They moved abroad hoping to save money — here’s what they found out

Sipping a acold pint of brew successful Budapest tin outgo $2.

Dinner for 2 successful a pub successful Prague? About $22.

And a month's rental for a sleek workplace flat successful the halfway of the Portuguese metropolis of Porto tin acceptable you backmost $650.

With these sorts of surviving costs, it's nary astonishment that galore are tempted to determination overseas.

Needless to say, that's not ever the lawsuit — sometimes moving overseas is much expensive. CNBC Travel speaks to radical with antithetic experiences.

Originally from Romania, Irina Papuc is simply a co-founder of the integer selling bureau Galactic Fed. She said she's traveled to much than 40 countries arsenic a "digital nomad" portion increasing the business.

She is capable to prevention wealth due to the fact that she has embraced a benignant of question that minimizes spending portion connected the road, she said.

"I similar to take a fewer high-quality experiences alternatively of perpetually moving around. Slow travel, namely spending much clip successful 1 place, allows you to prevention a ton of money, due to the fact that it's usually the transport (plane tickets) that adust retired the slope account."

She adds that eating section food, embracing "couchsurfing" — which she describes arsenic "the champion mode to conscionable section radical and not wage immoderate rent astatine the aforesaid time" — ditching fancy co-working spaces and hitchhiking are each large ways to prevention money.

As for which places connection the champion value, she cites Nepal, Thailand and Taiwan.

"On average, erstwhile trekking successful Nepal, I spent astir 5 dollars a day, including each nutrient and accommodation," she said.

Born and raised successful the United Kingdom, Courteney Richardson-Hicks present lives arsenic a integer nomad successful Europe.

"I've really managed to prevention rather a batch by traveling, surely much than if I lived successful the U.K.," the selling contented strategist said.

She told CNBC astir a broadside gig she discovered that comes with a escaped spot to stay: pet-sitting.

"This is 1 of my favourite ways to question arsenic I get to walk clip with animals," she said. "My lone costs for that period are food, transport and immoderate other activities I privation to do. For example, I stayed successful a beauteous villa successful Cyprus for 7 weeks looking aft cats."

She said her nomadic manner allows her to prevention astatine slightest fractional her salary.

"If I compared it to London, I would astir apt beryllium paying the aforesaid for a country successful a level stock arsenic I did for a full one-bedroom flat with oversea presumption successful Madeira, for example," she said.

Her proposal for radical who privation to determination overseas and prevention money? Try Poland.

"Of the places I've been successful Europe, 1 of the champion worth for day-to-day expenses was Poland," she said. "The accommodation and eating retired was truly bully worth for money."

"Also, Poland is truly beautiful, and the radical are truthful benignant and friendly."

Taryn Elledge-Penner and Martin Penner, of the boutique question bureau Quartier Collective, presently unrecorded successful Bali with their 3 children. The household has lived successful astir 20 countries since archetypal hitting the roadworthy successful 2018, said Penner.

"Is it imaginable to prevention wealth compared to the U.S.? Absolutely, for sure," helium said. "But successful the past 18 months we've noticed a terms summation successful short-term rental options."

Despite that, helium said his household tin inactive prevention due to the fact that they aren't pressed for time: "We're fortunate to person clip arsenic a assets and tin beryllium flexible with wherever and erstwhile we go."

Elledge-Penner advises those who privation to prevention wealth to debar Europe successful the summertime. Instead, spell successful the enarthrosis oregon off-seasons, she said.

Penner besides pointed retired that immoderate things are much costly than backmost home. "There are a batch of things you don't wage erstwhile connected the road, but past we walk $15k a twelvemonth connected flights," a outgo helium said they wouldn't carnivore backmost successful Seattle, helium said.

For those who similar a "turnkey" attack to Bali, Boundless Life is launching its archetypal programme determination successful July, said the company's caput of request generation, Elodie Ferchaud.

The institution has six-week and three-month programs that galore families harvester to enactment overseas for longer periods, she said.

The three-month programme costs astir 2,100 to 3,500 euros ($2,214 to $3,690) a period for a furnished home, including utilities and play cleaning. Schooling costs 1,500 euros per kid per month, and assemblage workspaces tally an other 425 euros per month.

All told, fees tin tally northbound of $8,000 per period for a mates with 2 kids, the institution said. Boundless Life besides runs programs successful Greece, Italy and Portugal.

American Erin White has had a antithetic experience.

White lives successful Marylebone successful cardinal London, wherever she works arsenic a vice president for income show astatine the California-based HydraFacial company.

She moved to London from Connecticut to judge a caller relation astatine the company, truthful her determination to determination overseas "was some a vocation and a fiscal one."

But has she saved money?

"Not astatine all! It is overmuch much costly to unrecorded successful London," she said.

"Rents and the spot ladder are ace expensive. You don't person the enactment of a 30-year fixed owe present — they are much similar our ARM mortgages. I rent a basement 2-bed, 2-bath and it's implicit 3,500 British pounds ($4,140) a month, positive I wage the assembly taxes, a TV tax" and more, she said.

She adds that adjacent though she lives successful London, "You are benignant of a tourer too, truthful you privation to instrumentality vantage of things similar visiting different countries connected the play and holidays."

But the rent isn't the disbursal that has amazed her the most, White said.

"For me, it's the outgo of idiosyncratic attraction present ... nails, hair, waxing, each the things a pistillate needs to bash are sometimes 2 to 3 times much than what I paid successful the U.S."

Her workaround? "I ever marque definite to instrumentality vantage of these services erstwhile I'm backmost successful the States."