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    Default In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    Thinking about leaving the country to make my US dollar go farther.

    Can I live really well and stay safe elsewhere with the US dollar?

    Can 20K set me up nicely elsewhere?

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    It's a step up

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    In my country your 20.000 would be like:

    100.000-150.000 while buying house
    16.000-17.000 while buying imported products (phone, notebook etc.)
    35.000-40.000 for food
    100-000-150.000 for services (cleaning house, barber etc.)

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    Quote Originally Posted by LeCola
    In my country your 20.000 would be like:

    100.000-150.000 while buying house
    16.000-17.000 while buying imported products (phone, notebook etc.)
    35.000-40.000 for food
    100-000-150.000 for services (cleaning house, barber etc.)
    I don't understand.

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    Quote Originally Posted by LeCola
    In my country your 20.000 would be like:

    100.000-150.000 while buying house
    16.000-17.000 while buying imported products (phone, notebook etc.)
    35.000-40.000 for food
    100-000-150.000 for services (cleaning house, barber etc.)
    A barber costs as much as a house? 150.000 at the high end? Damn you must have some talented barbers there. Can they do a good bowl cut?

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    You'll be back once the welfare check stops coming in.

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    youll have to actually work and do hard labor to survive any place a dollar is that inflated.

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    Quote Originally Posted by stalkerforlife
    Thinking about leaving the country to make my US dollar go farther.

    Can I live really well and stay safe elsewhere with the US dollar?

    Can 20K set me up nicely elsewhere?
    All the countries that have generous welfare benefits would require you to actually have a skill to go to that country...to ensure you don't need welfare benefits.

    The countries that are cheap don't have the same quality of life you would experience in the US and you wouldn't get any welfare benefits anyway.

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    Most of South America is very affordable. However you better hope you don

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    Quote Originally Posted by tpols
    youll have to actually work and do hard labor to survive any place a dollar is that inflated.
    This. OP isn't making it outside of a 1st world country that will support him and his family.

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    The Dominican Republic

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    Just downsize yourself like Matt Damon

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    Quote Originally Posted by stalkerforlife
    I don't understand.

    Quote Originally Posted by egokiller
    A barber costs as much as a house? 150.000 at the high end? Damn you must have some talented barbers there. Can they do a good bowl cut?
    I mean you would buy a small apartment in my country with 20.000 dollars, it would probably close to what you buy with 100.000-150.000 in USA.

    If you buy 20 'X' brand, 'Y' model notebook in USA with 20.000 dollars, you could buy only 16-17 of same notebook in my country. Because they are imported to our country, we did not produce it.

    If you have 2.000 meals with 20.000 in USA, you would probably have 3.5000-4.000 similar meals with same money. Because food in USA is cheap.

    You probably pay 25-30 dollars for a haircut in USA. You would pay 5-6 dollars in my country. So, you 20.000 dollars would be like 100-000-150.000 dollars in my country.

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    Probably no better options for you than the US since you have a family

    If you were single it'd be different

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    Default Re: In what country can I live well on the American dollar? Can I buy a house with 20K?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cleverness
    Probably no better options for you than the US since you have a family

    If you were single it'd be different

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