The same as mine. Before $300 just for the groceries are more than enough but these days, it's not enough for a month and that's why we're budgeting tightly and already avoiding buying those unnecessary things and goods. We have cut our budget and avoiding to eat now in fancy restaurants and it's a way to avoid the contraction of covid although rates now have become low still, it's there. Having one source of income these days won't be enough, it's better to have a full time job and have another job or a side hustle.
the standard of living in each region is different, and also different for each person, according to the needs of each. Indeed, I myself feel that if we only work as employees, we can only live, while we still have needs outside the budget, I agree, we must have income from more than one source, so that we can meet the needs of life, even though we have to be extra hard in the budgeting, because no matter how much income you get, but if we can't manage it, it will always feel like it's lacking
But having more sources of income is applicable to all of us whether we live in the same region or not. That's always the tip that these rich people are telling us, that's the suggestion they're bearing to our minds that no matter what you do in your work, time is going to come that it won't be enough so you do some hustle to have an additional source of income which will be the budget for anything that you want to do while your day job will pay the bills.