• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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      According to Google you can stay in a hostel for about $350/2 weeks, which works about to about $10k a year. You’d probably be too broke to eat well, and have nothing left for activities.

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        That… kinda sounds like how a lot of people on minimum wage live right now.

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        With some more googling you can get an apartment for like 500-700€/month in madrid and if we say 700€ per month for living(should afford a relatively decent lifestyle in spain(apparently minimum wage there is ~1200€/month) so the ~30k€ after the flights and surgery seems reasonable to live for 2 years there.

        Internet sources put the cost of living in spain to around 1000-1800€/month for one person

        • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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          Wow, I’m surprised their minimum is about the same as in the US ($1,256.66/month). I guess it’s not as bad as here if you can find rent that low.

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            Yeah in many european countries while the minimum wage can be on par or lower than in the US but most of the time the cost of living is actually also low enough for it to be an actually liveable wage

            Living in finland i could (for now until our new government makes “improvements”) live semi-comfortably working only 30h/week on minimum wage*

            *finland has no national minimum wage but unions negotiate baseline contracts by field regularly(the contracts often include yearly raises to counteract inflation and also raises depending on number of years worked)

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          What kind of apartments are these? One bedrooms, studios? A single bedroom in a shared apartment?

          (Can you tell I’ve been burned by renting descriptions before?)

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      It’s a meme from like 2014 so that’s why.

      The theory behind it us probably okay today even if the numbers are a bit stale.

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    Fun fact, Did you know an entire American subculture of young people have grown up around the idea that they can fly to Spain to get their hip replaced? They don’t have a lot of money so they tend not to work and smoke a lot of weed they call themselves hippies because they plan to get their hips replaced in Spain.