From my experience helping out via my Offline Hive initiative: A family needs about $500 to live on, depending on their location. A restaurant meal in the Caracas area runs about $25, that's a salary right there. Things like medical costs typically go about $100-200 per visit. To leave Venezuela to Brazil its an average of $5000 and then their cost to live there is also $500 if properly settled. Meanwhile there is big money in Venezuela. We see it at events and conferences. A lot of wealthy people. But the disparity between the rich and the poor is massive. But a lot of money here, high end malls, some amazing places where you see them and you wonder who the hell employs such affluent custies.