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- I know theres a swine flu there. This question is in regard for about a year from now,
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Mexico City is a great place to visit for a month!
It would be nice to have some more details about what you are looking to do in Mexico City.
Anyways, you can rent a decent (not a first rate hotel, but clean and safe) hotel room in downtown Mexico City for about $700 pesos per week, but that's with a shared bath. It also includes free internet in the lobby and a safe for your things. You can get a room w/bath for about $1,000 pesos per week. It really depends on what you want. There are many hotels in the Centro Historico (Downtown) which is close to many sights and things to see and do.
Yes, there's human flu in Mexico. It's also in the US and now it's in many other countries.
As for the cost of daily living: A ride on the Metro subway system costs $2.00 pesos (less than $0.20 US cents), a short taxi ride costs about $20 pesos, a bus costs about 3-4 pesos in the DF.
A tour of the city by Turibus costs about $150 pesos for all day.
Food: A tamale and a cup of atole (a steaming hot rice drink, often Chocolate or strawberry flavored) costs about 15 pesos. There's your breakfast. Lunch at a small-medium family run restaurant, the set menu comida corrida which usually includes soup, rice, beans, a main dish (enchiladas, beef or chicken steak, fish etc), a dessert, tortillas and a drink of agua fresca (flavored water, like juice) should cost between $40-50 pesos. Dinner: six tacos and a coke= $38 pesos (5 pesos per taco, 8 pesos for the coke. So your total for one day of food= $93 pesos mas o menos (more or less) and that's way under $10 USD at the current exchange rate of about $13.2 pesos to $1 USD.
Here is a list of prices for Mexico City. Some of these seem a little low, so maybe the list is a little old:
Costs of living
Automotive
Gas - Premium $ 1.54/gal.
Medical and Dental
Doctor's office visit $ 30.00
Housing
(good neighborhood)
1 bedroom apartment, with living room, kitchen and bath (rent) $300 /mo
6 room apartament,
2 bedrooms (rent) $400 /mo
Unfurnished garden style condo witht pool 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, apartment (rent) $550 /mo
3 bedrooms, 2 baths house $1000 /mo
Utilities
Electricity $12.00 /mo
Propane gas for cooking/ hot water $20.00 /mo
Telephone - Basic service $22.00 /mo
Drinking water $ 6.00 /mo
Telecommunications
Basic monthly cellular service $ 50.00
Basic monthly pager service $ 15.00
Internet server connection service (ilimited) $ 45.00
Basic cable channel connection $ 30.00
Auto related
Auto insurance $90 for $1,000.00 value car (annual)
Auto registration $40 for $1,000.00 value car (annual)
Oil change $9.00
Tune-up $70.00
Basic
Groceries for one $55.00
Groceries for four $150.00/month
Entertainment
Movie ticket $ 3.50
Theater ticket $ 8.50
Gym $40.00 /mo
Maid
Maid-house cleaning 1 day $10.00
Laundry and Dry Cleaner
Dry Clean-trousers or skirt $2.00
Restaurant/Eating Out
Dinner-1st class restaurant $15.00
Dinner, medium priced restaurant $ 9.00
Corona Beer-6 pack (325 ml) $ 2.00
Coca-Cola- 2 liter bottle $ 0.89
Milk- 1 liter $ 0.60
Billingual School
Primary education $150.00 /mo
Secundary education $200.00 /mo
High School $280.00 /mo
College $400.00 /mo
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Bueno Suerte!
Viva Mexico!
Mexico City is a great place to visit for a month!
It would be nice to have some more details about what you are looking to do in Mexico City.
Anyways, you can rent a decent (not a first rate hotel, but clean and safe) hotel room in downtown Mexico City for about $700 pesos per week, but that's with a shared bath. It also includes free internet in the lobby and a safe for your things. You can get a room w/bath for about $1,000 pesos per week. It really depends on what you want. There are many hotels in the Centro Historico (Downtown) which is close to many sights and things to see and do.
Yes, there's human flu in Mexico. It's also in the US and now it's in many other countries.
As for the cost of daily living: A ride on the Metro subway system costs $2.00 pesos (less than $0.20 US cents), a short taxi ride costs about $20 pesos, a bus costs about 3-4 pesos in the DF.
A tour of the city by Turibus costs about $150 pesos for all day.
Food: A tamale and a cup of atole (a steaming hot rice drink, often Chocolate or strawberry flavored) costs about 15 pesos. There's your breakfast. Lunch at a small-medium family run restaurant, the set menu comida corrida which usually includes soup, rice, beans, a main dish (enchiladas, beef or chicken steak, fish etc), a dessert, tortillas and a drink of agua fresca (flavored water, like juice) should cost between $40-50 pesos. Dinner: six tacos and a coke= $38 pesos (5 pesos per taco, 8 pesos for the coke. So your total for one day of food= $93 pesos mas o menos (more or less) and that's way under $10 USD at the current exchange rate of about $13.2 pesos to $1 USD.
Here is a list of prices for Mexico City. Some of these seem a little low, so maybe the list is a little old:
Costs of living
Automotive
Gas - Premium $ 1.54/gal.
