The cost of making Dustforce

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Still, $11.5K a year for one person is much more "feasible" in some areas than it is in others. I've lived places where $400 a month nets me a nice one bedroom apartment. By contrast, in some cities you'd struggle to find an apartment that you could split up equally with others for $400 per person.

A merely okay studio apartment runs around $600 alone where I am. Considering that's just under what I can make a month (which varies month to month), there's no way I could stay here even if I wanted to.

Where I'm planning to go to college, a nice 3 bedroom, 2 bath will run you the same price, which I can then split with room-mates for a very tolerable 200-250 a month.

[fastbilly1]

I've lived places where $400 a month nets me a nice one bedroom apartment. By contrast, in some cities you'd struggle to find an apartment that you could split up equally with others for $400 per person. NYC (in parts and as a whole, I believe) has the highest cost of living in the US: http://www.coli.org/ReleaseHighlights.asp

That is surprising. I live inbetween two small towns somewhat in the boonies, and the cheapest apartment near us is $600 a month for a 1 bed 1 bath while my mortgage is $800 with 3 beds and 2.5 baths. Atlanta was much worse (unless you were ok living in an area like Chamblee, Clarkston, or College Park, and then you dont go outside at night alone).

The team making Legend of Dungeon currently live in a tree and operate off a cell signal and solar panels. It is actually pretty neat:
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/04/09/legen ... in-a-tree/

[J T]

Here's another interesting article about how little money you have left after expenditures with a kickstarter project:
http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/26 ... s-money-go

And as a point of comparison, here are the estimated salaries for varoius jobs in the US.
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

EDIT: fixed links

[fastbilly1]

Here's another interesting article about how little money you have left after expenditures with a kickstarter project:
http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/26 ... s-money-go

And as a point of comparison, here are the estimated salaries for varoius jobs in the US.
http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/26 ... s-money-go

You put up the same url twice JT.

[Ivo]

I'm sorry, I still don't see it! The minimum wage in Portugal is well below 1k EUR (currently the exchange rate is 1 Eur = 1.3 USD).

A note, the cost of living isn't proportional to exchange rates between different currencies. Your eurosalary is worth more than the dollarsalary equivalent.

Norris, why do you think so? I have the opposite impression.

I can't say much about housing costs as I don't know, but I think with all the "free space" in the "New World" compared to Europe I reckon the average will be cheaper housing in the U.S. (and from some values discussed in the thread that seems to be the case).

What I can say is that there is a lot of stuff that I KNOW is cheaper in the U.S. - fast food (check the Big Mac prices as a good example), food in the supermarket is probably about even if we go like-for-like but there is also stuff like ramen, which as I keep saying, I personally never saw anything that could pass off for a ready meal (just adding boiling water) in Europe for 1/4 of an Eur or less. I can find "just add water" meals or soups, but they are more expensive (possibly they are also a bit healthier!).

That also tends to go for stuff on amazon.com in general (with the lower VATs or equivalents)... There is the common joke that if something (consoles or videogames are often examples) costs X in USD, it will cost X in EUR over here.

[MrPopo]

The cost of housing in the States has a wide range because although our total population density would suggest there's a ton of room, when you look at where people live you see that there are lots of urban areas (large city + surrounding suburbs) that the majority of the population lives in and then you have the rural areas. The rural areas indeed have dirt cheap housing, but you have the tradeoff of not being near things like concert venues or have access to reliable high-speed internet.

[fastbilly1]

but you have the tradeoff of not being near things like concert venues or have access to reliable high-speed internet.

Or cellphone signals. My inlaws live in an area far enough out that my verizon signal only reached occasionally. They have highspeed via satellite, with a 200meg a day cap for 512k down 10k up, for about $100 a month.

[Jmustang1968]

I think I lived off around 10k a year in college about 10 years ago. Rent was $400 a month and it covered all utilities except water. I didnt have a car payment and my grandfather covered my insurance while my parents covered my cell phone.

A cell phone plan alone can easily cost about 1k a year. I think my insurance was around 700ish a year.

But for someone who would have a car payment, insurance, cell phone, rentm utilities all alone would be tough.

In Houston area it would be even tougher. A place that cheap here has you in a not nice part of town and the cost of living here is still relatively cheap to the rest of the nation, especially as far as cities go.

I can't imagine trying to live off 1.6k a month. My mortgage alone near takes up that amount.

[Ack]

Living where I do, hmm...

Power, roughly $50 = $600
Car payment, roughly $300 = $3600
Car insurance, roughly $100 = $1200
Cell phone, roughly $100 = $1200
Other Utilities, roughly $100 = $1200
Student loans, roughly $250 = $3000
Cable, roughly $60 = $720
Rent, roughly $875 = $10,500

So my yearly bills = $22,020, not including any kind of grocery costs, auto fuel or repairs, medical appointments and items, clothing or necessary supplies, etc. My health insurance is covered by my employer, otherwise I would have to deal with that too.

[J T]

Here's another interesting article about how little money you have left after expenditures with a kickstarter project:
http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/26 ... s-money-go

And as a point of comparison, here are the estimated salaries for varoius jobs in the US.
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

You put up the same url twice JT.

Fixed it.