Is there a place in the world you could live like a king via sig campaigns?

[adaseb]

Another thing you need to take into account is your safety. What is the point of cheap food and housing if you live in an extremely dangerous country and if some gang finds out you make $6000 a month they can kidnap you.

There are many safe places in USA and Canada where you can live in a huge house, couple cars, lots of food, etc for $6000 a month. The mortgage would be maybe $2K a month. I am not talking about living in Vancouver or New York but some low population state where houses are reasonable. You will feel safe there and everything.

A 1750-2000 Sq house is more than enough space for 5 people. Privacy might be an issue however.

[henmark]

Don't take the signature campaigns as a main income. This is should be just a bonus for the time and effort spent on the forum but turning it into your main income, there are too many negative effects.
First, spamming the forum because of the fulfilling of the minimum requirements often are quite high and if you have nothing to add to the conversation, you just post low effort posts and turn yourself to a spammer.

That is right, people who try to make signature campaign their main source of income turns out to be spammers. They always drop low quality content in the forum. Most of them don’t even care about questions that are being asked on the thread, they just start dropping whatever they want so that they can be able to post as many comments as possible to be able to increase their earnings at the end of the month. But that can be a problem for them if the moderators should find out.

So, it’s really not good. But if you are someone that can make out time to just be on the forum and be answering questions for the whole day, then you can go ahead and do that as long as your answers are not spamming.

[stompix]

Looking at all these posts and especially at some number links, I wonder why the assumption is that a poorer country will be way cheaper than a medium emerging economy and that you need to go to the end of the world for it. Spent a bit of time picking the cities mentioned and I just throw an eastern Europe capital against it :

Budapest and Jakarta

Consumer Prices in Jakarta are 3.82% lower than in Budapest (without rent)
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Jakarta are 1.06% lower than in Budapest

Sofia and Dhaka

Consumer Prices in Dhaka are 16.56% lower than in Sofia (without rent)
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Dhaka are 26.18% lower than in Sofia

Bucharest and Manila

Consumer Prices in Manila are 2.90% lower than in Bucharest (without rent)
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Manila are 11.72% higher than in Bucharest

Zagreb and Lagos

Consumer Prices in Lagos are 23.16% lower than in Zagreb (without rent)
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Lagos are 45.65% higher than in Zagreb

So, not really that much difference in funds need trying to be some African Warlord of an Oligarch.

That being said, I'm really curious, leaving the whole earning from a signature thing aside, have any of the responses made you think of moving to another country assuming you would get a real long-term job there paying this amount? Let's say you get an offer for twice this, 2400$ a month, would you consider it even a bit?

[NeuroticFish]

Romania is a country where 1000$ / month (after taxes) is already a good pay.

With 1500$ a week you can easily^* afford to buy either a flat in the city, either a smaller house or a half of a duplex in the one of the "bedroom-villages" next to the bigger cities of the country and have a pretty good life. Not havanas, whiskey and hookers 24/7, still a good life. If I'd have such an income and no kids at school I would probably spend most of the year in holidays.


^* It may worth mentioning though that with that kind of income probably no bank will lend the money for buying, so it may not be that easy after all. But strictly from the income point of view it's easy-peasy.

[Maestro75]

Anyone in Nigeria who moderates their way of living  knows that $300 weekly is a very big amount of money. Am talking of a country whose minimum wage is N30,000 a month. That is about $52. Some of this workers who receive that also have those who depend on them financially. That is a country where over 70% of its population are poor and lives on $2 a day. Anyone getting $300, that is N172,500 in Nigeria will live life very well, except he wants to live it very high like sportsmen and women who like flashy cars and things. Imagine what that amount can achieve in a country where someone is happy getting N30,000 monthly which can not even buy a 50kg bag of rice and you offer him N172,500 weekly. That will be a dream offer. A bag of rice in most parts of Nigeria is between N32,000 to N39,000. With inflation eating deep into the economy of my country and cost of living rising makes the minimum wage amount to nothing. $1,500 weekly will be someone living like a Saudi Arabian Prince even with more than 5 people. It is a very big amount of money.

