£1100/mo is about the minimum I could get by on in Edinburgh, yeah. It’s a room in a flat share with bills, £60/week on food, and £150/mo for “everything else”. It’s about as low as I think you could do. The person I replied to was talking about Nirvana in the 90s - when they were working part timeminimum wage jobs that’s roughly the life they’re living.

If you go to Liverpool (which significantly punches for musical history), it’s actually manageable on 20hr/weeek minimum wage.

You’re not talking sustaining a family or anything, but that life has been gone for 40 years at this point.