Rent: $2,200 for a 2 Bedroom Luxery Apartment with Garage

utilities: $250 per month including water, electricity and heating

food: $1,500 per month for family of 3

healthcare: $600 per month for private healthcare or Free if use public healthcare. For us public healthcare in Hungary is not an option.

For 2200 USD you can rent a big (250-300m2) house with garden and pool in a luxury district, not only an apartment with 2 bedrooms. Check the prices on this site: ingatlan.com - Az ingatlanhirdet�si k�zpont

1500USD for food?!
Man, what do you eat, only lobster with tfruffle? And do you drink only Dom Perignon?
If a family with one child go to eat always to a (good) restaurant, and only to restaurant!, it costs approx. 550-600 USD monthly...

Rent: usually 300 - 500 EUR/month (average flat with living room + 2 bedrooms in downtown)

Utilities: cableTV 20EUR;, internet from20 to35EUR;, heating 90EUR;, electricity 35EUR;, water 30EUR;, condominium fee 40-50EUR;

Transport: 1EUR;/single ticket, valid for one uninterrupted trip without change.
Season ticket (passes):

Monthly pass : 30EUR;
Pass for two weeks : 20EUR;
One-day travel card: 5EUR;
You can buy single tickets of the 10 piece discount coupon book: 8,5EUR;
The penalty is very high if you do not have ticket! 40EUR;.

Parking with car:
on the street 0,75EUR;/hour, parking passes in the downtown approx. 100EUR;/month

Food: 130 - 200EUR; / month, depend on what you need or like

In my opinion the living in Budapest is expensive, for an average hungarian salary (330-350EUR;/month)

mortgage: 100k HUF/month, Rent 80-150k
monthly pass: 10k HUF
Power bill: 20-22K HUF/m
Gas bill: 350-450 k HUF /year
Food: 100-200K/month for a family
Car: same ay elsewhere
Income tax and social security: 30-40% of gross salary
Internet,+TV+ Phone: 10K/month
Monthly cell phone bill: 7-25K/month

Rent (133 euro per month) for one room in a two-room flat. That is a really good area at Buda side, called Rózsadomb, not so far from the city. It was a luck. You have to be careful, because for foreign people the rent is much more expensive. You should ask hungaian friends to help you. English advertisement are so expensive....

Utiities: electricity for the full flat (10 euro per month)
heating in winter for the full flat(50 euro per month)
internet (10 euro per month for the full flat)

Food: If you cook yourself, and you buy in the nig markets and in the Tesco, it is cheap (65 euro per month)

Unfortunately, I am a student with free housing and health care.

I have not been keeping track of the cost of my remaining expenses separately, but I guess that it is about 350USD for food, sundries, recreation, and study supplies (paper, pens, notebooks, etc.), and things for organizing my living space (which is already furnished). I eat every meal either at one of the student cafeterias or at a local restaurant.

Food seems very inexpensive here when I compare it to the San Francisco Bay Area where I used to live (Belmont, California, USA). A full meal at the student cafeteria is roughly 4USD, at a local cafeteria 7USD, at a moderately priced restaurant 8 - 10 USD. Groceries are very inexpensive, maybe half of the cost in California for most items.