Mid sized city, your own apartment: $500 + $75 Utilities Food (mostly home cooking or very cheap restaurants): $75-150 Transportation: (You will need a car unless you live in a big, big city) $50 buses and such That's the bare minimums, but doesn't include healthcare, entertainment, owning/renting a car, and your apartment rent can be much higher in bigger cities or nicer areas. All these prices are per month, and are just my guess from living in the states most of my life.

1 month - 700-1000 $ My friend told me. If you want to have a good food and tenant comfortable flat. It may be not truth. :)

Wow, Robert, I haven't paid $500 for rent since 1999! :)

It depends on whether you are an international student on a scholarship, on exchange and staying with a family or whether you have a Green card to work there.

So much money, I think !