At work today I used my spare time in between serving customers to make a tally of how long I’d be spending in each country and how much it would cost. I got to a year and then stopped and guess how much my estimate was, including flights? only $20,000.
That’s Australian, mind you. Which makes it about $18,500 USD$. Now that is without giving myself any lee-way for splurges or emergencies, but add on $5000 and $25,000 is still not all that much for a year’s living - especially living where ever i want, whenever i want, just traveling and exploring. Sounds like the life for me.
To put this into context, that’s only about $2100 each month which is a fair bit less than most people’s income. So, my question to anyone who reads this is; Do you think you could survive on $25,000 a year?
It totally depends on where you travel. In the third world you could do that easy.
Europe/Australia/North America? Probably not. You could, but it would be difficult.
Well, personally, on average i spend around 800euro a month when backpacking. Sticking to hostels, and supermarkets for food… including traport, mostly trains.
I think thats an overestimate. I did 18 months around the world and I spent that and that was with some serious loses at a casino lol. There are many cheap ways to travel and homestays and cooking keep your costs down. I think you could do 1 year on 20,000 even with western countries. In asia? South America? 20,000 would last 2 years..