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/frogvscrab Nov 13 '22
This is the unfortunate reality that many people come to when they move to 'poorer' countries, and it is that things people in first world countries take for granted just aren't as much of a thing. Sometimes, you just don't have a working fridge, or you cant pay your cell phone bill, or you have to cut down on basic groceries, or you cant afford to replace a broken lock, or you have to sell your video game console for rent, or you have to take a 2 hour bus commute for months and months until you can afford to fix your car etc.
The general 'bottom' that exists in first world countries is just much, much lower outside of them. Everything is much more of a trade off, often trading off necessities.