I took these percentages for income expenditure from a couple of personal finance sites, I can’t recall which ones as its been a while since I wrote this post now. This was really written with living in a developing country in mind, as I mentioned in the post I think transportation is high in these calculations. I don’t even spend that much now, so that could go to whatever other category you wanted it to. There is also the 10$ leway it allowed to go wherever you think it is needed.

I think living on $1000 would even be possible in many developed countries. I know that my Grandmother lives on about $600 per month in Canada.

The biggest expenses are for technology and travel. Upgrading computers, cameras, iPods, monthly high-speed internet connections and air travel are where most of your budget goes.

I would say that anyone blogging about their life abroad and traveling regularly would probably need to double the budget to about $2000.

Good post. We were in Thailand for over a month this past summer and some days, it was less than $30 a day. We are relocating to Chiang Mai in 2010 for say 2 yrs then possibly South America and working our way to Europe with trips back to the US where we will be living in an RV. We plan to do all this with our 6 yo daughter in tow!.. The best part of all this, like you said, we’re not waiting until we retire. We want to start now, while we’re young. Maybe we’ll meet up in Thailand!