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How much would it cost to travel around Europe?

How much would it cost to travel around in Europe for a year?

  • My husband and I are wanting to save up our money for a year or two, sell most everything we own (and put the important things in storage) and travel around Europe for a year. We're wanting to stay a few months in each country - thinking maybe Amsterdam, France, Italy, and Germany. Maybe three months in each place. We're wanting to get a really cheap apartment in each place and try to find jobs while we're there. So just wondering how much y'all think it would cost total? I know it will be massively expensive. Just a guess off the tops of your heads though?

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    Start with checking housesitting.com also couchsurfing (as a short term possibility thing) also start checking sites such as apartments for rent in London or Berlin or Rome.....still, figure about 1,000 euros per month for something half decent, plus local transport (metro, bus, train cards) plus all the rest of it (food, entertainment etc) at the very least plan 50 euros per day and all together you are about at 30,000 euros for the year (plus, of course, you purchased health insurance before leaving for your trip, so that would be about 40,000 USD for a year, I would say.

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You can't do so legally, any more than an EU citizen can stay in the USA for a year legally - much less work. You need a residence visa and/or a work visa for that. US citizens can visit the Schengen zone part of the EU for 90 days out of 180. The UK is not part of the zone in question so you > could < spend 89 days in the zone, then 89 days in the UK, etc. However, you will be questioned at Immigration regarding how you will support yourself and failing to provide a satisfactory answer (that DOESN'T include "working" without a work visa) may result in you being refused entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement The easiest way to stay in Europe for a long period is to go to school on a student visa. Having a student visa gives you most of the rights of being a Resident, and renting an apartment for a year will almost certainly be less expensive than renting three months at a time in some of the world's most expensive countries (Netherlands, France, Italy, and Germany). If you don't want to attend school look for international schools where you could volunteer or work for very little pay.

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That depends on...if you set focal points, choose something like a a headquarter in a certain country, you can get pretty offers of housing / living. If you should decide to move around a lot your costs of transport will explode. I suppose you to be an open minded person, thus you wont depend all the time on "touristic" offers, like hotel, restaurant etc. May be you can find some kind of "arrangements" to a native person / group, with reciprocal benefits...living for cleaning / cutting the lawn for eating or something like this...then you will be able to decrease your costs a lot... The results of the german jury...costs low level about 15 until 20 Euro per head and day, moderate about 30 - 50, more comfortable and far beyond up to 100...

You can't just "get a job" in another country. If you want to work in one that is low wage, dangerous, dirty, and maybe illegal, then you might find one, but you would be competing with other illegal immigrants for those jobs.

Roger K

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