Meh.
I’m not saying it’s entirely inaccurate, but it’s not entirely accurate nor very useful either.
Take Italy for instance. Where you live will change your cost dramatically, and my family is certainly not spending that much money, or anything closer to that, every month. Even factoring in rent, you won’t get this figure probably anyway south of Rome. So location if a pretty major factor.
Same for the UK. If you live in London, expenses could be very well above what stated, but go anywhere else and the numbers go down dramatically.
Czech Republic seems also pretty high, compared to the cost of living, and Franche seems way to low, especially when it’s lower than Italy.
And I get that these numbers are the average, but it’s skewing the data way too much, probably because doing a simple average calculation will not give a correct representation of each country.
I did. I lived in Sicily for 25 years. Winters are mild, and a lot sunnier and drier than north Italy, let alone north Europe.
It is not unheard of to go for a stroll by the beach for Christmas.
I don’t know how many time you’ve been in southern Italy over the course of winter, but one year of bad weather is definitely not the same as “it’s always shit there”.
Saying that winters in southern Italy are cold just shows that you don’t know much about the actual local weather.