[nullama]

The first thing that we need to establish is that there is a lot of inequality in the world:

The huge majority of the world is very poor. The poorer half of the world, almost 4 billion people, live on less than $6.70 a day.

If a person is getting $300 a week from the signature campaign, that means they're getting about $42 a day. That's a reasonable amount of money to survive anywhere in the world, relatively speaking, as that person won't be below the poverty line in a high-income country such as Norway:



So, basically you would be able to survive pretty much anywhere in the world. But let's see where you get a better deal.



We can see that in Burundi the average income is $1.50 a day, and 80% of the people there live on less than $1.90. Your $42 a day means you would be earning 22 times more than the vast majority of people there.

Now, let's go even further. We can see the whole world, mapped in a way that shows the percentage of people of each country that live on less than $3.2 a day:



The largest percentages appear all around Africa, and South Sudan in particular which has the largest percentage at 93.27%. You can see the source from this table.

If you move to South Sudan, your $300/week campaign would put you well above the vast majority of locals. But then there's the question of what you can get with that money, as most hotels and other facilities are aimed to tourists, not locals, and priced accordingly.

South Sudan is very underdeveloped for locals, so probably you won't get the best bang for your buck there, and also the people around you would be living a terrible life, which would lower your own quality of life as well:

As of 2019, South Sudan ranks third-lowest in the latest UN World Happiness Report, third lowest on the Global Peace Index, and has the fourth-highest score on the American Fund for Peace's Fragile States Index.

The best answer is probably somewhere in the middle, where locals have a reasonable quality of life, and you going there would allow you to live in the upper side of society. But then there would probably be personal choices that you would have to value, like access to beaches, quality of food, language of locals, weather, and so on. Interesting question.

[paxmao]

In my view, the world has become more balanced than in the past and people move more. This means that there are no free meals. If you want to have decent health care, it will cost you quite a bit anywhere because it is no longer about the doctor's pay. If you want security, you either live in a safe country (with strong taxes and redistribution) or you have to pay your own - again, good's not cheap.

I am interested in learning about any country in which I can have security, at least basic freedom, decent healthcare and can pay all that on, let's say, 500 USD a month.

[Erumo]

Anyone in Nigeria who moderates their way of living  knows that $300 weekly is a very big amount of money. Am talking of a country whose minimum wage is N30,000 a month. That is about $52. Some of this workers who receive that also have those who depend on them financially. That is a country where over 70% of its population are poor and lives on $2 a day. Anyone getting $300, that is N172,500 in Nigeria will live life very well, except he wants to live it very high like sportsmen and women who like flashy cars and things. Imagine what that amount can achieve in a country where someone is happy getting N30,000 monthly which can not even buy a 50kg bag of rice and you offer him N172,500 weekly. That will be a dream offer. A bag of rice in most parts of Nigeria is between N32,000 to N39,000. With inflation eating deep into the economy of my country and cost of living rising makes the minimum wage amount to nothing. $1,500 weekly will be someone living like a Saudi Arabian Prince even with more than 5 people. It is a very big amount of money.

I think The Pharmacist is neither is such a rice lover, nor wants to connect his life with rice The Pharmacist - the king of rice.

You can rely measure comfort life with bag of rice. How long can he survive this rice tortures? Maybe two months? Once I tried to experience bodybuilders eating routine. I ate only rice and boiled chicken breasts. In the middle of third week I had nausea when I saw rice.

What will he do in Nigeria? Except feeling himself like a tourist during first weeks? What can he achieve there?

I think it is more a joke than a serious question. It is impossible to live like a king with signature campaign earnings. Because people have growing appetites and get used to things. While signature campaign reward is constant.

[Oasisman]

I cannot be sure as the level of comfort varies from one personal standard to another.

