This is more of an observation than anything else! Ive been in communication with numerous contributors on DR!; contributors that actually live within the DR! What has struck me as interesting, is what amount of money (to be spent on living expenses per month) some people see as being 'a lot' to spend upon living expenses per month. There have been numerous posts that state what 'they' the poster spends per mth. Some claim to need $3000us monthly, others $2000 per month. But just recently i was discussing with another poster what he spends monthly.... $500 (17000rd amonth). And in their opinion they consider this to be 'expensive'. I dont know too many places in the world that you can live for $5-600 a mth. In my personal opinion $500 a mth is 'cheap living' .Infact anything upto $1000 a mth in my opinion i would consider to be cheap living. Im truly amazed at how differently people veiw expensive living