can you live by 500 dollars in month , in your country ?

[esmith]

Live on $500 a month? Depends on what you consider "living".
Do you have to have internet? No
Do you have to have TV? No
Do you have to have a car? No
Do you have to pay for health insurance? No
Do you have to have a phone? No
Do you have to have your own roof over your head? No
Something tells me "surfer dude" can probably make it on $500 a month. Don't know who "surfer dude" is? Just google "welfare surfer dude".

 

[Godobeyer]

that is true but its also true i pay about 25% of my pay to taxes

here taxes for merchant is about 250 dollars per year

the employed that's other issue , they not suppose to pay taxes for retirement

 

[columbus]

But how much income tax would you actually pay if your income was only $500 a month?

Around here income taxes are only a part of the tax structure.
When Bush slashed taxes on income it caused a huge shortfall in Indiana revenue. So they cranked up taxes.
Sales tax went up 40%. Property taxes nearly as much. They just shifted the tax burden from rich people to the less rich.
That way the rich people could invest more in Chinese manufacturing companies and Indian tech companies.
Tom

 

[Godobeyer]

Live on $500 a month? Depends on what you consider "living".
Do you have to have internet? No
Do you have to have TV? No
Do you have to have a car? No
Do you have to pay for health insurance? No
Do you have to have a phone? No
Do you have to have your own roof over your head? No
Something tells me "surfer dude" can probably make it on $500 a month. Don't know who "surfer dude" is? Just google "welfare surfer dude".

TV is by money !!! ? don't you have dishs satellites ?
health insurance !!!

here the goverment hospitales are free and drugs is free for employed people or whom paid the insurance bills and retirement (bills of insurance by dollars cost almost $250 ) per year .

the privet hospitales thats other issue .

 

[dust1n]

i guess our political system now is focus on avoid "Arabic Spring" , focus on stability more than democraty of guns .cause we suffered from period of war against terrorism since 1992 to 2002 .

Yes it's going to better , then 90" cause of stability and wise leadership .

Makes sense. Sometimes immediate peace is a better option for desperate situations. Keep the peace and the rest will follow, as long as ideas are allowed to exist and flourish.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Hi all

I just want to know if 500 dollars enough to live for month in different country by different currency costs (by convert it to your currency)

for exemple :
I am from Algeria :

500 dollars converted to Algerian currency , cost 52954 Dinars

52945 Dinars make live very normal month in Algeria "like a little king" .

edited to add currency converter:
check this site :

http://www.xe.com/fr/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=500&From=USD&To=DZD

my friend from USA , said "he spend 500 dollars for a week !!! and it's not enough to live in USA because of taxes !!!"

can you live normal by 500 dollars in month ?

In my part of Canada (not a big city), renting one room in a house would cost around $400 to $500 a month.

Someone who made only $500 a month would be considered poor. A person who made that much here wouldn't pay taxes at all - in fact, he might be able to get government assistance (if there's a reason why he can't make more besides just not wanting to work).

The poverty line for a single adult with no children in Ontario is $19930 per year, or about 133000 Armenian Dinar per month. Below that level, it can be very difficult to pay for basic needs like food, shelter, and clothing.

Normal minimum wage is $11 per hour here. IOW, it's illegal for most employers to pay their employees less than the equivalent of 189 dinars per hour.

 

[columbus]

TV is by money !!! ? don't you have dishs satellites ?
health insurance !!!

here the goverment hospitales are free and drugs is free for employed people or whom paid the insurance bills and retirement (bills of insurance by dollars cost almost $250 ) per year .

the privet hospitales thats other issue .

Who actually pays for all this?
I don't mean "the government", somebody would have to give the government the money to pay.
Tom

 

[Godobeyer]

Makes sense. Sometimes immediate peace is a better option for desperate situations. Keep the peace and the rest will follow, as long as ideas are allowed to exist and flourish.

for my opinion we have freedom in Algeria , but as we had experience voilence before , we will not drop in that again for Arabic Spring .

the peace and stability make the country stronger in economy , in all sides .

civil war and terrorism made failed country , see Libya and Syria and Iraq .

 

[Godobeyer]

Who actually pays for all this?
I don't mean "the government", somebody would have to give the government the money to pay.
Tom

the goverment take the money from , the oil and gaz companies : sonatrach and sonelgaz and some exporting products .

btw oil and gaz companies are not privet , they belong to goverment .

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Do you have to have internet? No
Do you have to have TV? No
Do you have to have a car? No
Do you have to pay for health insurance? No
Do you have to have a phone? No
Do you have to have your own roof over your head? No

Do you have food? No.
Do you have money for health care? No.
Do you have money for an emergency? No.
Do you have money for your kid's school stuff? No.
Do you have money to take off a day from work when you are sick and you really should stay home because you are contagious? No.
Do you have money for a place to live? Only where the cost of living is very low, which means there aren't many good jobs, and you are lucky enough to find something that only cost $500 a month or less.