Medical and Dental
Doctor's office visit $ 30.00
Housing
(good neighborhood)
1 bedroom apartment, with living room, kitchen and bath (rent) $300 /mo
6 room apartament,
2 bedrooms (rent) $400 /mo
Unfurnished garden style condo witht pool 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, apartment (rent) $550 /mo
3 bedrooms, 2 baths house $1000 /mo
Utilities
Electricity $12.00 /mo
Propane gas for cooking/ hot water $20.00 /mo
Telephone - Basic service $22.00 /mo
Drinking water $ 6.00 /mo
Telecommunications
Basic monthly cellular service $ 50.00
Basic monthly pager service $ 15.00
Internet server connection service (ilimited) $ 45.00
Basic cable channel connection $ 30.00
Auto related
Auto insurance $90 for $1,000.00 value car (annual)
Auto registration $40 for $1,000.00 value car (annual)
Oil change $9.00
Tune-up $70.00
Basic
Groceries for one $55.00
Groceries for four $150.00/month
Entertainment
Movie ticket $ 3.50
Theater ticket $ 8.50
Gym $40.00 /mo
Maid
Maid-house cleaning 1 day $10.00
Laundry and Dry Cleaner
Dry Clean-trousers or skirt $2.00
Restaurant/Eating Out
Dinner-1st class restaurant $15.00
Dinner, medium priced restaurant $ 9.00
Corona Beer-6 pack (325 ml) $ 2.00
Coca-Cola- 2 liter bottle $ 0.89
Milk- 1 liter $ 0.60
Billingual School
Primary education $150.00 /mo
Secundary education $200.00 /mo
High School $280.00 /mo
College $400.00 /mo
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Bueno Suerte!
Viva Mexico!
How expensive is it to live in LA?
camille
I'm going to college next year, most likely in LA at FIDM. But i'm just so scared because I know its expensive out there and i'm coming all the way from Indiana. I don't know anybody out there either. It all just sounds so far fetched and impossible, but if i want to make it in the field its basically either LA or NYC. So, whats the cheapest part of LA that's not terribly dangerous? Could I get an apartment for less that $1000 or is that just like impossible?
Answer
Live in the FIDM housing at first, preferably right near the campus (rather than Park LaBrea, unless you don't mind the commute and like the area), then see if you meet anyone to roommate with, or find a studio apartment to live by yourself. The FIDM apartments are actually good deals for an LA furnished apartment with utilities included, and while downtown LA isn't the best place to live, the FIDM apartments are nice, and very convenient to FIDM. Look on the FIDM website for info.
It is also very convenient to have an apartment all ready for you, setting up an apartment is a lot if work, first, you'd have to find a landlord willing to rent to someone under 21, with no credit or rental history, no substantial job, and parents across the country. Then you'd have to buy furniture, furnished apartments rent for quite a bit more, even close to double unfurnished, and they're hard to find in low end buildings, set up utilities and deposits, buy household goods (pots, pans, towels, etc). It's a lot of work.
The cost for FIDM apartments is $300 a week ($3000 for the 10 week Quarter) for a shared bedroom, $600 for a private bedroom. This will give you time to figure out the best area to live should you decide to move. Low crime areas are a bit far from FIDM, if you don't have a car, it might be a hassle, since you will likely be working on group projects late night at FIDM, and it's not a good idea to take public transportation late at night.
You can find a studio in LA starting at $800 (more on the Westside), but you might not like it or the area, you might have to spend $1000 for a studio you're ok with, or find a roommate and a 2 bedroom, which likely won't save much on rent. Lower crime areas relatively close to FIDM include Glendale and South Pasadena, but the commute takes 20 minutes, or longer in traffic.
Good luck!
Live in the FIDM housing at first, preferably right near the campus (rather than Park LaBrea, unless you don't mind the commute and like the area), then see if you meet anyone to roommate with, or find a studio apartment to live by yourself. The FIDM apartments are actually good deals for an LA furnished apartment with utilities included, and while downtown LA isn't the best place to live, the FIDM apartments are nice, and very convenient to FIDM. Look on the FIDM website for info.
It is also very convenient to have an apartment all ready for you, setting up an apartment is a lot if work, first, you'd have to find a landlord willing to rent to someone under 21, with no credit or rental history, no substantial job, and parents across the country. Then you'd have to buy furniture, furnished apartments rent for quite a bit more, even close to double unfurnished, and they're hard to find in low end buildings, set up utilities and deposits, buy household goods (pots, pans, towels, etc). It's a lot of work.
The cost for FIDM apartments is $300 a week ($3000 for the 10 week Quarter) for a shared bedroom, $600 for a private bedroom. This will give you time to figure out the best area to live should you decide to move. Low crime areas are a bit far from FIDM, if you don't have a car, it might be a hassle, since you will likely be working on group projects late night at FIDM, and it's not a good idea to take public transportation late at night.
You can find a studio in LA starting at $800 (more on the Westside), but you might not like it or the area, you might have to spend $1000 for a studio you're ok with, or find a roommate and a 2 bedroom, which likely won't save much on rent. Lower crime areas relatively close to FIDM include Glendale and South Pasadena, but the commute takes 20 minutes, or longer in traffic.
Good luck!
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