- rent/mortgage 500 (comes to about the same)
- food 120
- mandatory health insurance 100
- internet 20M 75 (yep, that's splurging)
- cheap car 250 (owning a car is expensive here)
- energy bill 200
- various other insurances 100
- phone 50
- mortgage: 350 for an 85 m^2 apartment near The Hague, after tax returns (no maintenance included)
- health insurance: 80 for the minimum package
- internet: 30
- energy: 100
- car: 150 (bare minimum)
If your income is under a certain limit (which it should be if you're just ramen profitable) you can get an allowance to help with rent and health insurance through the tax-office.
Public transport is quite decent in most areas, I would not recommend owning a car (especially because there is a lot of traffic congestion in and around major cities).
20Mbit/s can be had for about 30 USD from cheap ISPs. 40 USD for 8Mbit/s from a proper ISP.
My phone bill is about 30 USD/month, that includes a data plan.
I pay a lot more for food (USD 400/month), I think it would take quite a bit of effort/restraint to get that down to USD 120/month.
i sublet an old, rusty, worndown (with views on a canal) 1 bedroom appartment in the best part of town (jordaan) for 900€/month. The bigger problem in amsterdam is to find something.
I'm looking for a 2-3 bedroom apartment in a decent location (not necessarily the centrum, but the closer the better) but I'm having a hard time finding a place without signing up with any of the agencies (I cannot afford to pay the agency fee)
I tried using Kamernet but I have found that being a foreigner + not speaking dutch really makes it difficult to get any replies