Healthcare costs in the USA are out of control – it’s something our nation discusses constantly – and I am joining the conversation by sharing real figures from my annual medical charges as a chronically ill person. And I’m starting with an outrageous one. My family’s total healthcare cost in 2018 was $73,123. Our portion of that bill was $20,018. The total cost is much higher than the median US salary (which sits around $44,500). It’s approximately half the cost of […]
Category: Money
One Year Without a Vehicle.
This is the second post in the blog series One Year Without. See all of the posts here. We gave up our habit of driving daily when we moved to Germany without a vehicle. For the past year we’ve either walked, used public transport, or used a rental car. In fact, we only spent 19 days driving over the last year. It was a pretty big life change for us. So what was it like? The planning stage. The first step […]
Our Cost of Living in Germany Compared to the USA.
I’ve been asked a few times how much it costs to live in Germany compared to America. That’s a hard question for me to answer completely because we don’t pay for housing or utilities in Germany nor did we pay for them in the USA after college. (Mr. Meena’s company has provided us with free housing for two and a half years.) But I have kept an extremely detailed budget since we’ve been married, so there are some comparisons that […]