So it sounds like that $1500/week would buy a pretty nice lifestyle in the Philippines.  Thanks for that input, I appreciate it.  It's also kind of what I assumed, because I've had the feeling that the cost of living in your country is pretty low if you compare it to the US (how much is gasoline over there, anyway?).  My next question would be: how does one go about getting citizenship in the Philippines?  Can somebody just fly there and take up residence, or would they be deported?

$1500/week is definitely going to give you a good lifestyle here in Ph (even with 5 people in a household) just like how some of my country men explains to you.
Now, If we're talking about applying for citizenship, afaik you need to stay here for several years, marry a filipina, or have a filipino business partner.
However, you can still own an airspace like condos here without any citizenship requirements, thus live a comfortable life and you're considered to be in a rich in PH's social stratification structure.
An individual who earns at least $1,000/month is considered wealthy. So,  $1500 for 5 person, that's 1,200/month individually and that is more than enough.

[Maestro75]

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I think The Pharmacist is neither is such a rice lover, nor wants to connect his life with rice The Pharmacist - the king of rice.

  you are either a comedian or you just want to misrepresent my post intentionally so to drag The Pharmacist into your post. You know your reason for doing that. I used the rice example to measure the monthly minimum wage in my country and what it can afford in basic food stuff so that those not in my country will understand better what $300 weekly is capable of. There was nothing much attached to it. If someone's monthly salary can not even pay for a bag of 50kg it shows you how little that salary is to the person. Now you go back to your comic theatre.

[Hydrogen]

Bucharest and Manila

Consumer Prices in Manila are 2.90% lower than in Bucharest (without rent)
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Manila are 11.72% higher than in Bucharest

I think those quoted numbers reflect significantly marked up prices in tourist areas. Which are higher than national averages.

"Slum" and non tourist regions have significantly lower prices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHN7S5oTWEs

Those areas are supposed to carry a negative connotation. But in some instances when those areas are recorded, there are children playing everywhere. People seem relatively happy and friendly. A stark contrast to many neighborhoods in more developed nations were gangs and organized crime have effectively taken over.

[bussybuddy]

...My question is whether there's any place on earth where $1500/week could allow five roommates to live very comfortably--perhaps not as boss-like as I described above, but maybe at least the big house and property...

I think developing countries would make sense because this amount of spending for me is huge for 5 people, in some countries in Southeast Asia it's entirely possible. But I don't think the Philippines can't afford that, because I see a similar country in the region like Vietnam if you earn $1500/w then you are a rich person and fully afford comfortable expenses. roof. And IMO, Vietnam is great for many criteria, the cost of living is cheap, the quality of life is decent, and it's very easy to immigrate.

[Semar Mesem]

...My question is whether there's any place on earth where $1500/week could allow five roommates to live very comfortably--perhaps not as boss-like as I described above, but maybe at least the big house and property...

I think developing countries would make sense because this amount of spending for me is huge for 5 people, in some countries in Southeast Asia it's entirely possible. But I don't think the Philippines can't afford that, because I see a similar country in the region like Vietnam if you earn $1500/w then you are a rich person and fully afford comfortable expenses. roof. And IMO, Vietnam is great for many criteria, the cost of living is cheap, the quality of life is decent, and it's very easy to immigrate.

I've been to Vietnam about 2 months and the results are very pleasant, I live in a countryside that is not affordable with the internet, at that time I rented a house with an area of around 200m2 at a cost of around $ 200 per month, and for eating needs with 2 of my friends only about $ 5 per day for one People, Vietnam is very pleasant and makes me always want to live in there.

[tbterryboy]

$1500/week is definitely going to give you a good lifestyle here in Ph (even with 5 people in a household) just like how some of my country men explains to you.
Now, If we're talking about applying for citizenship, afaik you need to stay here for several years, marry a filipina, or have a filipino business partner.
However, you can still own an airspace like condos here without any citizenship requirements, thus live a comfortable life and you're considered to be in a rich in PH's social stratification structure.
An individual who earns at least $1,000/month is considered wealthy. So,  $1500 for 5 person, that's 1,200/month individually and that is more than enough.

