Summary about cost of living in Istanbul, Turkey:
Restaurants | |
Range |
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Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant | 30.00 TL | |
Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course | 150.00 TL | |
McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo Meal) | 30.00 TL | |
Domestic Beer (1 pint draught) | 18.00 TL | |
Imported Beer (12 oz small bottle) | 25.00 TL | |
Cappuccino (regular) | 14.58 TL | |
Coke/Pepsi (12 oz small bottle) | 5.03 TL | |
Water (12 oz small bottle) | 2.11 TL | |
Markets | |
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Milk (regular), (1 gallon) | 23.01 TL | |
Loaf of Fresh White Bread (1 lb) | 2.83 TL | |
Rice (white), (1 lb) | 5.85 TL | |
Eggs (regular) (12) | 13.47 TL | |
Local Cheese (1 lb) | 21.01 TL | |
Chicken Fillets (1 lb) | 10.97 TL | |
Beef Round (1 lb) (or Equivalent Back Leg Red Meat) | 32.24 TL | |
Apples (1 lb) | 2.85 TL | |
Banana (1 lb) | 6.73 TL | |
Oranges (1 lb) | 3.47 TL | |
Tomato (1 lb) | 2.59 TL | |
Potato (1 lb) | 1.43 TL | |
Onion (1 lb) | 1.42 TL | |
Lettuce (1 head) | 4.81 TL | |
Water (1.5 liter bottle) | 2.37 TL | |
Bottle of Wine (Mid-Range) | 55.00 TL | |
Domestic Beer (0.5 liter bottle) | 14.18 TL | |
Imported Beer (12 oz small bottle) | 19.01 TL | |
Cigarettes 20 Pack (Marlboro) | 18.00 TL | |
Transportation | |
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One-way Ticket (Local Transport) | 3.50 TL | |
Monthly Pass (Regular Price) | 275.00 TL | |
Taxi Start (Normal Tariff) | 5.00 TL | |
Taxi 1 mile (Normal Tariff) | 5.63 TL | |
Taxi 1hour Waiting (Normal Tariff) | 30.00 TL | |
Gasoline (1 gallon) | 26.57 TL | |
Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (Or Equivalent New Car) | 240,000.00 TL | |
Toyota Corolla Sedan 1.6l 97kW Comfort (Or Equivalent New Car) | 209,804.07 TL | |
Utilities (Monthly) | |
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Basic (Electricity, Heating, Cooling, Water, Garbage) for 915 sq ft Apartment | 507.71 TL | |
1 min. of Prepaid Mobile Tariff Local (No Discounts or Plans) | 0.79 TL | |
Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL) | 119.31 TL | |
Sports And Leisure | |
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Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult | 190.65 TL | |
Tennis Court Rent (1 Hour on Weekend) | 123.49 TL | |
Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat | 30.00 TL | |
Childcare | |
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Preschool (or Kindergarten), Full Day, Private, Monthly for 1 Child | 2,122.73 TL | |
International Primary School, Yearly for 1 Child | 55,573.09 TL | |
Clothing And Shoes | |
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1 Pair of Jeans (Levis 501 Or Similar) | 268.07 TL | |
1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) | 189.62 TL | |
1 Pair of Nike Running Shoes (Mid-Range) | 532.81 TL | |
1 Pair of Men Leather Business Shoes | 384.59 TL | |
Rent Per Month | |
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Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre | 2,522.40 TL | |
Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre | 1,448.20 TL | |
Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre | 4,545.33 TL | |
Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre | 2,593.94 TL | |
Buy Apartment Price | |
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Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment in City Centre | 1,050.09 TL | |
Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre | 500.27 TL | |
Salaries And Financing | |
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Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) | 3,468.18 TL | |
Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentages (%), Yearly, for 20 Years Fixed-Rate | 15.12 |
Would you like to live and work in Istanbul?
Cost of Living in Esenyurt | 19.48 miles |
Cost of Living in Kocaeli | 62.63 miles |
Cost of Living in Bursa | 164.05 miles |
Cost of Living in Zonguldak | 210.49 miles |
Cost of Living in Eskisehir | 220.30 miles |
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Safeguard yourselves try to stay at home disinfect everything inside of your home and change your clothes you wore while out and wash them.
the prices which clearly wrong are :
-Domestic Beer (0.5 liter draught) 17.00 TL must be 25 TL,
-Loaf of Fresh White Bread (500g) 2.88 TL must be 4 TL
-Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) 3,388.78 TL must be 4000 TL
If you are a family, let's say 2 adults + 2 children, you should definitely earn at least 10000 Turkish lira a month to have a decent like BUT if you send the kids to a private school , 10000 will never be good enough.
