How much money do you need to live happily in California (USA)? In other countries?
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- How much money do I need to live comfortably in California? Answer in this video!
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I've recently been trying to calculate my spending and figure out how much money I need to be happy and to live a comfortable life. First, it's important to understand what a comfortable life is. For me it means having enough money to develop my talents and not worry about saving on food or going to low quality shops. Second, being happy for me means being able to develop my talents, grow my business. I need money on a new camera, new microphone (so you would stop commenting how bad the sound is haha!).
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We made 150k a year in silicon valley, with 2 cars that were already paid for and we always felt broke. It's very tough to save money in CA with the high taxes and rent over 3K a month.
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!
here in costa rica i own 1800$ per month as an engineer...
Appartment= 300$
food=200$
water=20$
light=30$
Internet=30$ (5 Mbps )
Transport=50$ (bus)
Total spent: 630$
At the end i got: *1170$*
And at the end i live quite good to be honest, here you dont make a lot of money as in the USA but you can live well here. is not how much you can obtain, all depends on the costs of things depending of where you live.
Is nice to see people from other countries telling us their stories :D
my english is trash xd i know
Francisco Monge Es que la verdad no se le debe responder porque la chica está equivocada, no se puede comparar cuando se necesita en dólares en otros países porque el dólar es muy fuerte en comparación con la moneda local de otro país que no sea uno desarrollado, tu país no produce dólares entonces debe comprarlos, y son traídos mediantes las exportaciones, con lo cual el dólar sube o baja. Se podría decir cuantos sueldos mínimos necesitas para vivir bien, sería más acertado. NO es que ganes poco en tu país y que te alcance para vivir sino que tu moneda local no es tan fuerte como el dólar y parece como que ganas poco cuando haces el cambio.
I passed TOEFL test today and ur tip on speaking helped me a lot, cuz I answered first 2 personal question with it thanks marina u helped me a lot
Was in France and quality of life is great...good food and wine at affordable prices, you can cycle pretty much everywhere in big cities! Perfect example of having less is more.. beautiful country too!
Hi, Marina ! I’m student from Baku, and I’m going to take exam Ielts the next week , i started watching your video recently, finally i want to say you really a good teacher and with your help I learned a lot !!! Thank you very much ❤️ Good luck❤️
Hi Marina, noticed your video about TOEFL preparation yesterday, and hung on your other videos, you are so bright, and inspiring. Will follow all your instructions on my big day, which is coming in four days. I am very nervous. Thank you for motivation.
I've lived in Italy,Belgium and Luxembourg and this what i think :
-in Milan, Italy you need only around $2,500 or €2,000 a month to live comfortably
-in Luxembourg you need almost twice that amount, around $5,000 or €4,000 a month
-in Antwerp you can get on with $4000 (€3,400) a month
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Love your videos :) Well done with this one and all the best! Subbed
Hi Marina! First of all, congratulations for the great idea on this video. From my perspective, to live comfortably and make our dreams become real we need some money, but not in the amount that some people on the video have mentioned. From my personal opinion, it depends on your age, the area you live in and the persperctives you may have from life. In the area where I live, around 5~7 thousand dollars are enough to do the majority of things that anyone would like to do. Thanks, keep up the good job and have a great day.
Salomao, from Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Retired, but rent etc. takes 72% of my monthly pension. I still manage to spend $1300-$1500 for everything, and I save $300-$500 per month for emergencies, gifts, travel, and charity. I traveled from ages 20-73 on my paid vacations. I could move to a cheaper country, and live on $500 per month and save $1500 per month. My groceries are ordered online, and any other things I need. I just need what I have.
Marina this seems to be a simple question, but can be very complicated. It all depends on what standard of living you desire and what you are used to. And yes both California and the Bay Area are some of the most expensive places to live in the USA. You have a great attitude and maturity to realize a person does not always have to own the best everything to be happy. Often times this is just ego and a status symbol. Also I am not sure why you personally are worried about your English speach. It is very good. I realize that takes practice and more thinking if English is not your native language. Keep up the good work and nice smile.
I don't think people can make a blanket statement saying that money isn't the key to happiness. People grow up in different cultures and socio-economic situations and some may really value money while others do not. Even if money isn't the "key" to happiness, it certainly contributes to it. Nobody wants to live barely getting by, so having more income to live comfortably might make some people really happy.
1kg (2lb) of Tomatoes cost around 4$ in California( googled it) here in India its below 0.5$ for the good quality ones, it is a eight fold difference! but on average most things are 2 times cheaper across asian countries, not electronics though. The answer to this question will change from country to country and I tend to agree with your answer, as I like to spend a lot on healthy food.
