totally crazy given that the minimum wage is around 100€/month).

Appreciate the effort behind this! And gauging from the responses, the “inaccurate” data led to some informative conversations!

This is interesting. I'm in USA, NYC, the most expensive city probably all things considered. With rent (2 bedroom) and other things I am spending ~$3500 a month.

If I get a one bedroom that cost would go down so $4500 seems high

So only from the perspective of American digital nomads based on your comments about food. Please make sure to mention that in the post. Not all digital nomads are US Americans.

This list is super wrong and some of these countries I've lived are way too various and diverse to categorize by country as opposed to city

That's a pretty impressive roster. As for cost comparisons between cities/countries, have you tried Expatistan?

Portugal being cheaper than Poland means this is bullshit.
I spend months in Portugal and rent in touristic places is expensive as hell unlike Poland where You can live cheaply.

Your figures seem really high for the countries I have visited. What are your factors that made you come up with these numbers.

Isn't this information already out there? It also changes all the time due to inflation. This seems like a waste of time.

$4569 a month in the states? Are you renting a place in LA and driving a high end car?

I think if the data existed to give the medialn cost of living for one person in a one bedroom apt, the values would be more realistic as the extreme lifestyles wouldn't be increasing the average so much.

Would be nice to have a second column with rating to know if its worth it or not

Currently living in Costa Rica, town of 10k, was just in Thailand. It's approximately double the CoL in Costa Rica if not more and it's shown as a few hundred less than Thailand. Even Bangkok was way cheaper across the board.

Just fyi. Cool idea though

Bangladesh it is.

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