Topic: Is there a place in the world you could live like a king via sig campaigns? - page 23. (Read 7709 times)

$1500/week is definitely going to give you a good lifestyle here in Ph (even with 5 people in a household) just like how some of my country men explains to you.
Now, If we're talking about applying for citizenship, afaik you need to stay here for several years, marry a filipina, or have a filipino business partner.
However, you can still own an airspace like condos here without any citizenship requirements, thus live a comfortable life and you're considered to be in a rich in PH's social stratification structure.
An individual who earns at least $1,000/month is considered wealthy. So,  $1500 for 5 person, that's 1,200/month individually and that is more than enough.

I think The Pharmacist is neither is such a rice lover, nor wants to connect his life with rice The Pharmacist - the king of rice.

You can rely measure comfort life with bag of rice. How long can he survive this rice tortures? Maybe two months? Once I tried to experience bodybuilders eating routine. I ate only rice and boiled chicken breasts. In the middle of third week I had nausea when I saw rice.

What will he do in Nigeria? Except feeling himself like a tourist during first weeks? What can he achieve there?

I think it is more a joke than a serious question. It is impossible to live like a king with signature campaign earnings. Because people have growing appetites and get used to things. While signature campaign reward is constant.

In my view, the world has become more balanced than in the past and people move more. This means that there are no free meals. If you want to have decent health care, it will cost you quite a bit anywhere because it is no longer about the doctor's pay. If you want security, you either live in a safe country (with strong taxes and redistribution) or you have to pay your own - again, good's not cheap.

I am interested in learning about any country in which I can have security, at least basic freedom, decent healthcare and can pay all that on, let's say, 500 USD a month.

The first thing that we need to establish is that there is a lot of inequality in the world:


If a person is getting $300 a week from the signature campaign, that means they're getting about $42 a day. That's a reasonable amount of money to survive anywhere in the world, relatively speaking, as that person won't be below the poverty line in a high-income country such as Norway:



So, basically you would be able to survive pretty much anywhere in the world. But let's see where you get a better deal.



We can see that in Burundi the average income is $1.50 a day, and 80% of the people there live on less than $1.90. Your $42 a day means you would be earning 22 times more than the vast majority of people there.

Now, let's go even further. We can see the whole world, mapped in a way that shows the percentage of people of each country that live on less than $3.2 a day:



The largest percentages appear all around Africa, and South Sudan in particular which has the largest percentage at 93.27%. You can see the source from this table.

If you move to South Sudan, your $300/week campaign would put you well above the vast majority of locals. But then there's the question of what you can get with that money, as most hotels and other facilities are aimed to tourists, not locals, and priced accordingly.

South Sudan is very underdeveloped for locals, so probably you won't get the best bang for your buck there, and also the people around you would be living a terrible life, which would lower your own quality of life as well:


The best answer is probably somewhere in the middle, where locals have a reasonable quality of life, and you going there would allow you to live in the upper side of society. But then there would probably be personal choices that you would have to value, like access to beaches, quality of food, language of locals, weather, and so on. Interesting question.

Anyone in Nigeria who moderates their way of living  knows that $300 weekly is a very big amount of money. Am talking of a country whose minimum wage is N30,000 a month. That is about $52. Some of this workers who receive that also have those who depend on them financially. That is a country where over 70% of its population are poor and lives on $2 a day. Anyone getting $300, that is N172,500 in Nigeria will live life very well, except he wants to live it very high like sportsmen and women who like flashy cars and things. Imagine what that amount can achieve in a country where someone is happy getting N30,000 monthly which can not even buy a 50kg bag of rice and you offer him N172,500 weekly. That will be a dream offer. A bag of rice in most parts of Nigeria is between N32,000 to N39,000. With inflation eating deep into the economy of my country and cost of living rising makes the minimum wage amount to nothing. $1,500 weekly will be someone living like a Saudi Arabian Prince even with more than 5 people. It is a very big amount of money.

