(July 8, 2014 at 8:22 pm)Blackout Wrote: Portugal. We are considered a relatively 'poor' country and are in a crisis, there are growing social inequalities, but still our minimum wage is 475€, I don't know how to explain how much that is worth, but I can tell you a very cheap house rent costs 200€, add the 100€ for taxes of social security and IRS and electricity, water...
Around here, "cheap" rent starts at around US$700, which is about 515€. Minimum wage is higher than the federal minimum wage ($9.10/hr in Oregon, $9.32/hr in Washington [I live near the border, live in one state, work in the other]). Minimum wage ends up being in the neighborhood of $1300/month take home if you can actually *get* 40 hours a week, but it's damn hard to live on that because of the cost of living. Have kids? You're fucked.