Something tells me "surfer dude" can probably make it on $500 a month. Don't know who "surfer dude" is? Just google "welfare surfer dude".

Considering where he lives is a lot more expensive than here, and here is one of the cheapest places to live in America, and $500 a month is not enough, where he is at may be just a bit over half of his monthly rent, or more.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

here the goverment hospitales are free and drugs is free for employed people or whom paid the insurance bills and retirement (bills of insurance by dollars cost almost $250 ) per year .

We don't have those here. If you don't have insurance or insurance that isn't good, you get to go to low-wage sliding-scale clinics where you get what you pay for. Myself, I did finally qualify for the state's insurance plan (Not America, but specifically the state of Indiana), and it pays for pretty much everything. But, officially, America does not consider healthcare a right.

 

[Godobeyer]

In my part of Canada (not a big city), renting one room in a house would cost around $400 to $500 a month.

Someone who made only $500 a month would be considered poor. A person who made that much here wouldn't pay taxes at all - in fact, he might be able to get government assistance (if there's a reason why he can't make more besides just not wanting to work).

The poverty line for a single adult with no children in Ontario is $19930 per year, or about 133000 Armenian Dinar per month. Below that level, it can be very difficult to pay for basic needs like food, shelter, and clothing.

Normal minimum wage is $11 per hour here. IOW, it's illegal for most employers to pay their employees less than the equivalent of 189 dinars per hour.

it's very expensive rent room in a house in canada , in my region by $500 you can rent a home for half of year

the problem of rent is happened in north (where the beachs) , all Algerians goes to sea , to enjoy .

the rent goes high in front of beachs , the villas may cost 400000 dinars which mean 3787 dollars per month

I convert it to Algerian dinar not to Armenian once.

 

[Koldo]

Hi all

I just want to know if 500 dollars enough to live for month in different country by different currency costs (by convert it to your currency)

for exemple :
I am from Algeria :

500 dollars converted to Algerian currency , cost 52954 Dinars

52945 Dinars make live very normal month in Algeria "like a little king" .

edited to add currency converter:
check this site :

http://www.xe.com/fr/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=500&From=USD&To=DZD

my friend from USA , said "he spend 500 dollars for a week !!! and it's not enough to live in USA because of taxes !!!"

can you live normal by 500 dollars in month ?

In Brazil, it depends.
If you don't need to pay for any rent, and if you don't have children ( or anyone who depends on your income ), yes.
You will still be considered poor or low-mid class though.

 

[suncowiam]

$500 in silicon valley gets doesn't get you much...

It's all relative. The next question is the medium income of the local region to make it all balance out.

 

[illykitty]

http://www.xe.com/fr/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=3200&From=GBP&To=DZD

I am curious why 1200+2000 pound make you live normal (not rich) in UK , but if you convert the same value money from Pound to Dinars it's almost 3200 pound = 521925 dinars , it's make you live as king in Algeria .


if my salary is 521925 dinars.

you know what.

i will buy what every i want villas or cars , or even goes where every you want by plane .Dubia,Paris,NY,Hawie...etc
i will plan to buy a privet plane and buy NASA too

Lol well if you ever do, have fun!

But the reason we are only comfortable is I don't work anymore because I am mentally ill and had to stop. We are comfortable on just my husband's salary but if I still worked, then we would move to a new location (the town we want to live in is one of the most expensive in the UK) and we wouldn't need to worry much about limits in spending. Though honestly, we don't care so much to have much material possessions, we care more about fun experiences, food and travelling. I'm not interested in having a huge house or very expensive things, for example.

The thing is, salary is adjusted to the location. So if we lived in your country, I doubt my husband would make as much. We'd probably still be middle class and not "live as kings".

 

[savagewind]

TV is by money !!! ? don't you have dishs satellites ?
health insurance !!!

here the goverment hospitales are free and drugs is free for employed people or whom paid the insurance bills and retirement (bills of insurance by dollars cost almost $250 ) per year .

the privet hospitales thats other issue .

So cute! I can put up any number of satellite dishes, but I won't get anything unless I pay.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Hmm, live? Yes. But it would be very uncomfortable.

Extremely. I'm thinking a boarding house room with shared facilities and literally walking everywhere.

 

[savagewind]

Extremely. I'm thinking a boarding house room with shared facilities and literally walking everywhere.

Be healthy!

 

[Twilight Hue]

Not because of taxes. Because of high costs for other services and commodities.

Yep. To offset the high cost of corporate taxes passed on to the consumer.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Be healthy!

I had a friend who did that although later he bought himself a car.