$3k for India and $6k USA for 2017 ( additional 7% inflation increase every year lol)
@ 6:51 - The Pakistani gentleman was probably talking in terms of Pakistani Rupees i.e 1 US $ = 104.28 Pak Rs. (as on 11th Spt'16),so 30,000 Pak Rs comes out to be approx 290 US $ and that is exactly what you need to be happy in 3rd World Countries :-/
LOL turkey is like that too
our economy was realy good untill america destroyed it
The US never intervened in turkey so how is that possible? :D
vanMrMann coup ,terorism, 3 million refugees, russian counciler killed
TanerPaker Fitness You really thought is was the US? Damn Propaganda. Please research better before commenting on the internet.
This was a good video. Actually what had led me to your channel was when I had begun doing research on the cost of living in San Fransico. California is a great state and I think San Fransico is a great city to live in. I was recently given an opportunity to take a job in San Fransico. The salary is higher than what I make now, I would be making six figures a year with great benefits. However in San Fransico the cost of living has become so high that it would still not be enough for me live comfortably. It would mean longer commute to work, move into a smaller living space, and I would be working more. So I chose to stay in Canada, where even though I make less, my cost of living is considerably lower. I work less, and get enough vacation time so that I can take many trips around the world. Anyways once again great video, you have a very mature outlook on life, and you seem to have a vibrant and colorful personality that make your videos enjoyable to watch.
good attitude for youngster and you'll achieved what you set-up for!!! 👍
I live in Dallas and work in IT. Would love to live by the beach but I’ve met many people coming from California telling me how over populated it’s become. I feel as if it’s kinda unfortunate that such a beautiful area is being destroyed
Even your editing improved, really improved
I totally agree with what you said, Marina.
Marina your video editing and shooting has so improved. I am from 2018. Oh and love your startup Idea.
Thank you, it was very wonderful video..
Well, it is about DISPOSABLE income. I would be euphoric to keep my entire salary. I could afford to eat at restaurants casually, travel and not to look at a price if I like something. But after Rent(in Los Angeles) Student Debt, and other necessities I have about 20% of my salary. :( I think in San Francisco rent is even more expensive.
amazing video 😍😍
I am from Serbia and I would be really happy if I could afford for myself to live without worrings about next month. Here we always need to make conpromises if we want to buy something for ourselves. For example, if I want to go to vacantion this year I need to save money for 10 months to afford it. Also, highly educated people have salaries from 400 to 600 euros which is small amount of money. Now I want to answer on your question. :) I need 1000e to live happier live here in Serbia. :) I hope that I will find a way to earn that amount of money every month.
I’m really like your videos ❤️🙂
really eye opening.....
What a cool starting
It's very costly in areas with high concentrations of hi-tech/business/financial companies: New York/Seattle/California (but the further south you go, the cheaper it gets in the US). Happiness is not money, but the fulfillment of life. Money largely determines your fulfillment of life as it determines where you get to live, the type of person you want to bring into your life, what kind of car you can own, etc.
This is different across countries. Countries with subsidized education and healthcare place less emphasis on making money and more emphasis on peaceful living (with higher taxes to compensate), like Europe and Canada.
While the US is largely a free market and capitalism because everyone is forced to pay for everything...so ultra emphasis is placed on making money. Look at how much people are paying to go to school.....this also places stress on becoming successful at a young age.
For me, how much money = "it depends." Depends on the type of life style I value and where I want to live. Since I know I want a hi-tech career (plus I'm building my own company online), I would say 8k a month. This will be between my day job and own company as I want dual or more streams of income. Or if my own thing takes off well....I will do it a lot and earn close to that amount.
I will say 30k a month is possible.....but that is a tremendous stress to keep making that and few careers provide that type of money. He either has to own his own company or go into the medical field/become a lawyer. If you just got money to travel and experience life.....you have plenty of fun (and it doesn't take even 100k to achieve that). My mom is a substitute teacher and she's traveling to Jamaica like 2 or 3 times a year.
Is $6k for you before or after taxes?
Just found you and subscribed. I'm 73 and the best advice I got was when I was your age: "Your health is everything." I did not understand completely then, but now I agree.
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!
My brother lives in southern California and he has a home. He says he makes a pension of $6,000 a month. He told me it's like winning the lottery. He travels around the world on occasion. He never invested in the stock market. I'm investing in the stock market and still trying to make it!
SORRY BUT THAT WAS CRINGY
Yeap! Spanish shame.
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!
