Post: #1

Okay so I've done some thinking about calculating travel budget's, and here is version one of my system. Someone give it a go and I'll spit out an exact figure for you.

1. What country will you be visiting? (Pick only Brazil and Colombia for now)

2. Will you be mostly moving or mostly staying in one place?
( ) Mostly moving
( ) Mostly staying

3. How will your accomodations be like?
( ) Mostly hostels
( ) Mostly roach hotels
( ) Mostly good hotels
( ) Mostly long-term rentals in decent area

4. Dinky towns or primetime cities?
( ) Mostly small or medium-sized towns
( ) Mostly large cities

5. How many times a week will you go out?
( ) 1-2
( ) More than 2

6. How's your diet like?
( ) Mostly junk food and snacks
( ) I cook healthy food for myself
( ) Mostly restaurants

7. Are you a risk taker when it comes to transportation?
( ) I mostly walk with my pack or take cheap buses
( ) I mostly take cabs

8. Do you plan on having sex with the local women?
( ) Yes
( ) No

9. How do you plan to fill your time during the day?
( ) Mostly sight-seeing and shit like that
( ) Mostly doing my own work

10. Do you plan on taking occasional language courses?
( ) Yes
( ) No
( ) I plan on intensive courses

Post: #2

(11-19-2009 07:13 PM)Roosh Wrote:  Okay so I've done some thinking about calculating travel budget's, and here is version one of my system. Someone give it a go and I'll spit out an exact figure for you.

1. What country will you be visiting? (Pick only Brazil and Colombia for now)
Brazil

2. Will you be mostly moving or mostly staying in one place?
( ) Mostly moving
(x) Mostly staying

3. How will your accomodations be like?
( ) Mostly hostels
( ) Mostly roach hotels
( ) Mostly good hotels
(x) Mostly long-term rentals in decent area

4. Dinky towns or primetime cities?
( ) Mostly small or medium-sized towns
(x) Mostly large cities

5. How many times a week will you go out?
(x) 1-2
( ) More than 2

6. How's your diet like?
( ) Mostly junk food and snacks
( ) I cook healthy food for myself
(x) Mostly restaurants

7. Are you a risk taker when it comes to transportation?
( ) I mostly walk with my pack or take cheap buses
(x) I mostly take cabs

8. Do you plan on having sex with the local women?
(x) Yes
( ) No

9. How do you plan to fill your time during the day?
( ) Mostly sight-seeing and shit like that
(x) Mostly doing my own work

10. Do you plan on taking occasional language courses?
( ) Yes
( ) No
(x) I plan on intensive courses

*cringes at inevitable cost*

I'm starting to think I'll just spend a month in Rio, then go to Vitoria or Florianopolis in February/March, avoid the Carnival insanity with a decent base of Portuguese.

Post: #3

1. What country will you be visiting? Brazil

2. Will you be mostly moving or mostly staying in one place?
(X) Mostly moving
( ) Mostly staying

3. How will your accomodations be like?
(X) Mostly hostels (and couch surfing)
( ) Mostly roach hotels
( ) Mostly good hotels
( ) Mostly long-term rentals in decent area

4. Dinky towns or primetime cities?
() Mostly small or medium-sized towns
(X) Mostly large cities

5. How many times a week will you go out?
( ) 1-2
(X) More than 2

6. How's your diet like?
(X) Mostly junk food and snacks
( ) I cook healthy food for myself
( ) Mostly restaurants

7. Are you a risk taker when it comes to transportation?
(X) I mostly walk with my pack or take cheap buses
( ) I mostly take cabs

8. Do you plan on having sex with the local women?
(X) Hell yes
( ) No

9. How do you plan to fill your time during the day?
(X) Mostly sight-seeing and shit like that
( ) Mostly doing my own work

10. Do you plan on taking occasional language courses?
( ) Yes
(X) No
( ) I plan on intensive courses

Post: #4

Jaif:

Your daily budget in Rio is $141. This assumes a $1,000 US a month rental and $1,000 US a month intensive courses. Learning portuguese in brazil is crazy expensive... I may be low balling it.

Lumiere:

Your daily budget in Brazil is $75. This assumes two long bus rides a week totaling $130 US and a weekly sightseeing cost of $56 US.

Post: #5

Damn, Brazil is expensive. Daily expense of $75-140 is basically the budget I had in London, and that was an expensive town for a backpacker.

When I was backpacking around Italy, I think my daily expenses with train travel (they have cheap train travel) and hostels, and drinking at hostels (where there were hot girls everywhere), was like $40/day!

Post: #6

$75 is pretty damn close

Post: #7

1. What country will you be visiting? (Pick only Brazil and Colombia for now)
Brazil

2. Will you be mostly moving or mostly staying in one place?
( ) Mostly moving
(x) Mostly staying

3. How will your accomodations be like?
(x) Mostly hostels
( ) Mostly roach hotels
( ) Mostly good hotels
( ) Mostly long-term rentals in decent area

4. Dinky towns or primetime cities?
( ) Mostly small or medium-sized towns
(x) Mostly large cities

5. How many times a week will you go out?
(x) 1-2
( ) More than 2

6. How's your diet like?
( ) Mostly junk food and snacks
( ) I cook healthy food for myself
(x) Mostly restaurants

7. Are you a risk taker when it comes to transportation?
(x) I mostly walk with my pack or take cheap buses
( ) I mostly take cabs

8. Do you plan on having sex with the local women?
(x) Yes
( ) No

9. How do you plan to fill your time during the day?
(x ) Mostly sight-seeing and shit like that
( ) Mostly doing my own work

10. Do you plan on taking occasional language courses?
( ) Yes
(x) No
( ) I plan on intensive courses

I'm curious how much I should have for a month.

