$50 isn't a "good" living, meaning living large or anything. I'm saying that where I am from, $50 a day will easily cover all my expenses:
- $600 (mortgage, home expenses, for a four bedroom, two bathroom house, suitable for a family of five)
- $600 food bill (buys a perfectly adequate bodybuilding diet)
- $200 gas
- $100 car insurance
- $95 (land line, cell phone, internet)
Then I have miscellaneous expenses like car repairs and gym membership and so on.
I live like a miser and literally do not spend more than $500 a year on myself above and beyond my base expenses. Everything else is saved or reinvested into my web design business.
I am from Northwestern Ontario and with the closure of several mills, people are poor here. It is routine for some of my friends to literally not have the money to go to the movies on cheap night or catch the bus. So when I can build a FLASH based website for easily $1,000 or more and do it in a weekend, that is a lot of money around here.
Socialism is currently helping Thunder Bay, but it was socialist overhead (union wages and the like) which caused the closure of mills to begin with. Usually MORE socialism is never the answer, but the welfare state of my city is at least preventing people from starving (although it got them there to begin with).
Damn, a $600 mortgage? Even to rent a room around here $600 is rare. Honestly I wish I had that decipline to almost mise my money. I was always a big thinker and dreamer. I like nice things and try to give the best for my family on what I make. But as a result of my "big dreaming", unfortunatly I have a $6800 house payment, a two car payments, one for 450.00 and another for $700.00 private school for my son, health insurance, etc, etc,etc.
And people wonder why I work 12-14 hrs per day