Romania is a country where 1000$ / month (after taxes) is already a good pay.

With 1500$ a week you can easily^* afford to buy either a flat in the city, either a smaller house or a half of a duplex in the one of the "bedroom-villages" next to the bigger cities of the country and have a pretty good life. Not havanas, whiskey and hookers 24/7, still a good life. If I'd have such an income and no kids at school I would probably spend most of the year in holidays.


^* It may worth mentioning though that with that kind of income probably no bank will lend the money for buying, so it may not be that easy after all. But strictly from the income point of view it's easy-peasy.

Looking at all these posts and especially at some number links, I wonder why the assumption is that a poorer country will be way cheaper than a medium emerging economy and that you need to go to the end of the world for it. Spent a bit of time picking the cities mentioned and I just throw an eastern Europe capital against it :

Budapest and Jakarta

Sofia and Dhaka

Bucharest and Manila

Zagreb and Lagos

So, not really that much difference in funds need trying to be some African Warlord of an Oligarch.

That being said, I'm really curious, leaving the whole earning from a signature thing aside, have any of the responses made you think of moving to another country assuming you would get a real long-term job there paying this amount? Let's say you get an offer for twice this, 2400$ a month, would you consider it even a bit?

That is right, people who try to make signature campaign their main source of income turns out to be spammers. They always drop low quality content in the forum. Most of them don’t even care about questions that are being asked on the thread, they just start dropping whatever they want so that they can be able to post as many comments as possible to be able to increase their earnings at the end of the month. But that can be a problem for them if the moderators should find out.

So, it’s really not good. But if you are someone that can make out time to just be on the forum and be answering questions for the whole day, then you can go ahead and do that as long as your answers are not spamming.

Another thing you need to take into account is your safety. What is the point of cheap food and housing if you live in an extremely dangerous country and if some gang finds out you make $6000 a month they can kidnap you.

There are many safe places in USA and Canada where you can live in a huge house, couple cars, lots of food, etc for $6000 a month. The mortgage would be maybe $2K a month. I am not talking about living in Vancouver or New York but some low population state where houses are reasonable. You will feel safe there and everything.

A 1750-2000 Sq house is more than enough space for 5 people. Privacy might be an issue however.

Dude $1500/month is insane, here in India people work $3-$6 wage jobs and so called bank jobs which many here consider luxury, pay 20k rs/month (~$250) - when you start it is even lower. I think first word country people need to travel a bit and realize how cheap living could be.

You could live in 3rd world posh area and have same standard of living as your home yet the cost would be much less.

There is lots of country you can live like a king in this expenses you always know about that rather than live like a king in others country live like a simply happy Bird in own country is most satisfied thing in this world. Also like happily with family in your own country is the best thing of the world!!

I think i can do it from my Country Bangladesh cz in this country you can rent a expensive house in just 300-400$ also living cost also will luxury if you cost more 500-600$ per month there is lots of luxury people who live happily more than low cost in this country just you need to know that how to live happily then you will understand how people live happyly in just low cost!!

Sticking to this assumption that accomodation and mobility (a car) has been settled, this is economics, and for five persons $1500 could create a comfortable lifestyle if properly utilized. For a country like Nigeria, you can cut down daily cost by purchasing things in bulk calculatedly...This method will still create a comfortable life, and you will live with four other persons (5 persons total) comfortably.


To cut cost, you can seek alternative renewable means of power like solar to support the petrol use, so you reduce the time you run your generator.


Get food stuffs in bulk, you will notice that you will spend less in a long run compared to spending daily.

Don't just buy clothes for no reason, buy clothes for particular occasions... so you don't buy unnecessary things you don't need. if you have less clothes that are important, you will have less clothes to launder.

To be a king doesn't always mean that you should spend extravagantly.

