Hello everyone, welcome back to ItalianPod101.com. |
My name is Desy, mi chiamo Desy, mi chiamo Desy, and in this video, we're going to talk about money. |
So keep watching and discover about living costs in Italy. |
Il costo della vita in Italia. |
So the first thing that you need to live in a country or to live anywhere else in the world |
is a place to stay at, right? |
So let's talk about rent. |
Rent is affitto, in Italian. |
To rent is affittare. |
The owner is called proprietario. |
Proprietario, I know this is hard to say, but it's also kind of satisfying to pronounce it. |
Proprietario. |
The owner, while you, the tenant, would be called affittuario. |
Affittuario. |
The one that lives in, the one who rents. |
From affittare, which is to rent, right? |
The price of the rent really depends on the city and the region that you're in, |
and of course, if it's in the city, it's more expensive than outside. |
But on average, we can say that it's 10 euros per meter square. |
Per square meters? This. |
That means that for a house that is about 50 square meters, |
you're supposed to pay at least 600 euros, okay? |
Some more useful vocabulary can be contratto, contract that you have to sign, to have rent, |
and something that you want to confirm before you sign is the amount of spese condominiali. |
The condo fees, buildings expenses, because sometimes they're not specified, |
and that's when you will pay more than what you expected, |
which is not a nice surprise, so better ask before about spese condominiali. |
Which are usually about 50, sometimes even more, but it depends on the building, of course. |
Then we have the bills. |
So bollette, bollette, bollette are the bills. |
We have aqua, water, aqua, gas, it's just gas, and for electricity, |
we don't really say elettricità, but luce, luce, the light, luce, gas, aqua. |
That's the three main things that you have to pay for, |
and maybe we want to also put the internet, which is internet in Italian as well, |
and we can count about, let's say, 100 euros for that, 100 euro, 100 euros, 100 euro. |
Of course, that also really depends on the usage that you do of it, |
like how much you spend, how much energy you use, |
but that's also something that is going to be cut if you can share the house with someone, right? |
Something else that we need to talk about is transportations. |
Here too, it really depends on the city. |
It goes from 20 to 50 euros per month for the monthly pass for buses and trains. |
So let's say 50 in the worst-case scenario, and the pass is called abbonamento. |
Pass mensile, while settimanale, settimanale is weekly, the weekly pass, abbonamento settimanale. |
Maybe you're using a car, and one litre of gasoline, which is benzina, benzina, |
is always around 1 euro and 40 cents, sometimes even more, rarely less. |
As for food, considering that the classic Italian breakfast is about, |
on average, 2 euros, 2 euro, okay, for caffè or cappuccino and brioche, |
and 1 euro point 5 for a litre of milk, latte, 2 euros and 50 for a dozen of eggs, |
una dozzina di uova. |
If we consider that a pizza can go from 3.5, and I'm not talking about a slice, but a whole pizza, |
and you may be wondering why that has to be considered, and if you're going to live here, |
you're going to get like us, meaning you're going to have pizza at least once a week. |
That being said, it goes from 3.5 euros till 10, let's say one pizza, it depends on the restaurant, |
and considering that fast food is around maybe 8 euros, I'm talking about the whole menu, |
of course then you can spend less, and that a restaurant can be, let's say 20-25 euros per |
person minimum, a study proved that on average one person spends 250 euros per month. |
Then of course it depends on the kind of life that you're living, like if you go to the restaurant |
every day, that's going to be way more expensive, while if you are on a budget, |
maybe you don't go out at all, you don't even eat pizza, so of course those are things that |
always need to be considered, and also keep in mind that south is usually cheaper than the north, |
but that being said, my tip is, no matter where you are, to go and look for markets. |
We have markets, i mercati. Every morning, every day of the week, there are markets, |
you just need to find out where. If you're in a small city, there is the possibility that they |
only hold that once or twice a week, but there has to be one, okay, and if you go there, it's |
going to be cheaper and things are fresher as well. And lastly, let's talk about entertainment. |
Let's say that you want to go to the cinema. Andare al cinema will cost you about 7 euros, |
7 to 8 just for the ticket, and if it's 3D or something, 10 euros, and I'm not talking about |
any discounts here, okay, just a regular ticket, while if you're going to a museum, that's also |
about 10 euros, right? Here my tip is to look for not even coupons, even though there are some, |
but just for the days. For the cinema, usually it's Wednesday, but for museums, depending on |
the city, in my city, for example, in Turin, the first Tuesday of the month, they're free. |
So that's my tip there. Just gather information, just check, go to the info point in your city, |
check online. There are always days when there are discounts. Discounts, by the way, which is |
another important word if we're talking about budget, is sconti. So let's try to sum the |
expenses, le spese. If we have affitto, we said 600 euros, but let's say you are gonna split it |
with someone, so let's say 300 euros, then we add 100 for bills, okay, quindi affitto, 300 euro, |
plus 100 euro per le spese, for utilities, 400, right? Quattrocento. Let's say 50 euro, |
50 euros for transportations, and 250 for food, 250 cibo, and let's add 100 for entertainment, |
so divertimenti. With this only, we're about 800 euros, right? We're around 800 euros, 800 euro, |
but we're not counting any expenses for daily life and let's say clothes and if you need to |
buy books for school or anything else, right? So we're just talking about the bare minimum, |
800 euros and salaries are usually around, let's say, 1200, mille e duecento, |
starting at it should, then sometimes it's even less and I'm talking about the full time, |
so yeah, this is just a general idea. Then, of course, there are many, many variants that |
have to be considered, but let's say that to live in Italy, you need at least 800 euros a month, |
800 euro al mese. Although there are many other details that can be considered, |
I hope this video gave you a general idea and some useful vocabulary for your life in Italy, |
for your vita in Italia and if you want to learn more useful expressions for your future life in |
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Thank you for watching, grazie and I hope to see you soon, ci vediamo presto, ciao ciao, bye bye. |
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