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Re: Where could someone comfortably live on $30 a day?
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repentance
on 28/11/2012, 03:01:00 UTC
Define "live on".  Are we assuming living somewhere permanently or living there temporarily (like the whole back-packing through Asia thing)?  Are we talking about people who are debt-free?  Talking about staying in hotels/hostels or renting a home?  Running a car or using other means of transport?  Including the cost of getting there or not?  What - specifically - do you intend that $30 per day covering?

You have nothing but what you are wearing and a voucher for a one way trip to anywhere on the planet.

You magically gain the equivalent of $30 USD worth of purchasing power once per day, wherever you end up.

Where do you go?

SE Asia (including Indonesia).  Some of the Pacific Islands also have a low cost of living if you're living like a local but are expensive if you're living there as a tourist.  You could live extremely well in Tonga for $30 per day if you leased a property rather than back-packing.

I'm not familiar with South America myself, but I believe there are parts of South America where you can live very well for very little (by Western standards) as well.