Cost of Living
Mar 31st 2011, 5:31 pm
#16
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Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 3,479
Re: Cost of Living
Rural Hungary, did you know you can use skype to make landline calls? You just have to pay a bit of credit in advance and you get charged local rates. You can also set yourself up with a UK phone number, and you can choose from a variety of exchanges, so you can set one up in the town where most of your friends/relations live. I use this for business calls to/from the UK and it works very well.
One thing that's supposed to be much cheaper here is tailor made clothing and hand made shoes. I haven't bought any yet, but for my next business clothing purchase I'm definitely checking them out. Hungarian cobblers are much cheaper for repairs as well here, as are most repair places. Barbers seem to be a lot cheaper too. In fact any price that's based largely on labour cost or property cost seems to be less here.
Decent shoes and boots I find very expensive here though now that you mention it - last year at the St Stephens day craft fair in Budapest - there were a couple of stalls selling what must have been handmade shoes and boots, not a great range of styles, very well made though quite basic but they were cheaper than anything I had seen in our local shoe shops. Might see if I can find some websites.
Agree that barbers and hairdressers are far less expensive in the UK as is our children's fencing club, riding lessons and the like.
Mar 31st 2011, 5:33 pm
#17
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,590
Re: Cost of Living
Rural Hungary, did you know you can use skype to make landline calls? You just have to pay a bit of credit in advance and you get charged local rates. You can also set yourself up with a UK phone number, and you can choose from a variety of exchanges, so you can set one up in the town where most of your friends/relations live. I use this for business calls to/from the UK and it works very well.
One thing that's supposed to be much cheaper here is tailor made clothing and hand made shoes. I haven't bought any yet, but for my next business clothing purchase I'm definitely checking them out. Hungarian cobblers are much cheaper for repairs as well here, as are most repair places. Barbers seem to be a lot cheaper too. In fact any price that's based largely on labour cost or property cost seems to be less here.
One thing that's supposed to be much cheaper here is tailor made clothing and hand made shoes. I haven't bought any yet, but for my next business clothing purchase I'm definitely checking them out. Hungarian cobblers are much cheaper for repairs as well here, as are most repair places. Barbers seem to be a lot cheaper too. In fact any price that's based largely on labour cost or property cost seems to be less here.
Apr 1st 2011, 11:05 am
#18
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Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 51
Re: Cost of Living
Hi,
in Budapest you can find lot of tailors and get hand made shoes, both for women and men alike. There are also several shoe designers from whom you can order pretty extravagant one off shoes...
For the suits, of course the price depends quite lot on the fabric (top of the line italian fabric is never cheap) but the price/quality ration is extremely good.
in Budapest you can find lot of tailors and get hand made shoes, both for women and men alike. There are also several shoe designers from whom you can order pretty extravagant one off shoes...
For the suits, of course the price depends quite lot on the fabric (top of the line italian fabric is never cheap) but the price/quality ration is extremely good.
Apr 1st 2011, 11:35 am
#19
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Posts: 39
Re: Cost of Living
I've never tried handmade shoes because they're always so expensive (at least £2000 from Lobb of St James) and a friend who wears them says not to bother unless you have odd shaped feet. I'm still tempted though!
May 22nd 2013, 4:28 am
#20
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Cost of Living Question
I am exploring a job option and was wondering whether one can survive on the salary in Budapest...
Salary would be £300 after tax with my accommodation and utilities included...I'll likely have a couple of hundred extra spare a month...so £500 altogether...
Is this a livable salary?...I don't have lavish tastes...as long as I can cover my food, drink a little and be able to go out on weekends then I'm good...
Thanks...
Salary would be £300 after tax with my accommodation and utilities included...I'll likely have a couple of hundred extra spare a month...so £500 altogether...
Is this a livable salary?...I don't have lavish tastes...as long as I can cover my food, drink a little and be able to go out on weekends then I'm good...
Thanks...
