Ok i see what you're saying and consider you're experience but i still disagree with you.
rent food and bills (80 quid a month) come to 400
I take it you meant a £80 wk? I won't be paying rent/bills and at the moment in london i'm living off £20 wk foodwise and have been since october.
my life insurance, loss of licence insurance, and mobile bill cost me another 100 quid a month
I don't have life insurance nor loss of license insurance and i pay £15 month mobile contract.
Car (petrol) costs me say 80 quid a month
Don't have a car as i mentioned before - i would be cycling, house is 1 mile from the airport.
60 quid off the credit card a month (trying to pay the bugger off!)
In absolutely no way would i ever even dream of getting a credit card so that counts that out.
then around 75 quid a week to use for my own use
What are you doing with it? I can understand going to the pub for a few but £75 week? Surely not? On saying that i can't disagree with you, maybe this is accurate?
most of the guys I know here don't want to have to live on a shoestring because it's a bloody hard slog!
When you're investing ridiculous amounts of money into a career you've always dreamed about i think it's a fairly reasonable compromise? Although It doesn't have to be if you go about it sensibly.
Having said that, if you can live off 250 quid a month, good luck to you...but it won't be easy and you won't have any margin for relaxing which as anyone who has done this will tell you is heartbreaking when your mates are out 'socialising' on friday after being in groundschool all week, or when they go for a trip somewhere and you have to decline...
Seems rather defeatist to me! I can imagine after groundschool financially i'll be ok to do what i want after the amount of hours i'll have been sat at my desk not spending money?
My point is sometimes you need to rid yourself of the flash and unnecessary things that burn holes in ur pockets to be able to do what you want. I for one am confident of sticking to a low budget as i have done it for the majority of this year and have hardly missed out on 'socializing'. I've travelled europe, spent very little, lived in london, spending very little and probably been out on average around 3 times a week!
I fully take into consideration what you have laid out and maybe i'm being unrealistic i can't be sure, as for arizona i have no idea!
Aside from this what extra costs am i likely to incur?
Thanks,
WQ.