Sarah Wilson
Travel Writer with the award winning retirement travel adventure blog LifePart2
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I wanted to jump headlong into my new found freedom and relish life like I never had before. In Life Part 2, I wanted to drink life from a firehose and discover the things I had overlooked or sacrificed for my career. Once we get past our fears, begin trying scary new things and let go of our knee-jerk prejudices, magical things start to happen. The things you things own you end up owning you.” Instead of lightening the load, what if we intentionally tried to keep things light in the first place?
If you don’t mind living in an older building or being a bit further out, you can easily find a place for as little as 200-250 USD per month. Thus utility bills are usually significantly higher in the winter months, especially if you’re living in an older building that’s poorly sealed. A 5GB mobile data package on Magti costs 3.60 USD for 30 days, and an unlimited 30-day package costs 45 USD. If you’re living in an apartment in the city centre, eating out three times a week and using public transportation to get around, then you can expect to spend somewhere in the neighbourhood of 950-1200 USD per month for two people.
Taxis are more expensive, they cost about 60 CZK (3 USD) + 30 CZK (1,5 USD) per 1 km. If you want to buy a bottled beer in a supermarket, you will pay around 12 CZK (0,6 USD) but you can find a beer as cheap as 7 CZK (0,4 USD). Cappuccino costs about 50 CZK (USD), a glass of water (0,3 l) is about 30 CZK (unfortunately it’s not free as in other parts of the world). In case you live alone in a flat or apartment, your average monthly cost will be around 16 000 CZK (750 USD) including your free time activities and transportation cost.
In the center of Athens, even in Kolonaki, you can find one-bedroom apartments starting at €600 month, and nicer, furnished one bedrooms for around €850. Electricity will be about €60 – 80 a month, and internet connection plus a landline starts at about €40 – And speaking of cheeses, most artisanal Greek cheeses cost between €8 and 20 a kilo, with most at around €12 – 15. A local merchant can point you to excellent local bottles in a spectrum of prices, from the single digits and up through around €40 for a finer bottle, with many choices in the €15 – 20 range.