OT: Can You Live On?

[AgentZero]

I usually pull in about eur1300 a month which works out at about USD1600 and I still have to be very careful with my money or I'll run out before the end of the month.
That 1300.00 usually breaks down as:
350.00 rent (which is bloody cheap for Dublin)
180.00 food (also eating cheaply by Dublin standards)
150.00 credit card
85.00 pension fund (government one is rubish)
60.00 transportation (bus or train to work, owning a car in Dublin is prohibitively expensive.
80.00 on repayments on my PC
80.00 on the loan I had to take out to pay hospital bills.
60.00 medical insurance (I learned my lesson)
50.00 mobile phone bill (if I'm lucky)
90.00 electricity/phone/heating bills
30.00 for ISP (only one in the house with a PC so I foot the bill myself.

Which leavs me with about eur80.00 after everything is payed for which isn't too bad but it doesn't go very far over here. Ah well, once the loan, PC and credit card payments are done that'll free up another 300... Only 2 more years to go.

[Arakiel]

voted NO F***ING WAY! because...well...there no F***ING way. $1000 is only half my current mortgage payment, nevermind cars, food, etc...
Even renting isn't possible, the house down the end of my street is currently renting for more then my mortgage and my Last 2 bedroom apartment rented @ $800 so maybe in another part of the US but certainly not in Massachusetts.

[Baron Munchausen]

And yet that's fairly cheap for Europe from what I hear. What about living away from Dublin, in the western and more rural parts of Ireland? Would it be lots cheaper or does it not make much difference anymore?