Whats your cost of living? Options

[jdg371]

I live at home with my parents, living pretty good since I don't pay for car insurance, food, cell, and other stuff. Yes you can say im partially spoiled. Im trying to figure out the cost of living away from home for the first time.

Total Cost Monthly:
-Specify how much and what you pay for? rent/utilities/other bills.
-Location
-Solo or Roomate
-[Optional] Monthly income

Add anything else that you pay for. I "want" to plan how much it would cost to live away from home, most likely I will step up to this in a year or so.



THANKS!

[xs94st]

hmm..

i went to college for a year at Cal Poly Pomona for Mechanical Engineering. that totaled a nice $14000 that was paid through scholarships, grants, and student loans that i am sorta payin off..

i finished one year at CPP. wasn't the school for me. moved home for 8 months. moved out. started livin with gf payin half the rent. (was $785 for a 4 bedroom 4 bath apartment, split the $785 with my gf) n food.

i am still living with my gf, now paying $400 rent plus $150 of utilities (water is a large portion, we have lots of greenery) my job barely covers what i pay for rent and as far as school i enroll whenever i can afford it. its all outta my pocket so i dont get to do much..

so. my cost of living is:

$170~ per month college loan
$130 car insurance
$400 rent
$150~ utilities
$160-180~ per month gas
$125~ credit card payment
$100~ going out
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$1245 per month. wow. im 20 years old n thats how much i pay outta my own pocket working at a dead end job n going to community college. no wonder im sh!ta55 poor.