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Location: Malta
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Heh, ok - I own a house, which is good - but I bought it some 15 years ago - I'd never be able to afford it today. It is an inverstment, though. Life, however, is becoming horribly expensive, and last time I visited the UK I found the essentials to cost about as much as here (luxuries are cheaper there!). As for future prospects - good grief, are there any here? A post at Univ is reasonably safe, but the general outlook is forbidding. Not to mention the fact that a very large number of engineers (my profession) are all employed by one foreign owned company. They've started reducing their local production. If what they call the 'research'ection folds, we'd have generations of students without a job.  And we're still getting more and more entries for the course, beyond our infrastructure, just to make matters worse.
Many docs are leaving the island - their wages are miserly, and they easily earn 4x as much or more abroad. Little or no investment is made in research or innovation, and the only big plans are an inverstment in the pharmaceutical industry (nothing too concrete, either) and a new golf course, just to wreck whats left of our natural environment. 
Oh well, sorry, I'm off topic now.
Magnus, I wish you the best of luck, but don't be too harsh on your country.
Oh - to answer your questions - a house and rent could be expensive - a small flat in an ordinary sort of location could easily cost close to 50,000 Euros. A small car could cost 13,000 Euros. Public transport is cheap, but can be terribley inefficient. My wife and I pay around 350 Euros on foodstuffs, detergents each month (ok, lots of cat food too!) Water and electricity bills cost about half as much, but we have a gas cooker, not an electric one - although we also use a microwave oven; and water heating is unnecessary over the summer months. An ADSL network connection can cost 500Euros a year; a reasonably good desktop 1000Euros. Telephone bills are more difficult to compute, as I only keep poor track of mobile phone calls!
Someone in your profession could gain anything between 14,000 to 23,000 Euros a year, depending on experience (and the employer!), but more might be had , depending on the nature of work done. You could easily earn more than I do - lecturers have notoriously low wages.
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