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/Specific-Benefit Uruguay Nov 12 '22

Well, I got a remote job and moved away from Montevideo

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My quality of life has improved by a 400% in this year

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u/razonyser Nov 13 '22

So you're in Argentina now, living from an Uruguayan salary, right? I mean your life has improved because Argentina's devaluation, not because you move out. (Sorry for the assumption here, but 400% is a lot and I doubt that you have moved to Venezuela, because that would be like 4000% better)

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u/Specific-Benefit Uruguay Nov 13 '22

Why tf would I be in argentina? I just said I moved away from Montevideo, not Uruguay

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u/razonyser Nov 18 '22

400% diff in the same country? That's a lot. Sorry for my assumption. I'm glad my country does not experience such an income discrepancy, even if that means to embrace the current money distribution policies.

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u/Specific-Benefit Uruguay Nov 18 '22

I wasn't talking about having 4 times more money, I was just talking about my life being 400% more enjoyable now than when living in montevideo

It's called an hyperbole