The secret to happiness is to constantly live well within your means.... so when the time comes, you'll be ready to afford the occasional splurge. Living in the SF Bay Area myself, I know how very true this is. And what exactly do I splurge on? Nothing much lately..... i'm too into the habit of living well within my means...... it's kind of addicting; i treat it like a game, challenging my own self-discipline! :P For example, while I certainly had enough money to jump on the smartphone bandwagon of the late 2000's/early 2010's, I actually didn't buy my first smartphone until about a month ago. And no.... i don't do anything social with it.... i only bought it because I could EASILY show people pictures of what I'm trying to look for at the store.... because I can't count the times when they had no clue what I was talking about........ and scrolling through a large photo on an old, flip-top, non-smartphone was just so painfully sloooooowwwwwwwwwwwww. :\ Like using a 30 year old computer on "today's" internet..... it's not gonna work out well. >_< So yeah... i bought it purely out of necessity (and out of frustration with old tech).
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!
Please make a video on information about studying a Bachelor's degree in Germany .
I got happy just to watch you.
I saw this video and was like: here we go with another rational logic explanation. Love it, thanks!
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!
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Ohhh Marine, you sing so beautifully ❤️love you 😚😚😚
In india 1 dollar is 64-67 Indian rupees and you need 30k for 1 person to live comfortably not happily or around 150000 indian rs for 3-4 person to live in a comfortable zone.....but actually at the same time if you want here to live happily you need 500000 rs for a family of 3-4 person to live happily which is equal to around 7782 dollar for your good food,house,personal car,your child school or collage fee and having some fun out there with family
Here in Brazil is more expensive, because all things is expensive and the normal salary is not enough to pay the basics bills.
I live in California near Los Angeles, I'm broke all the time but happy
You need 1,000,000,000,000,000 $ to live in California
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!
Молодчинка Марина, такое придумала! Звонить людям из других стран и спрашивать их сколько им надо денег для счастья :) Хороший способ попрактиковать свой Английский.
Ok I need a normal rented room and food (any kinds of food) so I may not starve to death, how much do I need a month
Ur videos are really brilliant ur very cool# love frm india
I must mention that the person who needed 30000 did not specified his currency and he seemed indian by his accent so do not assume it $30000. It could be anything. :)
I had a Russian family as a client that told me they didn't hang out with other Russians because they are really always chasing the money and talking about who has what and bragging and they don't want to raise the kids like that. I can see that because I also know a Czech and he is crazy in to money. I can see how foreigners coming to the US which is highly a capitalistic country and they see all the options when before it was a lot of struggles in their home country so they go crazy. They some how think also, they are a citizen if they pay the taxes. NO, that does not make you a citizen, to government perhaps, but not to people around you. Your money to the US do not make you wanted by the people, so please don't come here thinking we want that type of people. I do agree with your amount per month because it's San Francisco where a one bedroom can cost a million to buy. And any guy who lived a long life, knows when a woman is going for the money, especially in Silicon Valley, we'll just go for the younger girl in the future, if that's what you want, so don't think you're fooling anyone.
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but your ideal amount for a month is actually perfect because that shud take care of the rent and food plus transportation and you wud still be left with remaining amount of approximately $1500 t0 $2000 as your savings so considering 6Gs a perfect amount for a month wudnt be naive...
How well do you speak English, judging by the money you are from Russia? And here I do not know how and probably on my new channel made an incredible amount of mistakes .....;)) I really want to learn this beautiful language! I subscribed to you my friend! Friend !!!
love you ,matina
hiii mam....what is the best tofel score to study Phd., in usa..???????.u said about undre graduate and post graduate scores but not about Phd score....
It's not so much that money brings happiness, it's that lack of it can lead to unhappiness.
I would have loved a bit more specific advice and practical information about California prices, taxes etc... This didn't really answer the question for me...
6000$ 😳, Oh my... I thought 3000$ 4000$ (sorry my English badly)😬
As a student who doesn't need to pay for Ap classes/ university, rent, food or transportation... So currently, Ithink that I need 100$ a month to live happy!!
TechTestApp wait dude do you get paid for all of that? Please help me out man i want to study in the us. How much do you get for all of that a month?
Remember! Money make the world goes around!
She’s so perfect 😩❤️
I have experience in different countries I've been an in average to have an almost good family life, you need monthly:
Latin America: US$1.000
America: US$3.000
Europe: US$2.000
And this means nothing, because America was the cheapest in my opinion, is better to compare the minimum wages and the price of common things like food, cars or rent. Earning US$1.000 in latin america is very hard and the price of things is higher.
