If you are considering the possibility of going to live in the North American country, you must take into account the cost of living in this place. In recent years, the United States has also been hit by inflation, in addition to the current price of the Colombian peso compared to the dollar.
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Although some states in the country are more expensive than others, this is a general balance of everyday American life and its prices. The most important thing to get to the country is to have medical insurance.
In the United States, insurance policies work differently and to avoid the high costs of emergency services in case of illness, you must quickly purchase insurance. These have an average price of 150 dollars, which would currently be about 570 thousand Colombian pesos.
The second thing to consider when moving to the United States is housing. The price of this depends on many factors such as the city, the neighborhood, the area, whether it is a house or an apartment, number of rooms, among other things.
An apartment with three or four bedrooms has an average price of 1,500 dollars, about 5,690,432 million pesos. As for services, the cost is usually divided as follows:
Internet: between 220,000 and 350.00 pesos.
Mobile phone: between 265,000 and 380.00 pesos per month.
Cleaning: from 300,000 to 380,000 pesos weekly.
Electricity: between 470,000 and 645,000 monthly.
If you have children and want to hire a babysitter, the standard price is 3,000,000 Colombian pesos.
As for food, if you want to eat in a restaurant, it is important to remember that you must leave more than 15% tip. A family of four in the United States spends between 1,800,000 and 3,000,000 million Colombian pesos on food each month.
Generally in this country people move with their own vehicle. The purchase of one that is not branded is between 22 and 45 million Colombian pesos. Car insurance is 95,000 pesos per month and gasoline on average is 380,000 pesos per month.
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Studies
If you want to study in this country, public schools are a good option. But if you are looking for a private one, you will need to keep in mind that these are expensive. The price of one ranges between 22 and 100 million pesos per year.
University courses in the United States are between 75 and 110 million pesos.In total, to live in this country, between 6,830,685 and 13,281,888 million Colombian pesos are needed monthly.
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