Post: #8

Damn, I couldn't imagine spending $140 a day in Rio unless you are really ballin out. I maybe spent $80-$100 and I balled out. I did also have a free place to stay though.

Post: #9

For $1500 a month you should have fun in Brazil without including a place to stay.

Post: #10

Resurrecting an old thread. See I used the search engine. I am curious about budgets of places to live around the world.

Roosh can you do one for Poland?

1. What country will you be visiting?
Poland - Wroclaw mainly.

2. Will you be mostly moving or mostly staying in one place?
( ) Mostly moving
(x) Mostly staying

3. How will your accomodations be like?
( ) Mostly hostels
( ) Mostly roach hotels
( ) Mostly good hotels
(x) Mostly long-term rentals in decent area

4. Dinky towns or primetime cities?
( ) Mostly small or medium-sized towns
( ) Mostly large cities

5. How many times a week will you go out?
( ) 1-2
(x) More than 2

6. How's your diet like?
( ) Mostly junk food and snacks
( ) I cook healthy food for myself
(x) Mostly restaurants

7. Are you a risk taker when it comes to transportation?
( ) I mostly walk with my pack or take cheap buses
(x) I mostly take cabs

8. Do you plan on having sex with the local women?
(x) Yes
( ) No

9. How do you plan to fill your time during the day?
(x) Mostly sight-seeing and shit like that
( ) Mostly doing my own work

10. Do you plan on taking occasional language courses?
( ) Yes
(x) No
( ) I plan on intensive courses

Post: #11

I've calculated about $80 p/d in SPB Russia to study long-term at Liden and Denz...hope it's enough

Post: #12

(02-27-2010 04:03 AM)InternationPlayboy Wrote:  For $1500 a month you should have fun in Brazil without including a place to stay.

Very likely my budget in Curitiba. Though I will be working & going to school meaning I can't ball out every night not to mention will have favorable savings too.

Post: #13

The more I read these travel budgets I swear to god I get brain warped I am definitely doing it wrong.

Do you guys travel for long periods and that brings the cost down?

When I travel abroad I am going hard everyday $100 a day spend minimum without accommodation.

I think short term rentals/high end hotels really do break the bank

Post: #14

(07-23-2013 07:02 PM)WestCoast Wrote:  The more I read these travel budgets I swear to god I get brain warped I am definitely doing it wrong.

Do you guys travel for long periods and that brings the cost down?

When I travel abroad I am going hard everyday $100 a day spend minimum without accommodation.

I think short term rentals/high end hotels really do break the bank

Good points. I wonder a bit myself. I really want to learn more about just how much it costs to live some where. Like a database. If I just woke up one day and had a career ending meltdown, where can I go with my passive income? Where can I buy something to live in by using some savings. It might not be ideal to buy but it sort of locks in one of my costs and it is a known figure - except for government taxing etc.

A lot of the guys like to do the airbnb thing - I am used to being a flagged hotel when I travel. Except in the most remote of places. I guess airbnb ain't so bad but I would be a little concerned with valuables.

Post: #15

(07-23-2013 07:02 PM)WestCoast Wrote:  The more I read these travel budgets I swear to god I get brain warped I am definitely doing it wrong.

Do you guys travel for long periods and that brings the cost down?

When I travel abroad I am going hard everyday $100 a day spend minimum without accommodation.

I think short term rentals/high end hotels really do break the bank

Those flights/hotels in places like Sao Paulo, Goiania, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Natal, Balneariu Camboriu and Vitoria will be the death of me though..lol.

Post: #16

Shit 20nation is spending less in a month than I spent in my first 5 days in the SAME city of GDL. Lol fml. My first day in GDL I dropped $75 on cabs (excluding airport cab) because I hit 7 spots to find the right place for my "vibe".

You know I think the best data sheet would include

1. Where to stay (or where exactly is central location - a la roosh's bang Iceland)
2. Where the best place is to get cheap accommodation in the central location

The rest is a wash.

@yb if you can live off $1500 in São Paulo seriously you can fly out and visit me I'll cover the flight and your costs to party for a week all out, because that's absurd. São Paulo is more expensive than back to back DUIs

Post: #17

(07-23-2013 07:49 PM)WestCoast Wrote:  @yb if you can live off $1500 in São Paulo seriously you can fly out and visit me I'll cover the flight and your costs to party for a week all out, because that's absurd. São Paulo is more expensive than back to back DUIs

I just listed those cities above as my "away" games, lol. Sao Paulo, Vitoria, Porto Alegre, Goiania, etc etc. I'll most def be living in Curitiba though for my commitments there.

Back to back DUIs. I wonder what that would be like, lol.

Post: #18

TBH after visiting a good 25+ international cities I would say this.

Take top tier to top tier USA to South America, cut down by 25% max and that's your savings

To places like Japan = negative changes

To places like EE? No idea but according to numbers on here it sounds like a 40% cut down.

Anything beyond that and I'm seriously in shock and doing this



reading these posts.

It's like there is a secret store that sells food for a 90% discount.

Post: #19

(07-23-2013 08:21 PM)WestCoast Wrote:  It's like there is a secret store that sells food for a 90% discount.

Ha.

I agree.

I just bought an Elk Steak from the grocery store. $10 without tax.

Jar of Foie Gras? $20.

Tuna Steak $7

I don't know how guys are eating $2 meals.

Post: #20

(07-23-2013 07:47 PM)yb13 Wrote:  Those flights/hotels in places like Sao Paulo, Goiania, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Natal, Balneariu Camboriu and Vitoria will be the death of me though..lol.

If you plan on hitting any clubs the entrance fees to those will kill your bank probably more than anything.