$1.5k a month is HUGE where I live. I mean you would basically live like kings for sure here if you were earning that much. I am earning a bit less than that, and even I am doing alright for myself.

Haven't been making that much so far, and so far it has been 1/3 of that and I have been living pretty nicely. Recently some health issues came up in the family, and I had some, and debts were always there, combined all of that resulted with me needing more money and now I am working a lot more, it's fine because I love my job but I can see how it could be hard for others.

Now I will make this kind of money for the first time ever and the money that I dread about how I am going to pay my debt, would be paid in a single month and I would still have more money left than what I usually earn, so it is really a lot here where I live as well.

[BlackHatCoiner]

My question is whether there's any place on earth where $1500/week could allow five roommates to live very comfortably--perhaps not as boss-like as I described above, but maybe at least the big house and property.

I live in Greece, where the basic salary is about 600 EUR per month. One individual alone can live off; they aren't much, but one without a family can easily scratch out a living with 150 EUR per week.

Now, for a family of 5, it's required to have at least two incomes (of that salary) to make ends meet. Whether that's two basic salaries or one basic salary and a pension etc., otherwise, we're talking about poverty. So in my place, $1500/week (~€1362/week) is an income where you can get by, but definitely not to praise it. It's as normal as it could.

[Hamphser]

My question is whether there's any place on earth where $1500/week could allow five roommates to live very comfortably--perhaps not as boss-like as I described above, but maybe at least the big house and property.

I live in Greece, where the basic salary is about 600 EUR per month. One individual alone can live off; they aren't much, but one without a family can easily scratch out a living with 150 EUR per week.

Now, for a family of 5, it's required to have at least two incomes (of that salary) to make ends meet. Whether that's two basic salaries or one basic salary and a pension etc., otherwise, we're talking about poverty. So in my place, $1500/week (~€1362/week) is an income where you can get by, but definitely not to praise it. It's as normal as it could.

There are places on this globe which does have higher standard of living on which USD value would neither be on high or low depending on exchange rates and this 1500/week would really be just enough for you

to buy all the things you do like not on the sense with those mansions or cars but you could actually get one if you do really tend to save it up even on just having 5 person per household then that amount would
suffice and still have some extras left but well on each country does have different level or standard of living which situations could really vary and differ.

[chrisculanag]

Here in the Philippines , the $1500 per week is big enough. You can rent a house then invest for buying some houses in the future. You can easily get what you want about this and you live like as a king. But always remember you need to find some place that you can safe.

[Bttzed03]

I don't know what happened to @nutildah or why he hasn't been online for months but, if you can still talk to him, you can ask for his feedback from living here in the Philippines. I know he spent time in the Southern part of the country which should generally have a lower cost of living than us in the North.

[molsewid]

Here in the Philippines , the $1500 per week is big enough. You can rent a house then invest for buying some houses in the future. You can easily get what you want about this and you live like as a king. But always remember you need to find some place that you can safe.

It is actually big enough for me, like we knew how hard it is to live in a third world country where earning like this kind of weekly income would be needed a multiple kind of job or consider a side hustle to achieve this amount. This is definitely every Filipinos dream to earn such kind of amount because you can really enjoy your life in this kind of earnings and I do wish I could earn this kind of big amounts too. Well, that's not impossible if we are all going to make every single productive.

[Cling18]

Speaking from the Philippines here. $1,500 per week makes $6,000 per month. In Philippine peso, that would be ₱313,491.01. That's more than enough for a group of 5 to live comfortably. Very comfortably, I cannot be sure as the level of comfort varies from one personal standard to another. However, that's a huge amount already. Our president only receives a salary of ₱411,382 - ₱423,723 per month.^[1] That's only $8,000 give or take.

[1] https://www.imoney.ph/articles/how-much-do-philippine-politicians-earn/

That could actually put up a good business and the whole family could live comfortably. That amount could supply and sustain not just the needs of the family but also their wants. The cost of living in the Philippines isn't too cheap but not as expensive as in other Asian countries. If a family could earn that much, they could travel and enjoy life while doing a bounty or signature campaign.