You should come to live in Turkey, if you earn in EURO, POUND or USD currency. For example, if you earn 2000 EUR each month, that would create such a decent life in Istanbul.
In this beautiful city, these prices need to be updated frequently due to constantly changing inflation rates. Not like in stable countries.
What are your thoughts on the current situation in Turkey and the corona virus outbreak? Really no cases reported as of 08 March 2020? Just hard to believe.
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Secondly Istanbul is a beautiful place where anyone in the world must see before die, and it is safe as New York , London and other big capitals.
Thanks a million :)
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Rent for 3 bedroom apartmen -> The cost can be various up to your choices. If you want to live near sea side or good neighbourhoods you have to pay at least 2000 TL monthly. The cost can be reduced to 1400 TL. It is up to your choices.
There will be additional costs like heating price, apartment monthly fee, electricty, water and gas prices. So these total will be 500-600 TL average.
If you want to have cable channel or private tv box subscription, it will be 70-100 TL monthly.
If you want to have internet connection in your home, it will be 60 TL to 200 TL monthly as well.
Local beer ( EFES ) - > 15 TL
A meal in average restaurant for 2 people -> 80 TL
It goes like this.
As a married man with no children I have to earn at least 5000-7000 TL to live moderate life in Istanbul. If you have want to spend your spare time outside home and make acitivities you have to earn at least 10000 TL because current economy in Turkey is not good right now and inflation rate is very high. So every price is increasing day by day.
My girlfriend and I are thinking about moving to Turkey. She already has a job opportunity that pays around 4000 TRY and I have an online job that roughly translates to 2200 TRY.
Do you think around 6600 TRY per month would be sufficient for the two of us? We're really more of a laid back and stay at home on a friday kind of couple.
Thank you!
#parnia It's up to the university. If it's Boğaziçi or a technical university, you'll manage.
Heating let alone is around that amount in autumn/winter time. Plus the electricity bills can smash you if you're not used to live in half-lit rooms. Cost for electricity is around 150 TL for regular usage. Water is another thing. Our people don't bathe regularly so it is common to have water bills around 30 TL but if you're the one that pays attention to hygiene, it can climb up to 50 TL.
OTOH, safety became a real problem in most of the areas hence many start to carry arms illegally. You can easily get shot after picking up a small fight in day time.
About overall QOL -> it sucks. You either get used to slavery, trying to commute between you daily job and home and working in commercial areas day and night in exchange for a low-to-moderate life or you better win at lottery. No joke. Do not expect to have a healthy social life with sanity if you choose to live alone. Your best bet is to marry someone and try to take care of your lives together.
Istanbul WAS a nice city before it's totally gone out of control.
I'm writing those lines as a 36 years old male and a member of mid-class family, who has spent his whole life in Istanbul.
Its a real experience of a foreigner living in turkey.
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I think there isn’t still a tourism culture, that can be positive at times since prices looks uniformed and there aren’t many tourist traps (if not the cabbies, use Bitaksi/Uber instead).
Customer service should be improved as well as skills in foreign languages like English and Arab (not weird that in tourism a lot of workers are Syrians).
Do not just stay close in your circle of local friends, be curious about tourists and expats as for the most they’re educated mid-class people from wealthier countries and can represent a vector of better opportunities than the whole city of Istanbul.
Based on my consumption logs, my personal outcome has %50 increase in only 9 months in 2018.
In private schooll (college) - 20-45 K TurkishLira
In public schooll - Free
Where do you live in Istanbul? I can say some school in there.
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1 liter olive oil 28 TL
1 kg beans 4.75 TL
1 kg rice 9.90 TL
1 kg lentil 5.90 TL
1 kg tea 22 TL
500 gr local cheese 10 TL
1 kg beef meat 59 TL
1 kg chickhen wings 21 TL
500 gr sausages 20 TL
500 gr butter 17 TL
200 ml crema 5 TL
1 liter milk 3.75 TL
5 liter water 3.75 TL
McChickhen menu 11 TL
BigMac menu 14 TL
KFC box menu 21 TL
Midpoint-Bigchefs-Happymoons (midrange rest.chains) pizza / salads/ pasta 25-30 TL, chicken meals 25-35 TL, beef meals 40-60 TL, soft drinks 7-9 TL,
Starbucks tall filter coffee 6 TL
Starbucks tall latte 8.5 TL
H&M shorts 60-70 TL
Zara mens jeans 169 TL
Tommy Hilfiger polo shirt 299 TL
New balance sneakers 299- 399 TL
Giorgio Armani acqua di qio 100ml 290 TL
Massimo dutti leather shoes 450 TL
Mens barber hair cut 30 TL
Leading mobile phone operator 7gb +1000 minutes+1000 sms 65 TL
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Hi Guys,
First of all, it's Istanbul 20,000,000 people live here, so all the other huge cities in the world you can find cheapest and most expensive things in Istanbul.
