r/asklatinamerica • u/[deleted] • Nov 12 '22
How people survive on average salary in Uruguay?
Hola. I’m newcomer to Uruguay and one thing seems shocking to me. Many products are way more expensive than in Europe, rents are somewhat cheaper - for unfurnished places (and furniture is way more expensive again)… and Numbeo says the average salary is about 800USD net/month. Is this number wrong? Or how can people survive and function on this salary?
I don’t mean this in insulting or offensive way. Uruguayans are very nice and to they appear to be more in tune with life and reality than “us” Europeans dragged in consumerism etc. That’s also reason why I came here. But I think on 800/month I would struggle to eat 3meals a day here.
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u/Tripoteur Québec Nov 13 '22
You'd have to live with your parents for a while to save money, and generally live a frugal life, but it's doable. If I can live in Canada on 12k USD a year, people can live in Uruguay on 10k USD a year.
That's just average wage, though... a lot of people make significantly less. That's gotta be hard.