Per Month

Rent in one of top cities for one bedder, mold on walls, crap carpet, freezing due to no insulation: 1000-1200
Food: (if you actually want to eat more than rice and lentils, which, by the way are expensive and hard to find) 600
Electricity: 150 a month in summer 300 in winter (most houses are uninsulated shacks)
Phone: 150 a month with internet (slow, substandard)

Total: approx. 2,300 a month on substandard lifestyle, no entertainment. no car, no private health insurance

Other odds and ends:
Pizza: 25 dollars large size
Takeaway Indian food (crap, btw) 60.00 for two
Movie: 17.00 for one
Lettuce: 3.50 a head
2 pounds (1 kilo) mince: 15.00
Wages: You won't get paid for the work that you do (holes in employment laws big enough to drive a truck through) or far below average for skilled labour elsewhere in the developed world.

Dental work? Forget it. Get em pulled for 200 a pop