Originally Posted by k0nr4d

Let's assume $800 USD after tax so that's 3000 PLN roughly. In Wrocław (Warsaw is at least 25% more expensive), a 1 bedroom (so 2 room) apartment is 2000-3000PLN unless you want to live in a 100 year old pre-ww2 building that looks like it's from a horror movie. I pay $2000 just for my office space.

Also 4-5 usd for dinner? You might be able to get a greasy pork cutlet and potatos and some vegetables in some shit hole roadside bar in the middle of nowhere but definitely not healthy food. $4-5 buys you a kebab or a burger and fries at mcdonalds at best. At a normal restaurant if I go with my wife, I can expect to spend 150-200 PLN for two of us. I spend around 3000PLN on groceries alone for my family of 4.

You can live cheaper then I do, I spend about 12-13k on bare necessities for home like mortgage, food, utilities, tv, phones, and this doesn't include any business related stuff but I don't even see how people can get by for less then 5-6k PLN ($1500) here let alone $800.

As for jobs, I do agree on what was mentioned about living outside of cities. If you live in the provinces in a village, more then a few km from a major city then you are more or less fucked with very little chance for employment. These are the people that end up picking strawberries in western europe. There is little else to do in those villages besides drinking.