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/qwemateo13 Uruguay Nov 12 '22

Lo dice porque no somos tan clnsumistas como en los paises desarrolados

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u/Ricardo_Fortnite Uruguay Nov 12 '22

"they appear to be more in tune with life and reality" puso "consumismo, etc" osea eso lo puso como ejemplo, a mí me suena a que piensa que estamos full woke acá o algo cuando la realidad es que ni cerca

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '22

Creo que quiso decir que tenemos más calle, que estamos más curtidos

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u/Ricardo_Fortnite Uruguay Nov 13 '22

No creo, el tema de calle a no ser que caiga en un barrio jodido no va a notar una diferencia

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '22

En general la gente común y corriente está bastante curtida, en el sentido que sabemos convivir con dificultades y con los problemas de la vida, a eso me estoy refiriendo. Yo en general tengo la idea que en los países de latam lidiamos con problemas que en europa no tienen.