Living on €400 a month?

Hi iamacyborg and welcome to Expat.com!

Francesca

Hi,
Impossible even in a cheap city like Berlin

You will nead at leat 800 Euros per month to survive.

Good luck

If your employer provides accommodation (or you bunk with friends for free) and you pay for the trip to/from Germany from other sources, it would be possible to survive on €400/month - i.e. it would pay for basic, cheap food and other daily expenses (but NOT for luxuries like clothes or an occasional beer).

Hi there, I don't want to sound pessimistic, but I really do think that with 400 euros it would be really difficult! Berlin is cheap, but not that cheap. I think that with a free accommodation it would be "possible" but still difficult. Good luck to you!

It would be tight, but not impossible. I know people who are on similar budgets, but you have to be lucky in finding cheap accommodation and you will have to room-share. You can probably share a room with someone in an area like Wedding or Neukolln  for around 150 per month inc bills. Then you got 250 left for travel/food, which is doable if you can walk/ride a bike to your work.

Over the last 12 months I've lived comfortably on around 600 per month and my rent (inc all bills) is 400 per month. I don't go hungry (spend about 15 per week on food), and hit the bars pretty much every Friday and Saturday.