Hello there, The Pharmacist. I am from the Philippines and I can give you an idea of how much the living cost in my area. Then you can decide if that amount can make you live like a king or not.  
I will just use the individual rate on your example and that's $300 per week or $1200 per month. Which is 60k in PHP using 50PHP = $1. That's a manager's monthly salary Manila-based job. (different rates in provinces - lower)
A house that I am paying to own costs - 6000 PHP per month and I will pay it for 30 years. Rent in Manila for a condominium unit may cost more like 10000 - 15000
Electric bill - 3000 PHP AC room only with complete appliances.
Water bill - 500 PHP
Internet line - 2500 PHP - 100-200 mbps
Monthly grocery with 2 kids - 10000 PHP
Daily food - 300 PHP - 30 days - 9000 PHP

That's just 31k PHP for a family to live with good food on the table for a month. Most employee do have a base salary of 10-15k PHP per month and they can still smile every day.
Now, if it's shared, it will cost lesser and if they are all single they can have Saturday Nights even on Tuesday.

(Didn't include medical, insurance, and others as it will be an option discretely.)

Thrive, yes. Live that would provide shelter, food, and necessities and maybe more, yes. Depends on each person if they would share equally.
But this thing will just be effective if those 5 people that earns $300 each (per week? am I right?) are all single. Living the life.  
That amount though will not suffice for a man who needs to feed a kid and a wife. I mean the $300. It's way different if you singlehandedly shoulder everything. I've heard stories about that it can in other countries but I doubt it can bring a kid to college.
Edit: Sorry I forgot it's for a week, my mind keeps on telling me it's for a month. I am changing to yes, it will suffice.

Hi mate, do you think The Pharmacist doesn't already know that? I think we all agree with that, he is talking about a hypothetical idea:


In his response to my comment, he also talked about supplementing the income from signature campaigns with other sources of income.


The Pharmacist is not going to become a shitposter all of a sudden, neither are you and I, no matter how much we have minimum posting requirements in our sig campaign, and in any case, in that hypothetical situation he would have more time to write, as we have been talking about, so I only see sense in your comment if it is directed to lower ranked members who are starting in this.


Maybe because you only post in the collectibles section? Campaign managers usually want people spreading the posts all over the forum, not just one section.

Going back to the main point of the thread, I think that even though we are talking about a hypothetical situation it is interesting to always have options open, because you never know what can happen in the future. Being able to earn money only with a computer and an internet connection gives you a freedom of options, regardless of the sources of income you have are more or less stable. But having savings, plus 1 or 2 sources of good income gives you a freedom of choice that someone who only has a source of income from a job that requires physical presence does not have.

I have followed the thread and seen some interesting answers, what I was also thinking is that maybe if someone considers doing what The Pharmacist says in 5 years (assuming that there are still well paid campaigns by then) maybe there will be some country that has revealed itself as the best to go to that we do not take into account now. To give an example, if this thread had been written 5 years ago, El Salvador would not have been considered as much of an option as it may be now.

This is family we are talking about, possibly your siblings but either of the way, some people derived pleasure when living together with others and i can bet you it derives more benefit than living alone i can't just start with the mentions. I also understand that whatsoever thing nature blesses you with is not meant for you alone but to be enjoyed with people around you while in doing so you're obeying the law of giving and practicing the act of humanity in showing love with brotherhood.


There are countries around the Asia continent like  India where one can live comfortably without the fear of nothing, the campaign earnings will be satisfactorily enough to sustain and maintain a comfort living for the family, and one other consideration is the acceptability of cryptocurrency activities in such region and India could be a good idea to showcase your cryptocurrency acquired skills in the region like opening a location for bitcoin/cryptocurrency trading centre, creating an exchange, teachings cryptocurrency tutorials, and other digital entrepreneurial skills to the people which does not hinders your chipmixer campaign obligations and this solely rely on you seeing this is possible which is your mindset created for such approach.

Therefore, base on your ability to adapt to a new environment, your roburstful thinking, and commitment to striving for a better live and change, you can create a good living along with five people since you are the main determinant of this situation.

