Best place to live in Eastern Europe
 

Hi there,

I am looking for a city in Eastern Europe to live for under US$800 a month. Is this possible at all?

Here is what I would like the city to have:
- clean water, stable power supply
- good internet connection
- welcome foreigners
- affordable groceries (above average quality)
- near to airport where I could take ryanair
- easy access to parks, markets, malls, libraries, affordable, restaurants

I am planning to stay there for 2 to 3 months, with possibility to extend it.

The next qusetion is, which country is the largest exporter in the Eastern European bloc (exporting to North America)?

Your suggestion will be appreciated.

I would imagine short term rentals cost more than that. Especially if you want internet already installed.

And what languages can you speak?

Not the Czech Republic.

Romania has the world’s second fastest Internet at about 15 megabytes per second (mbps), second behind only South Korea. To put that in perspective, that’s nearly 5 times the average connection an American has in their home :)

You can't go wrong with Budapest. Got everything on your list, plus the hottest chicks ever.

Wrocław, Poland.

Has airport with tons of ryanair flights, alot of apartment buildings have 100mbit+ internet, relatively cheap to live in, good food, fun nightlife, and pretty much everyone speaks english.

Amazing Hungary can be termed Eastern Europe bordering Austria
Same with the Czech Republic, what a farce.
You can find what you are looking for, you will just have to remember
to pack your nuts as you are headed to Ukraine. :1orglaugh

Alternatively this too is realistic. Just don't confuse central europe with eastern europe. :2 cents:

for 800 including renting the house or condo? not possible anywhere :2 cents:

Despite being literally the very center of europe, alot of people still consider this to be eastern europe

Very possible...students live on half of that. He's not going to have a big villa with pool but can definately live in small bachelor suite and eat instant noodles.

yeah I was just looking at it on the map. Austria is dead center.
Even in the very East of Europe,
the part bordering Russia,
$800 is not going to go far.
lucas131 is factoring in weed mind you :P
Try Belarus lol

oh well, if he like living like that, that is possible. living in same room with few more students and enjoy that food from fridge, maybe he can go even once per month to get few beers in bottle from some supermarket sale ... not sure if that is what he is looking for :winkwink:

Damn straight!

mbps are megabits per second, not megabytes

Read MB/s, that was a quote, but Romania having the world’s second fastest Internet is a fact :)

If Romania is a great place to live, why is every other country in the EU full of Romanians?

They're nearly as bad as Liverpudlians always claiming Liverpool is the greatest city in the world but not living there.

true this, people in spain knows well about it :winkwink:

Skopje Macedonia.... with 800 dollar per month you can live good, quality food especially vegetables airport is on 20 km from the city, no ryanair flights but wizzair flights to europe starting 10 euro one way ( Milan, Venice, Eidhoven, Dortmund,Basel,London,Meeningen) some other cheap flights to Istanbul, Brussell, Paris, Rome. Its forigner friendly place its 200 km away from Thessaloniki in Greece ( from the sea) very close to the mountains.

btw are you still sexy, and a girl? :) maybe you can live with me somewhere for free :)

Always worth a try

Zagreb Croatia... nice city, nice girls, not that from from the beach...

Belgrade, Serbia. City with great night life and beautiful girls:)
800$ won't bring you super good life but you will be able to easy pay flat (200eur) and pay other things including internet 100eur, and let's say eat for remaining of money:)

800 USD is 16,822.80 CZK. A bit small amount but doable,you'l need to find cheapest shared room(5000 czk is minimum)and you will still have 11000 czk left for whores,food,beer and whatever you need.
See expats.cz for more info.There are cheaper cities but doubt any of them have transportation quality like Prague.

yes thats it, nothing better than doing adult business in shared room :) otherwise you have to pay 10k/mo and more for 1+1 apartment in prague, and almost everywhere here, then you have 6k for whores :)

Consider Pripyat in Ukraine

:1orglaugh

15 Mbps? Sweden have 100 Mbps, in some cities they even offer 1000 Mbps.
I bet they do the same in both Norway, Finland and Denmark.

agree with lykos. if partying and women are on your list then Belgrade is worth a look. i was there last summer for a week...people are really nice too, even to ugly americans.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...tle=9__Belgium

http://mashable.com/2011/09/21/faste...s-infographic/

That is for the country as a whole by the way. You can get 100mb/s in many places and probably more.

