What is your salary in Pakistan?
Started my career in Feb 2011, my base salary was 40k PKR/$400 which was above my expectation honestly speaking. By 2012 I was earning 65k and in 2013 85k.Resigned in April 2013( it is a long story ) and started freelancing + entrepreneurship( failed ) but then my average monthly income from freelancing work was $3000 even $5000 for some month.Right now, working about 50–80 hours a month on freelancing projects, and earning around $3000 rest of time is spent with side project, contributing on open source projects, family, and quora. AlhumudAllah life is good!UPDATE#1OMG wow, thanks you Quora and beautiful people out there for upvoting and commenting. Never expected this :)For people are asking about my work.I’m software engineer, developing web based application using Ruby on Rails stack. Some of app i’ve [developed/with other team members of course] so far:More Contributions From Pakistan - PUCIT Lahore [ OrangeHRM contributed meeting module with a team from PUCIT, developed in symfony
Can I live comfortably in Brazil with roughly $1000 per month?
I'm going to answer as someone who has lived 22 years in Montenegro, a small city in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul (RS).The population is of 60k people, and we are located 70 km far from Porto Alegre, the capital. This makes us an inexpensive city because we're not as big as Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, etc; and we're not a city far from the urban centers.Considering that US$1000 is worth R$4000 right now, you can live very well.You can rent a house with 2 rooms for about R$450 near the downtown, so you don't need a car/bus ticket to work (if you're lucky to find a nice place to work in the downtown) or go out.Renting a house far from the downtown makes this value go down a little bit, at the cost of 30 minutes of commute every day (a bus ticket is R$3,50, and the gas, if you want a car, is R$3,80/liter).However, there's a warning: don't rent a house near the Caí river! It floods every year, and a lot of families lose all they have:If you are like me, and likes eating at home, sometimes going to restaurants, you're likely to spend R$600. This includes mid-range restaurants for lunching, and some cool pizzas.A house with a high usage of electricity is likely to make the bill cost R$200 nowadays (if you like to have the TV always turned on like me, and perhaps an air conditioner). The water bill is around R$40 (for those who bath all days!). Decent internet connections start at R$80.We don't have popular chain stores here, so you will not easily find cool clothes to wear. A new look will cost about R$200, including shoes, for those who don't care about it.Unfortunately, we don't have many places to go out or party here. However, you can always hit the road to cities close, like Porto Alegre, Novo Hamburgo or São Leopoldo (Porto Alegre being the farther city, 1 hour/car).You can, however, have a nice night with lots of beer with your friends for R$60.Summing up:House rent: R$450Food: R$600Commuting: R$300Electricity: R$200Water: R$40Internet: R$80Clothing: R$200Occasional parties: ~R$150Total: R$2020As you see, you can start investing in something cool (your own house, for example) right away with the rest of the money!Aerial view of the downtown
I am 16 now, have over $1,000 in savings. I'm thinking about traveling around the world at age 18. How should I get started?
1. Don’t buy drugs2. Don’t chase prostitues3. Don’t get drunk and stupid and look for sex.4. WOMEN- don’t get drunk and take off with strangers5. Look at the environment around you, the people, the colors, the architecture. Enjoy it. We like to look at each place as a place to possibly return to for an extended stay in the future.6. TRAVEL LIGHT. Pack your bag then toss our 1/2 of the stuff in it. You will buy a couple T-shirts as souvenirs anyway so why carry old ones. (I travel with less than 20 pounds in my backpack for 90 days). Just remember if you bring it you gotta carry it!7. Speak with locals. Ask about local places of interest that will never be in a travel book. Ask about the best food or beer.8. Eat everything. Well just about, I skipped the big water beetles and only had to smell stinky tofu to decide not to try it.9. Spend time. I meet young people racking up countries but seeing little, learning nothing, experiencing nothing magical.10. Big cities are exciting for bars and museums but small villages are far cheaper, safer and one learns how locals have been living for a long time. Ask locals about nearby places to see, we have seen nearly unknown temples and waterfalls and hidden gems no travel guide had ever written about.11. Don’t be afraid to ask policemen or soldiers on the streets about great places to eat. In Mexico a soldier told us where to get plates of free food samples with the purchase of a beer.12. Be kind, be patient, be happy, you are a guest in their home.
Are cars really that cheap in Dubai?
Hey brother. 6000 salary is barely enough to live here.20,000$ for those cars is not cheap compared to the prices in the U.S, you can get a brand new one for that price.Also, maintenance and parts over here are expensive. It's a hot country so tyres need to be changed every year or two and ACs and overheating are common issues. Consumables such as breaks need to be changed frequently. Maintenance will be around 200 per month (at least).You need a budget for parking. 6000 salary means you'll be in a sharing flat which means you won't get a annual parking permit which means you'll pay around 10–15 dirhams daily for parking. That's 400 per month.A budget for fines (1 radar you'll loose 10% of your salary). I pay every year about 5000$ in fines. It's normal to pay at least 1000$ in fines yearly for everyone, regardless of how careful you are. That's around 300 per month.A budget for at least once a week car cleaning (sandy). If you do it in the station it's 30 dirhams, 4 times a month is 120 per month. (Cleaning your car in the public parking is illegal)Also, you'll never become a citizen so your stay in UAE is temporary. You never know how temporary, could be 3 months before whoever hired you, fires you. You'll have to eventually sell it before importing it into another country is going to be extremely expensive. You'll loose a lot of money on depreciation because those cars specially in the UAE will loose more than half their value by the time you sell. Which is going to cost you 10,000$ in a 1 or 2 year period.This is all considering that the car you buy isn't a melon or has heavy hidden issue. These kind of cars in UAE are absolutely used to their limits in the UAE, we have long empty roads some people speed to 250–300 on and empty areas with roundabouts that people drift. If the car has issues, you will truelly suffer with repair costs, they are not cheap here.Sorry to disappoint you or scare you but you can seriously ruin your life buying a car for that much with that small of an income. You really want to own a car, rent one on a monthly basis. You can get a car for 60 dirhams per day if you rent monthly (that's 1800 monthly), and pay nothing else, and be safe that way.However, I suggest you rent a car only when you need it because 6000 salary sounds like you will be stuck at work most of your week, and maybe only go out on the weekend.