-Rent: 600 a month, for a three-bedroom apartment in a good but not fancy neighborhood (Parque Rodo). One-bedroom apartments are at around 300 a month in similar neighborhood. Renters (not owners) have to pay apartment expenses which are another 100 dolars per month for 3bdr and 50 for 1bdr and it only includes water and the use of the common spaces.

-Utilities: roughly 300 a month, electricity and gas for a two member family.

-Transportation: gas is very expensive, a normal car would imply paying 300 dollars a month just to drive inside Montevideo. Bus tickets are cheap 15 pesos wich is 68 cents. Frequency are good but not great. They are safe.

-Food: As usual, it is variable depending on how much you eat out versus how much you eat in. In a family of two we spend 100 a week at the supermarket. Sorry no idea about eating out as it is so variable but a normal restaurant would cost 15 dollars per person for a complete meal. Let's say 500/month for food. A cook is the cheap part of the equation. A cleaning lady that can cook (and buy the groceries and not charge you extra for it) would cost 4 dollars the hour (social security included). For 200 dollars a month you can hava a cleaning lady and cook that can do all the house work.

-Health: "insurance" in a hospital to be attended whenever you need costs 70 dollars per month. Every time you actually see a doctor or use the hospital facilities you have to pay around 4 dollars. But a big hospital intervention would cost you the same 4 dollars or just a little higher. No wander the health system is in bankrupt also in Uruguay.