Cost of Living Athens, Greece: How Much Does It Cost Each Month?

We've been lucky enough to be living in Athens for a whole month now and we are absolutely in love with the place. So today we're going to share how much it cost us to live here for an entire month. Hey guys I'm Ross and I'm Bec. So for those of you that are new here we quit our jobs, we travel full-time and we stay in cities for one month at a time. So if you want to follow our journey hit the subscribe button and hit the bell so that you don't miss our future videos. To give you a feel for how much it cost us we've broken it down into eight categories because we think they're the most important areas. So this is always the big one and it's something that we always plan in advance. So we found something on Airbnb and it's spacious, it's really good in terms of location, we're really close to the Acropolis and Monastiraki which is this really cool square to go visit. But there's lots of local restaurants where we are too. It's five minutes from the city. So our total cost there was 672 euros which is the tiniest bit more than what we were spending in Asia. So it's really for us working well. Now if you want to use Airbnb and you haven't done that already we have a link down below where you get a discount and I think it helps us as well. So if you want to support us and you want a discount follow the link. So getting around in Athens is really easy. We have a metro just around the corner and it's super reliable. It's I think 1 euro 50 per trip or if you buy more and you buy five or ten tickets in one go you get a really good deal. So we love that, that was really cool. It's just easy to get to all the key spots in Athens using that. If you want to use a bus do it just sort of cross your fingers a little bit because they're a little bit sporadic when when they come. We've been stuck a few nights in the city at the wrong time and it says it comes every 20 minutes and an hour later we're still waiting. So you know they are good but yeah use the metro if you can. So for lunches and breakfast we just like to keep it really simple. We have a mix between local food and just some home-cooked things. We quite often make a salad in Greece. The local vegetables and fruit are just insane. Tomatoes just taste different here they're so good. So we'll make you know Greek salads and lots of little things at home pretty affordably. I don't know if that's a word affordably. The total cost for us for the month was 175 euros. There's lots of ways that you can keep it tasty and cheap and even if you're out in the city there's lots of little bakeries that you can go in and get yourself a delicious pastry for you know one to two euros. So really cool if you're out on the go just to stop in and they're everywhere. So yeah enjoy those if you come to Athens. Dinner in Greece is pretty good. Most places are going to be less than 10 euros per person. We've found that a lot of the local places that taverna or taverna. I'm not sure how to say it. Put some comments down below but they're really good. You can get mezze really easy. Delicious though. You can get four five different dishes on the table for well under 20 euros and if you really fancy it you can get half a litre of wine for a couple of euros as well. So yeah delicious experiences. The weird thing in Greece is that everywhere we tried just got better and better and better. If you haven't seen our foodie videos check them out. Total cost 352 euros for the month. I'm still hungry thinking about dinner. So fun is kind of a pseudo word for beer and wine for us and look we went out a few times. It's reasonably affordable for like I said in the dinner bid for three euros you can get half a litre of local wine. That's you know why drink anything else. Drink the local stuff. It's great. If you want some beer you can go to a lot of their local little markets. You get a big pint can of beer for a euro to a euro fifty depending on what you're into. If you like beer check out our beer challenge. Now Athens does have some swanky bars as well and I mean swanky I mean a little bit more pricey. So if you're into that thing it's still not too bad in terms of western prices. You're still talking a pretty reasonable price in that five to ten euro zone for cocktails and different spirits but yeah depends what you're into. Total cost was 50 euros probably went out a handful of times. Bills always a big one for for everyone. Everyone loves bills. We get so many comments about bills. Bills were 112 euros for the month. Our main cost is travel insurance and being a full-time traveler I strongly encourage you to have it if you get sick or something happens to your equipment. For us that's you know quite expensive. We need that replaced ASAP so yeah or if we're not well we need to be fixed ASAP. So yeah definitely get yourself some travel insurance. We also pay for a VPN sim cards. We always get a sim card each when we get to a another destination and that's been really good. That's about 10 euros each. Now finally tap water is all good in Greece. It's delicious. So we didn't really need to load up on buying bottled water like we were doing in Asia but we did buy some coffees out and the coffees range in that one to two euro zone. Our total cost for the month was 30 euros and we were really lucky that in our apartment we had this really cool percolator and we went and bought some freshly ground Greek coffee and we would just blend that up every morning in there and it was absolutely delicious. So yeah we were very lucky that we were able to just make it at home and it was almost as tasty as buying it out in a cafe so we were pretty happy with that. But yeah it's not too expensive if you buy one when you're out and about as well. Now our Airbnb host was amazing. Everything was stocked up. There was really nothing left for us to buy so our household goods and sort of the top up on all the bits that you might need was only 18 euros for the whole month. So our total cost for the whole month in Greece and a little asterisk there we loved it and we lived like kings and queens was 1478 euros. Now guys we work online so we've got some different jobs that we do online to earn as much income as we have expenses so we've been trying to do that as we go to really make sure that we cover all of the expenses and we don't dip into any savings. If you're interested in doing that we will run some videos soon sharing what we do and what's been working for for us so if you're interested in that keep your eyes peeled for that. That will be out very soon. Like it, subscribe it, comment it, do all the other things that you need to do. You know what to do and we will see you next time. Bye. So to cover a cost of living we think the best way to do this is to cover these eight categories. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight categories!