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Moscow, Russia

typ. exp:

  ~600$ per each family member for food/clothes/utilities (no fancy stuff)
  700-1200$ renting 1 room apt.
  20$ internet (10MBit+ is common)

extras:

  60-100$ meal for 2 at *reasonably* priced restaurant
  15$ movie ticket
  10-20$ taxi ride
  1$ ramen noodles (called "Doshirak" here)
  2.5$ BigMac

avg. salary IT (after tax) $700-1500/mth (mostly around $1000/mth)

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Kostroma, Russia

I don't include clothes because these are more difficult to consider.

  $250-350 for 2 room rent
  $200+ for some "normal" food (meat and veggies included), if you prepare it yourself
  $25 internet (10 mbit)
  $6 movie ticket
  $3 taxi ride
  $0.2 for cheap ramen
  $1 for some better ramen
  $2.5 big mac

Average salary here for non-management position is around $600-800, I think.

I don't agree on salaries in Moscow. It's not a big deal to find a 70k RUR ($2.1k) position for an IT guy.

> avg. salary IT (after tax) $700-1500/mth (mostly around $1000/mth)

$1000 is for a stydent, twenty-something HTML/PHP programmer or Windows admin. Most companies offer >= $2000. For senior developers (Java, Python, RoR etc) or DBAs $3000 is average. *nix/Cisco admin may expect $2000-$2500.

St.Petersburg's salaries are about 60-70% of Moscow equivalents. Other > 0.5M population cities - about 30-50%. Small cities - 25-30%.

Wow, that sounds totally unlivable

perhaps why a bottle of vodka is 3 dollars

*also fun fact: doshirak is a Korean brand

Well, there is a reason Moscow has the dubious distinction of being the world's most expensive city. :-)

It is. No medical insurance of any kind included if you work for yourself. $200 for visiting a dantist.

About $100/month for running a simplest possible kind of local firm, maintaining accounting etc. It no staff and no taxes payed at all.

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