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Cost of living in Medellin Medellin

Since I am asked again and again, with how much money you here, "happy", plus a small contribution:

The minimum salary of an employee in Medellin is 300 $ and is standard for ordinary workers. A good lawyer will get about $ 1200 starting salary and an experienced doctor earns $ 1000-2000 in the hospital. A well-run operation raises from a much higher return / a much higher profit than in the economies. Therefore, there are many rich people here.

Here's a small price list:

taxis, ~ 50cent/km
cheaper beer in bar: 60 Cent
beer in expensive restaurant: 2 €
Latte Cafe in cheap, 45 cents
Milk coffee in expensive restaurant: 1.5 €
fillet steak in posh restaurant: 11 €
fillet steak in a favorable Restaurant: 5 €
lunch (beverage, soup, main course) 3-5 €
Club Tickets 2-15 € for larger events
apartment , 5 € to infinity. Penthouses are very cheap, simple apartment in a prime area rel. expensive.
technical items: about as much as in Germany, one seidenn käuft in the upper price range. For example there is no market for 24 "monitors, so a 24" monitor to either not get or very expensive.
cinema ticket: between 3 and € 6.50 (for 3d Performances)
Pizza Delivery: 4.50 € at lower quality than in DE
Kellogs cereal 3-5 € the package
glass Nutella: 5 €
cheap bottle of wine: 13 €


In many ways, one has a little switch. Import products are quite expensive. My current strategy is to buy the most expensive local product, as it usually. still a lot cheaper than the cheap imports. In toothpaste, shampoo, razor blades etc. I of course still buy the same products, but must pay about 50% more.

water and electricity are the "Estrato" dependent. Each area of the city is depending on financial situation of the residents eine Nummer von 1-6 zugeteilt. Bewohner von Estrato Nummer 1 Gegenden zahlen am wenigsten, Bewohner Nummer 6 am meisten. Tendenziell sind Estrato 6 Gegenden die sichereren, schöneren und teureren Gegenden. Heizen/klimatisieren ist nicht nötig, und so sind die Apartments auch nicht ausgestattet.

Steuern müssen Angestellte nicht bezahlen. Der Staat finanziert sich hauptsächlich durch Mehrwertsteuer und Importzölle.

Man kann in Kolumbien sicherlich wesentlich(!) besser mit einem Gehalt zwischen 200 und 800€ leben. Will man jedoch mehr ausgeben bzw. ist man einen höheren Lebensstandard gewöhnt, ändert sich dieses Verhältnis sehr schnell. Man muss sich das so vorstellen: Die breite Masse käuft ply toilet paper, single ply is therefore very cheap. If, however 4-layer, one stands out from the crowd is a minority, and so you have an expensive purchase exported. For local suppliers, it is not worthwhile for some people to produce high quality goods. So it is with most things, of cereals, apartments, cars, etc.

In the supermarkets you can find local and imported from the U.S. orange juice. Despite the high import tariffs, the U.S. orange juice is competitive. The farmer here deserves nothing, but needs more money for farm output genetically altered seeds, etc., while the interest for loans twice as high. Freshly squeezed natural state Orange juice costs only about 1 € per half a liter and of course, is from Colombia :-)

The dream of emigrating and living in paradise, turned out to be so RTL2 myth ...