It isn't Eastern Europe but I'd recommend Malta. You can get a nice 1 bedroom place with a Sea View for $800 per month. Everyone speaks great English, year round sunshine and Ryanair flys out of the main airport, cheap vacations or trips home to visit family.

I lived there for 1 year and it was great.

in CZ it would be doable but not enjoyable

Not everyone need to have 5 cars which they dont drive at all :1orglaugh

Second that... why?

The ones up here speaks crappy english :/ friendly and nice yep, english nope

who has 5 cars? not me, i dont even have one :winkwink:

i know people who earn like 12,000-13,000 czk and still make a living. but is it great fun? i dont think so

I agree, but each of us has different standards of "enjoyment".
When I was a teenager, I had a chance to meet a guy who was working at a gas station, filling tanks some 8 hours a day, often in cold/chilling nightshifts.

He was the happiest person in the world. He came from Vietnam (or some other not-so-lucky country, can't remember exactly), where he had spend his early adult life working in muddy fields 12 hours a day, for the yearly equivalent of what he made in ONE day in Europe.

He considered himself very lucky, and rightly so - he could now afford to buy all the food he could possibly want to eat, had a warm dry place and some spare time too.

Sorry for the slightly pathetic tone, but I often think of this guy whenever I listen to myself or others saying that life is hard.

Life is not hard for any of us - not even if you have 800$ in Prague.

wroclaw, poland :)

it all depends on the usd to pln rate though..... now it is very good :)

~2500 pln can get you 800 pln for nice room + 1700 pln for living
or

1300 pln for single room flat and 1300 for living....

which is doable , but as the "unexpected" costs appear, it can be tough task ;]

with less then $800 you can live in Albania!!

I know a dutch guy who earn only 10k czk in Prague and i am sure he having great fun.It's all depend what needs you have.For some people even making 10k$ wouldn't not be enough for them to be happy.

You can live in Afghanistan too, for less than $800/mo. What's your point? :1orglaugh

You liked it there? I was there for a total of 48hrs in and out for a meeting and I couldn't wait to leave:Oh crap

As for mass migration into western Europe - lack of jobs, unless of course they want to become a cam star. Most western companies avoid Romania due to the bureaucratic fraud and persistent bribes. As a Romanian friend put it, "In Romania there is always a solution, just depends on how much it costs."

Fast, fast, fast internet at great prices. We have 30M/bps upload guaranteed for under 200 euros/month including the 24% VAT.

Rent - 3 story house (not western standards), 5 bedrooms 2.5 baths for 500 euros/month.

As opposed to everywhere else, where there's always a solution, only the price varies? :)

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Go to Prague - plenty of ass there, too! :winkwink:

It took time to grow on me but yes I loved it. I wouldn't judge anywhere in 48 hours, it's nowhere near enough time to get to know things. What exactly didn't you like about it? The food is always fresh, people are friendly, tons of tourism and people from all over the world.

I lived in a 3 bedroom apartment with views of water, I had 2 balconies (one off my lounge and one off my bedroom) and was a 3 minute walk to our office and 5 minute walk to all the "Action".

What are the Visa requirements in Budapest for long term stay?

i cant afford to live in Eastern Europe... :(

Dont know about Budapest DWB but in RO I was told impossible to r=get resident permit in 5 days (which I needed). I went to the immigration office spotted a hot girl waited for the boos to leave and then got all the info I needed and produced it the next day. She moved my application to the top and all it cost me was 11 red roses delivered to her office so all her coworkers could see.

Just ask the price :winkwink::winkwink: