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With the amount, it might be possible to survive, not to decently live long-term.

Personally, the lowest I was able to achieve in practice was about 650€. Gotchas:

1. It was over 10 years ago

2. I had student discounts on housing, lunches, public transport etc.

I suppose I could still have squeezed that down if I really had to, fortunately I didn't.




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