Hi, I'm a student from Taiwan. Recently I've described your videos, may I ask some questions about TOEFL speaking test? Actually I got only 17 in my speaking just few days ago, I'm afraid of speaking out loud and don't have any chance to speak English, which means that practice answering the question on my own cannot improve my speaking. In this situation, do you have any advice or website for recommendations to solve the problem? Thanks :)
why dont you make international friends who speak english and practise with them ..
as in social media..
Wow. $6K a month to live happily in California. I guess that is why I left Southern California (where I was born and raised) and moved to Oregon after college. To me happiness is working my own hours and having plenty of time off. I also don't want too much stress. I can live well on about $4K a month. That is living simple, small apartment and free time spent hiking locally, playing Frisbee golf and doing organic gardening and on personal projects. I tend to camp out on vacations so it's mostly a matter of getting the time off rather than spending thousands on air travel and hotels. To me it's worth it to be able to only work about 25-30 hours a week and meet my needs. Of course, moving to a world-class locale where you will spend most of your off-time so you don't need to travel a lot to "get away" makes a lot of sense. That's why I moved to the fairly remote but beautiful south Oregon coast!
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!!!
At my dad's house I put 16 cups of water in the vacuum cleaner
I'm pretty sure it starts at $10MM and goes up from there.
I love you:)
I LOVE YOU.
that's it.
your smile :)
How can I practice my English with you
Charismatic personality
Stupid question on how much money! Depends on location and what disposable income is
I think these people didn't get your question Marina 😂
how much money needs for a one day in US
God Marina do you make my day with that kind of beautiful voice! Make a TH-cam channel just singing songs all day!!!
I didn't get the good answer !! 😒
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!
Dat intro
How can we sue this service on linguatrip.com? I can't find this service on the website.
+Barry liu we had to temporarily stop because of the technical issues. It will be back soon! :)
OK , THANKS .I think that's a really good function,looking forward to it
marina
6000 dolars.... o__O In Spain only politicians, people who work on tv shows, and people like this earn that amount of money ... the normal people earn around 1000 dollars/euros a month, many live with less.
Hello, Marina! Thank you for this video, it is really interesting. In my opinion: if anyone have a lot of money - spend money on education and health, it will be better investment in life :)
What happen if you do not have 5k if you have only 2.5k for to live in California, you are 1/2 happy...
The average is around 40,000 to live off of.
"or for example take my blogging activity"
Судя по деньгам в начале видео, ты точно сейчас не в калифорнии.
I believe that Dubai is more expensive
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The one from Pakistan must mean 30k in Rupees not Dollar. He or you must have not got it correctly.
I’m going back
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!
Like Marina. I need couple hundred thousand $ in year to be free
Maybe Zimbabwe dollars.
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!!!
разве 4.000 рублей в Калифорнии - это деньги?
Really? 4 thousand of russian money it's normal?
if you go to some asian country to teach english,$6,000/month is very easy to be got.
Really? need some kind of certification or other requirements, got a link with more info related to this?
Hello Marina ,You are very beautiful in this video
Marina as I am now honestly if only you can just send three thousand dollars to me am telling you ve really touched soul
I love you
Money is not related to happiness. But when have no money 🔚😂
Hey marina, where in Russia are you from? Ps. My moms name is Marina ;)
THe most Importent thing ever Marina, do you have a Boyfriend?
exactly, so many people have fallen in love with you
Mehmet High no she does not but you can try xaxaxxa
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No, her daddy, who is a real estate developer in Russia, pays for her lifestyle.
500000 would be enough to make me happy I'm living in Haiti
Ur pretty 😍
7:13 1m probably jay z and beyonce make that much in a month 😂
I live in finland and i want to live in usa california and im gonna leave finland in 3yrs
Amppu 12 why ? Finland is more beautiful and these are a lot of chance to get a good lifestyle !!
Amppu 12 come to San Diego
علي السكوني do you live in San Diego !! Is it cheap ?
yasser ajdid The weather
dxrk martinez i would stay in finland.
I'll travel to California the next year and my college will give me $5000 to live six months. :(
come to Mexico, study in the UNAM is free if you are smart.
Mario Perez soy de la UNAM, de hecho ellos me dieron la beca para estudiar en California.
Manuel García then it is a lot of money if you consider the current situation in Mexico.
Mario Perez como aplicó?
*amazingbillionaire_hacks* via lG never disappoints being making about 8k every week and he does it for free, it's supposed to be impossible but apparently he's Mr impossible( Internet Ethan Hunt)!!!!
If a person is rich so 1rich= 500poor