I'm American and my hasband is from Greece we decided to move back to USA . My hasband has a good payed job and I have part time job, his salary is 1600$ and mine 400$ monthly, our rent here is 600$ monthly and our food expences are 450$. The base sallary in Greece is for 10-12 hours work per day and without having the right to have any break at all is 600-700$ monthly. Obvously we can not afford to buy a house witch will cost us 200.000 $ or a new car costing 15.000$ or having any children considering that the goverment does not help at all. Our dream will be to buy an appartment , having 1 or2 children and managing all familly costs by a full time job for my hasband and a part time job for me. How high sould be each of our salaries to live an ordinary life without having wories how to pay at the and of the month: electricity,heat,food? By the way our last electricity bill was ( for four months 1450$ !!!!!!! ) and we rent an 900 square feet appartment. My relatives in Sacramento told me that rent will cost us 1400$ monthly , food expenses 800$ ,car expenses 300$. By earnig 5000$-6000$ a month it will be ok for a start. Our expectations are really low and all these years we have leared to spend very little in everything, no new cloths, no restaurants,no new shoes allmost NO!! in everything I would say. So knowing that people in USA spent a lot of money generaly in shoping they tend to have higher stadards than ours in what is basic cost of living. What do you think? The gas price here is 6-7$ per galon
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I don't life in Sacramento so I don't have exact figures but you can look at moving, rental and real estate sites to get some idea of what your costs are going to be. I've listed a few sites that I use when we relocate.
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