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mr tree · Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 98 Location: Prague, CzR

Hi Neville,

I appreciate Aussie Chick taking the time to add her views, and her advice comes with good intentions, as does your own. And they show two vastly different ends to the scale!! I think I am somewhere in the middle..... No, that's a lie, i'm definitely at the poor end of the scale!! But I love it here and i'm happier than I was in England on half the money...

I work 23hrs a work at Caledonian. So my monthly pay is about 16k after tax. (that's no definitive figure, it has jumped around a little...).
I got lucky and found a crackin' flat for 7500czk all-included, sharing with a local (who speaks great English).
Paying 10k for somewhere to live is crazy, IMHO.

I could do more hours and get more money, but i can't be bothered, to be honest. I'm no party animal but I go out pretty often, drink and smoke pretty heavily, but I have enough money to survive.

It is certainly subsistence. I think I read that basically, you should approach your time in Prague as a Zero, financially - you will not leave with more than you started with, unless you wanna work heavily and have no fun and what's the point of that? The positives in terms of life experience outweigh any financial poverty, again in my humble opinion...

Oh 150czk per meal?! you gotta shop around sweetheart! i went "somewhere" classy t'other day and paid 120czk, but it was worth it! our school do decent meals for 80-100, and 100 seems pretty standard if you know where to go. i.e. not around Vaclavske Namesti, Staromestska or Charles Bridge. they rip off tourists, and hell why not? find a local to show you the good places...

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

Thanks, mr tree. I AM a local Very Happy

Sure, I could eat for 50 kc if I wanted to. But a reasonable dinner out, not in the tourist areas, well, I question what you're getting for 100.

ITTP · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 343 Location: Prague/Worldwide

Don't you live near Tabor Spiral?
(Tabor is quite a way from Prague).

I must vehemently agree with mr tree that there is a plethora of standard restaurants which offer meals for under 100 CZK in Prague 1.
ok, it won't be foix gras but surely chicken steak or gulas isn't considered too prol is it? Smile

But, and as I was hoping, perhaps some other teachers could chip in here?

TEFL LOVE

Neville Smile

ITTP Prague
Jungmannova 32
Prague 1

ITTP · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 343 Location: Prague/Worldwide

... I will invite you Spiral the next time you r in Prague for a meal and a discount restaurant tour.
How 'bout it? Smile

Then you can see for yourself.
I'm serious and will also be good to meet up for a chin wag.
Pls feel free to send me a PM...

Neville Smile

ITTP Prague
Jungmannova 32
Prague 1

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

I lived three years in Prague. We own a place near Tabor. I work full time in Netherlands Shocked

this year - last year, I was in the CR for eight months, about half the time in Prague working on projects.

Doesn't mr tree count? After all, he agrees with you about the 100kc!!

I personally maintain 120 to 150. But between you and the tree, I am currently outvoted. I'm not conceding yet, though!!

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

I've sent the pm. How could I refuse? Very Happy

Many thanks, looking forward to it!

ITTP · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 343 Location: Prague/Worldwide

PM received.
Thanks Smile

Neville

ITTP Prague
Jungmannova 32
Prague 1

Aussie Chick · Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 104 Location: Australia