Rent

I live in the capital of Romania and pay 230 euros (not including expenses) for a pretty decent place - its about 40 sqm and only 3 minutes away from the subway, fully equipped/furnished.

i actually pay 200 euros plus utilities around roughly 100-150. I live in downtown Tallinn, capital of Estonia. I have 37 sqm apartement I have a deal with a friend tho, The apartement like this one cost like 350-400 per month on the market. When i used to live more baller style on the tenth floor with a awesome view a few years back i used to pay lke 550 euros.

I pay 1200£ (1980$) + utilities.
I live in West London that's why it's so expensive.

I used to live in Malta in a quite balla flat ( like 120 m²) for 750 €

I live with my gf
Nice flat is the only luxury I need
London is too fucking expensive tho :/

I pay $185 including all bills 20sq.m room with balcony. flat shared with 2 guys.
% net income depends on how my month is going between 10% and 250%
Landlord complains that I use electricity too much so might go to $200/month soo expensive D: Just had new bathroom put in, tub isnt a time machine tho.Flats shared with 2 other ppl 100k city in Czech republic.

Most important besides price is location for me though - a few shops, sports hall, public transport 5min from where I live.

I pay around 500$/month, I live in a beach ( decent beach, but not awesome ) in the center of the town, 5 min walking from the beach, have a nice view from 11th floor, a pool, apartment with 2 bedroom and 2 bathroom

I pay 1700/month for a 1bedroom downtown toronto also less than 10% of monthly income

some cheap rents ITT

I've paid rent ranging 280 a month when I was a 25nl 50nl grinder up to 650 when I was a 100nl grinder then 1700 when i started moving up, 6k between 2 people, 2100, 4k, 6k in australia, and now 1600 for the nicest place i could find in the suburbs


Living in a nice place has always been my way of rewarding myself for working hard and doing well. I've always enjoyed bringing many women over to my places I've lived in and having a nicer place naturally helps you more. I've also gotten quite a bit of motivation but that is probably debatable as I probably would be fairly motivated living in a tree. I've never really thought of it in terms of percentage of income, after all we do play poker for a living and our income typically will fluctuate. I've always known if my rent was higher, I would have to work harder. If you are one to have friends over or have people over in general you might become friends with, its quite amazing how differently people look at you, think of you and communicate with you when you live in a really nice place.

What type of area do you live in now and do you often have friends and/or dates over to your place? If its in a downtown area where you can walk to most places I usually value that way more and would be willing to pay more. For the most expensive places I've lived in while in Vancouver and Sydney, the locations were perfect in terms of walking distance to everything. I also met some higher quality of people living in these compared to when I was living the busto life. I'm fairly sure I would have been able to enjoy my time living in a cheaper place just as much but the experience you get is pretty fucking fun and like I said, when you come home to a sick place, it only makes you want to work harder to maintain or elevate yourself.

On January 25 2014 11:26 Bullshit wrote: I pay 1700/month for a 1bedroom downtown toronto also less than 10% of monthly income

What do you do for a living?

1600/month+ for a 1br is pretty standard in most downtowns in a pretty good location

$1675+ roughly $250 utilities monthly.

have a small 1 bedroom, maybe 600 square feet, but nice amenities. have washer/dryer/all kitchen stuff in apartment, and complex has pools, gyms, nice shopping areas pretty close. probably cheap for California standards, but super expensive for anywhere other than cities.

I think there's a certain psychological benefit to surrounding yourself with nice things, so long as you arent risking your livelihood doing so. You should probably spend no more than 50% of your income on housing assuming you dont mind living a little risky (no recovery period from job loss, hospital, etc). It's sorta like wearing a suit to work the fryers at McD's. You would probably be the best damn french frier that week because you would conduct yourself in a more responsible manner based upon how you dressed. Im not saying everyone is like this. I know executives at Google probably wear flip flops and board shorts to work and make just as much money. The point is generally speaking when you surround yourself with nice things, nice things tend to happen. If you associate with mature responsible people, you become mature and responsible. It's just human nature to imitate your surroundings. Going out of your way to live in a shithole so you arent spending any more than 10% of your income on housing is likely to result in you just living like a dirtbag for the rest of your life, even when you do have money. It will warp your sense of how other people perceive you, and it will train you to act accordingly. The human psyche is very malleable.

Get yourself a nice apartment, decent car, decent clothes, eat decent food, and watch how much better your life improves.

Not really what you asked for.. but I'm a home-owner (87m² 2-bedroom apartment). The way it's decorated (furniture, kitchen and stuff), my totally uneducated guess it would come to around €800-1000 a month. It has its own parking spot below the complex in a garage. Area is suburban area of Amsterdam (outside center). I don't pay much because it hardly has mortgage on it.

Been lurking my own thread today. Responses were really really good guys. This will help me a lot. I keep trying to write out individual responses but its really hard commenting on each without being all over the place. I think I will keep blogging throughout the year though.

On January 25 2014 19:04 hiems wrote: Been lurking my own thread today. Responses were really really good guys. This will help me a lot. I keep trying to write out individual responses but its really hard commenting on each without being all over the place. I think I will keep blogging throughout the year though.

thats the fun part of writing blogs on here and it being your own


you are allowed to respond and be all over the place and repeat yourself a few times if you have to when you quote people and reply

Paying about 2600 usd a month for 120m2 appt in a good location.
Go switzerland ;-)

Live in a small apartment I'm renting, 55sqm. Rent is 900$ a month, electricity and internet comes in addition to that.

It's in Northern Norway, don't come here, it's too cold, way to cold, it's stupid, yesterday it was -21. I went for a walk, I saw no people, no animals, no cars.

Really good here in the summer though, but January, February is worst two months a year.

On January 25 2014 22:06 Joeingram1 wrote: Show nested quote + On January 25 2014 19:04 hiems wrote: Been lurking my own thread today. Responses were really really good guys. This will help me a lot. I keep trying to write out individual responses but its really hard commenting on each without being all over the place. I think I will keep blogging throughout the year though. thats the fun part of writing blogs on here and it being your own you are allowed to respond and be all over the place and repeat yourself a few times if you have to when you quote people and reply

haha I see. well I guess to update I'm looking at veer, panorama, and mandarin. not sure where I will end up. I took your suggestion about location a bit too literally and I have to stay a couple of nights at polo towers haha, I feel like a noob for that but it's free so whatever.

as far as entertaining people and if i am the rare poker player that enjoys meeting women, I am not sure where I am with that, we shall see. I have always wanted to be like this but in general I have to push myself to come out of my shell.

ahh we are taking vegas living here. I've looked at a few different units in each of those buildings when I was looking into moving to Vegas.

I liked Mandarin alot, bit more than panorama. With the possibility of room service 24/7 with the gym/pool that actually is used by guests there leaving the possibility open to meet new people all the time that are on vaca was appealing to me, and of course not having to walk over bridge or taxi home like pana. Veer I thought was pretty nice too but alot smaller and basic, a bunch cheaper than mandarin though. I love the pool/hot tub area on top of Veer

I'm assuming your main priority is grinding live while your out there and the times you would have friends over is small to non-existent and if you get a girl back to your place in Vegas, (local or vacationer) it won't matter much where you live. It does take a little force to get out of that shell for most people, have to grind through those awkward encounters

Everyone I met in Vegas said stay far away from the Veer. It is architecturally flawed and produces insane wind noise between the two buildings. There are even news articles about it in the Vegas area. It got so bad the Veer set up some kind of exchange with adjacent hotels to allow residents to spend the night there when the noise gets too bad. Fuck that shit.