You're still paying insane amounts for a house that size in Houston. I know many people with much bigger houses and they're bill is never even close to half of that even with a pool.

Poorly insulated houses are a killer. Since the hubby inherited it, take the money you WOULD be paying for a house payment and get it in shape. Most utilty companies (gas, electric) will come out for free and show you where problems are. We had a 3400 sq home before this one with $500-600 electric/gas every month because it was so poorly insulated.

I'm having problems with the AC running in basement even with the vents closed, but I saw some magnetic vent covers I'm going to try. The basement is almost toally subterrain so it's cold there already and with the thermostat on the next floor up, the basement is like ice and I'm sure I'm losing AC there.

Hell, it could be something as simple as turning down the thermostat on the water heater.

My cost of living just went way up. :-/

$350 a month for living expenses.
$1400 a month for weed and Hot Wheels diecast cars, I buy quite a few fairly expensive little cars ever month.

500-1000$

$3500/ mth covers my house,hydro,cable,car lease,phones and inernet.- Food,clothes,fun,and entertaimnent not included. :Oh crap

$4k will cover it all. I have 2 boys living at home, so that adds to it.

I live in the Philippines. It totally depends WHERE you want to live here and WHAT your lifestyle expectations are.

NORMALLY, $500 to $1K a month is fine for mid to lower level accommodations and lifestyle. If you live LARGE it will be more but that's the same for everywhere in the world. The only difference is its GENERALLY cheaper to live "large" here.

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my electric bill is $1000-1200/mo or so..

www.energypricesarekilling.com is a little site i made about it to send to the media

my total expenses between my gf and i (i support her, she's a student) are about 5k/mo.. we rent an apartment in orange county. if we owned a house, it'd be around 8k/mo

if i just paid the required bills it would be about 1700-2000/mo
have no car payments, have no credit card debts

i have a few sometimes expensive hobbies

looking for about 30 acres to buy so im figuring on increasing my monthly expenses slightly in the near future.

$1200+ a month including everything ..

I'm trying to get my expenses down the 2k a month range since I haven't really worked in almost 4 years now. I'm starting to get in a finacially embarressed situation. )-:

4 or 5k I would estimate.

oh, dont want to think about it :)
But Moscow is the most expensive city.

rent for apartment 900$ (heating inclusive)
internet: 60$
car: 300$
meal for 3 persons: 600$
energy 100$

About 3500 Euro:2 cents:

I don't see how some of you guys are living so cheap ... I wish I could do that, but a $600 apartment just wouldn't cut it for me :(

Rent: $3200/m
Cable Internet/TV: $200/m
Verizon Phone/Internet: $120/m
Water: $60/m
Electricity: $250/m
Food: $1200/m
Vehicle Gas: $1000/m
Car Payments: $2850/m

This is before any extracurricular activities/fun.

Total: $8880~

I don't see any major way of cutting it down either since its mostly made up of house and car payments. Oh well

:winkwink:

$7k. My condo fees alone are $760/m.

About 600$

100$ / month for your food? Man, that's at least the double for me !!

my bills are almost $4000 a month..my food bill alone is around $800

Stop living like a rock star dude:winkwink:

somewhere between 2 and 3k...

alot more now that I'm married and moved into a bigger house. We can't keep the basement warm at all. Weird since it is all newly built and all. Gotta have them come look at it.

Not to much

Thats real nice... Those are the 2 that add up the most. :thumbsup

I live in the downstairs unit of a duplex I own right now, so the rent from the top unit actually covers the entire mortgage, all of their utilities and some of mine. So I could survive off maybe $600/mo for my food, rest of my utilities, auto insurance, etc. But of course I typically spend at least 5-7x that, lol.

probably 4-5k. i could do it much cheaper if i wanted to though.

I am clearly living to0 high on the hog. $3k and i do not have a car or a mtge payment. This does not include food clothes or anything like that that. Just utilites, ins, maid, school for the kid and that type fo stuff.

My budget for fun is insane. That is where I need to get it under control. In fact I have no budget it is all impulse at this point.

alot :( plus im thinking of adding new car lease which will run 1k/month more :pimp

but ya, I toled myself from now on nomore spending on useless shit, im ganna save now :disgust

what kinda cars you got ? must be like 750li or sl55 :pimp

$50k


and thats just for the coke.

Me too ...

$8.97 :1orglaugh

Typically, cost of living is in direct proportion to the per capita income of a given area. I always check out answers.com for this stuff. For example, I'm in Hoboken NJ, which is in the top 100 cities of NJ as far as average income goes (#80) but a far cry from the most expensive city of Mantoloking. I love it here because rents are about half of what you might pay for an equivalent space in Manhattan yet it's closer to the city than any of its burrows and has lots of stuff to do.

$1000 to $1200 Canadian for mortgage, property taxes, oil (heat), electricity, water, house insurance. That does not include cable internet, 2 phone lines, satellite, food, smokes and whatever else.

Paying it all on time....
PRICELESS!!:thumbsup