Can you survive in your city if you only have $10 for a day?

Hey!I am from India and $10 per day is a handsome amount for a middle class family like mine.With that I can not only meet my needs but also all of my family members.Even,I can save some for the next day,if I plan correctly.It is all our locality that fixes the amount we have to spend a day for a living.

I would find it difficult to live in USA with the money $10 a day. but with $10 cash in my city life is more than enough even has included a large and still be shopping. :)

For one thing if that's all I got from a job I wouldn't be working that job.Who would work for ten dollars a day?that would be crazy.

Well, my friend. If I were him, I could have saved much. You wonder, how! At first I would have made up my mind that I'll be on fasting for the day. And as a Muslim it's not so hard for me to fast all day long. We the Muslims can work during the month of Ramadan while fasting. Now, in this situation I won't have to spend any money for eating or drinking anything from dawn till dusk. I think you've got my idea very clearly. Now you can calculate how much money I'll be able to save then. Do I have to worry for the next day?

I've had it worse, I've had 10 bucks for a couple of weeks. That's not the idel situation. However, 1.50 would get me a bus pass for a full 24 hours so transportation wouldn't be an issue. But, food might be a bit of a bigger problem. I would have to buy foods that I could cary around, because I've got to eat several times a day. that 10 bucks wouldn't streach very far if I had to be out and about. With the economy the way it is, I'm almost glad I don't have to go out everyday.

$10 is what I spend in a day if I don't bring packed lunches and snacks to work and if I ride a taxi to and from work

Many years ago (actually, 1957) there was a very popular book published called "Europe on $5 a day". It was updated many times and became $10 a day, then $25, then $50 ... these days $500 a day might easily be considered a 'budget' holiday! Of course one's day-to-day existence is (or should be) considerably cheaper than holidays but I still doubt that many people in the West could live with any degree of comfort on $10 a day. Survival, however, is different. Survival only involves the basics of food, water and shelter - things that are sadly lacking at the moment in Haiti. It is possible to find free shelter of a kind in most cities, though I have never tried it and certainly wouldn't recommend it. We have to assume that your man in the example has a home (with water supply, heating, lighting and cooking facilities) that he is paying for (or that is paid for somehow, at any rate) and that the $10 is what he has left over for subsistence. In the UK, $10 is equivalent (at the current exchange rates) to a little more than £6. If I only had that to live on each day, I think that I could survive quite well (provided that I were prepared to give up my habits of smoking and drinking). I would buy food and cook at home rather than spend an exorbitant amount on a Macdonald's - if I did decide to eat out, there are much cheaper and better alternatives: for example, I could buy a meat-filled pie and a pre-packed bag of salad or some fruit for less than half the price; I could buy a loaf of bread (which would last me three days) for £1 or less; cheese and/or meat are the most expensive items but I could allow perhaps £1 a day for these. As for transport, that would depend very much on where I lived and where I worked. Provided that I had no more than about two miles to travel, walking would not be a big hardhip and cycling would be a better option (or do I have to include the cost of a bicycle and its maintenance in my daily budget?). Our bus fares are quite expensive - it would cost £11 a week to buy a ticket to ride freely anywhere in the city I live in - but I have a free bus pass, so it costs me nothing, provided I travel after 9:30am. I think that it is possible, provided that shelter, heating and lighting are already paid for, to live on an average of £6 ($10) a day in this country!

For $10 a day I really think that I would be able to survive. There are a lot of ways to save money that the man in the experiment that you've referred to did not do. One thing that you can do to save money is to prepare your own food and pack your lunch. It is far cheaper to do that than to buy McDonalds and anything that is convenience. To drink tap water saves you a lot of money as well. I also wouldn't buy the chocolate either, I think there are a lot of more important things that you can do with your money than to have treats for yourself.

In the Philippines, $10 is equal to Php460. I would spend about Php10 for coffee in the morning, Php21 to go to work, Php100 for lunch (full meal), Php50 for snacks in the afternoon, Php100 for dinner, and another Php21 to go home. That leaves me about Php100 for the day. This amount could represent my savings for the day. In all the other days that will come, I'd have Php3000 savings for the month. Not bad really but constraining...

I have to ask, what's the country of this man you're talking about? I think it depends on the country. I visited your profile and found out you're from hong kong and hong kong dollars is of less value that US dollars so I assume this man is from hong kong. Am I right? But since you're asking this to all of us members of mylot I should give you an answer. My answer is yes. I can survive a day with 10 dollars on my pocket. And know what? It's already a lot for me. All I need is 3 US dollars a day. I'll spent 1 dollars for my food, 1 dollar for fare, 1 dollar for snack and some extra drinks. :D

I cann't survive with $10 a day if I live in USA. but if I live in my country, it is a lot of money for a day.

Yes I can survive for at least 20 days with that money.Want a bet?

It is not possible in USA with $10. But it is possible in my city. Its($10) a huge amount if is converted into my country currency.

I think i could live off $10 a day. I would have to bicycle to work. Maybe on badweather days I could ask coworkers for a ride. If not just tough it out. If there's already food at house I would just pack my food and bring my water jug. No need to spend money if I do that. If not I've heard of people eating out of dumpster. I mean not yucky food but some places throw away packaged food that is still good. I would try to find those places and eat like that. I might spend like $1 on a coke. Gotta have my caffiene. I would probably skip lunch because I'm not a big lunch eater anyways. If I had a friend and a Chinese eating place nearby we could both throw about $2 -2.50 each and get a $5 dinner plate. Chinese restaurants always pile one serving so big and the rice is so plentiful you could share it with someone and still have leftovers for the next day. I would save whatever I had left that day in an emergency fund. Then next day I would start over.

For someone like me living here in manila, philippines, i should say ,yes. that is equivalent to 460 pesos per day ($1 = Php 46). Well, i gues it depends on the cot of living of a certain area. but if i would be living in your side of town, i do not think I can. Just sharing.

I myself can survive on $10 a day. On a average day I'd probably spend the most on electricity and making meals for my family. During the school year I do very little driving other than for me to go to work and I only work 2mi from home. I think it depends where you live and the type of lifestyle you can afford. My hubby would not be able to survive as he averaged $20 a day just for food then add cigs, and gas to get to work,.. yeah he's expensive but he's working on it.

Hi. wildlittlefan. I think that I could for just one day that is. And, it could only be used just for me and me alone. I would not be able to share it with anyone. I would have to save as much as I could. Everything that I buy will have to be only one dollar or less. This is the only way that I can make this ten dollars stretch.

i think i cannot survive but in my country i will survie in 10$ because my country is very poor...

definitely! I can survive with that money for 3 days. For your information I'm staying in Penang, Malaysia and the cost of living is quite low actually.

I live in Italy...it's impossible to live with 8€ (= 10$) a day. I could live everyday life, but how can I have the money to pay the home rental or the bills? I could save 2€ if I go to school or work by foot and I come back home to cook some pasta to eat. I think the minimum that I can spend is 5€ daily (= 6,3$).