There are places in the world where life could be really cheap and one could build a haven put of the little plunder from campaigns here in the forum. I won't point to any nation in particular but, if I were to make an analysis based on my nation Nigeria, when we talk about living an average lifestyle, its possible.

Nigeria is a rich nation and like every other Africans, we believe very much in spending money and living out the good just to ensure we pay less attention to our government. The average Nigeria would like to spend most of his or her money on food, drinks, cloths and entertainment in the likes of musics/concerts, a few cars and maybe a good home. Not a Palace or castle per say but, just a normal bungalow with at least 3 bedrooms. Lest say, you have all these covered @House and Cars. Looking at the daily lifestyle of a Nigerian, earning a much as $1500/W, your daily spendable analysis would be some worth as these;

One commodity that is sure to such up your finances is the cost of petrol and that comes into play when your not living in a government residential area.

Petrol cost as much as #200 = $0.37 per litre and as such, 40litres should be enough to fuel your electrical generator and maybe your car for a day which could amount to $15.

On food, Kilimajaro is one of the best restaurants and brands around. An average meal, let's say a plat of rice and chicken, with salad and a litre of yoghurt would cost about, #4000 = $7.12. This could be relative to cover for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Hence, your more likely to spend $21.36 on food daily.

Looking at cloths, it varies depending on what you want and as a classic man with style. I can estimate on this but, it could plunder a lot into your earnings and cloths isn't something you buy everyday.
Although, you could do your laundry as low as #500 = $0.98 per clothen article.

Drinks are variable and largely based on brands. Wines and most of the bar drinks are imported and as such, the price is relative except with a slight increase. Let's say, a 10-20% increase.

I can't accurately give a complete stats on this but, life could be fair for a campaign participant earning as much as $1500/W. One thing that makes life for an average Nigerian is trying to live upto the life's of the celebrities and billionaires around, trying to go with the trend but, setting that aside, you could live okay.
The minimum wage is barely #30,000 = $52.35 and that's on a monthly bases. It's really challenging for the few living on that but on a ground scale of $1500/W, your sure to live okay and like a King of your own domain.

Mainly, the part to getting a Nigerian citizenship is by having blood ties to a Nigerian and possibly marriage but other means could be found here : https://ecitibiz.interior.gov.ng/citizenship/requirements.

For what is worth, life isn't that easy in Nigeria but with a constant source of income and depending on how weighty it is, Nigeria becomes a very enjoyable country.

Living with 5 roommates is the opposite of living like a king. People need personal space, even if they live in a large house. So instead if you think about $300/week and living alone, there's a ton of countries in the world, basically any developing country, that would allow to do that due to cheap rent, bills, groceries. But it's also a question of compromises. If you mostly sit at home, you'd better live in some small and distant city, rather than the country's capital. If you like to communicate with people, you should look for a country with compatible culture and social values. Some people just can't live in a climate that it is too hot or too cold.

Everyone has different understanding of what "living like a king" means. But in countries where most people earn $100 to $400 per month, earning $300/week would certainly make you more comfortable than the local population. Just keep in mind that a lot of the luxury stuff, like electronics or cars, will still cost as much as it costs in the West, or even much more in certain cases.

The average monthly wage for some regions in africa is $40 a month. There are regions in the world with far lower average cost of living, in contrast to developed nations like the united states.

Earning revenue via internet has encouraged many to migrate to nations with lower average expenses. Essentially they're become known as digital nomads.

There are places in the world which offer free land to anyone willing to move there who can cover their basic costs. Parcels of land which might normally be worth thousands in a good location can be had for nothing. Of course there is a catch to it. It is usually in a ghost town or area which would not be appealing to most. Although I would guess there could be a few who could take this type of opportunity coupled with income from a sig campaign and turn it into a goldmine.

But I guess the only way to truly live like a king would be to slowly exchange sig campaign earnings for assets which will greatly appreciate in value. Or for equipment which might be used to start a business that generates revenue.