[lavidaloca]

1) Convert your money. You will lose dollars. 2000 dollars a month is 65 dollars a day more or less. As was said earlier if american dollars you lose 10%. Now your at 60 dollars more or less. Pay your rent. Daily expect 20+ per day in rent in Havana. Then you've got your food? Are you going to go hunt down the food you want to eat to cook it? Good luck with that. If your a vegetarian maybe. so we are probably at 25 dollars of your 60 on housing. In Cuba you pay for everything for everyone. Expect your date to bring her friends out on your tab. Are you going to eat in peso nacional restaurants. I hope you have a strong stomach. if your not, good meals will run 5 cuc or more per person. What about your cover for your date and her friends. Often this is 5 CUC each or more. Okay, maybe your a real gamer and going to go to the club single. How do the girls there have the money to go their. A lot of them by means you can imagine. How are you going to move around. Are you really going to take the bus everywhere. Goodluck getting quality doing that. Plus the buses don't show up half the time. Taxi's may be cheap by North American standards but what are you gonna do when you wanna go to La Cecilia from Centro Havana to Miramar and the taxi says 10+ dollars. Thats 20 dollars return. Then you meet someone and they don't want to stay at your place they want to stay at an illegal place. There goes another 20 dollars. It adds up fast.