So I try to give some global example,
Subway : day of sub 10 tl
McDonald : bigmac menu 14 tl
Public transportation: monthly 180 tl
Cola : 1 lt 2.45 tl
Adidas sneakers: 180 tl
Jeans : 130 150 well known brands
Meat : 1 kg 50 tl
Vegatable : around 2-5 tl / kg
Bread :1.25 tl
Rent starts 1000 tl to ....
Pizza : 15 25 for two people take away
Restaurant: 100 tl for 2
If you get more then 10,000 tl you can have a middle high standards
Some one posted this above. Let me tell you this is cheaper than Pakistan at least.
Ok a big Mac meal from McDonald's costs 33 liras
Fuel per month for a car average 583 liras
Good restaurant meal per person costs
125 liras
Water bottle 250 ml costs 1.6 liras
Etc
I am from India and I would be Moving to Izmir with family with 2 Kids . I would need your guidance as is any good availability online like good Rice , Wheat Flour or pulses etc.
This City tekirdag is cheap. Rent month 3 bedrooms with Elektrik, Gas, water is 600 Lira, = 160 Dollar, =130 euro. And when You go to Basar Market Not in the mornig, but in the afternoon 16:00-18:00 hours= 4:00 - 6:00 PM. You get all products half price. 1kg tomato 0.50 lira =0,15 Dollar, 0,12 Euro. Is really cheap when You go Basar . You can live her too good with 1500 Lira, = 390 Dollar, 320 dollar. When You have More Money , You can live the live of a King. This City tekirdag is a good City. People are friendly and crime is very very Low. Food prices Low. Gas prices high. Health Care price Low. 300 Lira month. = 80 Dollar, 65 euro month. Pollution is Low. Poperty prices Middle. 3 bedrooms in Winter buy price 50000 Lira. =15000 Dollar, 12000 euro. Sommer price 150000 Lira= 45000 dollar, 36000 Euro. Quality of Life is top. When You are poor You can Go to a volunteer doctor for poor people every City has such an doctor. IT cost You 0 Lira,0 Dollar, 0 euro. Taxi price Middle. Traffic in tekirdag is super easy, super Low. Everwhere is beach. Please contact me when You Wish Help or a Guide for tekirdag. Celloallo3003@gmail.com
I'm looking to bring one of my friends to Turkey to work from kosovo. I need to know what rent prices are for single rooms and what wages are per month for starbucks or any other customer related jobs. ??
to earn at least $1,000 to live as a person has a social life.But here the people are generally earning between $700-$900.If the family members are working,Surviving becomes more easy but its not mean living a good life.
Actress are happy here, footballers, doctors and highly educated people who erarns ver $3000 are very very happy.I am sure,Turkish people are not really happy what they are earning.A new graduated person is working at least 8 hours in factory or in a cafe under stress and earning minumum wage is 1404,06 TL at the beginning.If you are lucky you find a job with 10-12 hours And you can earn 1800 TL In city centre, you are able to pay your rent and bills with this stupid salary and eat the room walls.Its not a life.For a european Turist Turkey is anice place,if you come here to work,think more.
I went out to local pub/bar you pay 12 TL for half litre of beer,
Reasonable restaurant will set you back 50-60 TL pp for a meal.
Look out for sandwich stall's that sell "Balik Ekmek" which is local fish seasoned in a bread roll for around 5 TL, very popular with locals.
Even though I was a tourist, there are many great sights to see, Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, a cruise down the Bosphoros at night is an absolute must!
Despite all that i was acutely aware of the daily struggles local have, massively overpopulated, people desperate for every Lira they can get, much misery once you scratch under the surface.
In economic terms as a Westerner, local wealth is approximately half of Westerners.
Hope iv'e given helpful information :)
Istanbul is great to visit. Not to live unless you made lots of money abroad. No way to get money here unless you are an actor...