total: $315

Notes: The trash and water are not billed monthly, so that’s what it would be if it were monthly. The electric is an average over the last year. The phone/cable/internet is new – we just switched to FiOS. it cut the bills there a lot, not so much cable and internet, which are about the same, but the phone bill dropped dramatically.

(Cable & water/sewer/trash are included in homeowner’s assc fees)

I think we have proof that Los Angeles is indeed much more expensive than other parts of the country.

We live in the South, our house is nearly 50 years old, and we are also cooling 2,300 square feet. Given that, I don’t think our electric bills are that bad. They could be a lot worse.

I’m at 0$ all the way across with about 50$/month for cell phone. (All inclusive studio apt!) But I have to go into the bathroom to get wireless internet.

Phone: ~$65, about $15 of which gets reimbursed sometimes by my company.
Internet: $32 (DSL)
Cell: $35 with company discount
Water/Sewer: ~$20 (paid quarterly, the minimum charge is $60 and I rarely use enough to go above the minimum)
Trash: ~$4 (taken to the dump, $1 for 36 pounds, rounded up to the nearest half dollar)

No Cable. The oil bill in the winter is so large I’ve been afraid to add it all up. I use about $40/year in gas for the dryer and stove.

phone(cell): $47
water/sewer/elect: $44
dsl: $43
gas: $32

The gas, dsl, and w/s/e are split two ways ($59 each). The gas goes up significantly in the winter, but since we don’t use AC, the electric doesn’t fluctuate too much, even in the middle of the summer.

Phone: $22 land / $75 cells
Gas & Elec: $30
Water: None
Cable: $75
Internet: FREE

When my wife and I were looking for a new place last year as we downsized (I went back to school, she got a new job), my main goal was to get an apartment that paid for our heat as I was sick of paying $230 to heat half a house. As a bonus, or because of it, our new place sits atop a coffee house that has free, no holds barred Wi-Fi. As an added bonus bonus, the internet is on all the time and speeds are very good. And as an added bonus bonus bonus, it’s non-smoking and closes by 6p each night.

If it were up to me, we wouldn’t have the cable (digital) or the land line (Tivo dial up). I bring this up to my wife every chance I get.

Electric/gas: ~$105
Water: ~$45
Phone: $50 (2 cell phones, no land line)
Cable (digital, HDTV, DVR) / Internet (cable): $95

Total: $295. Our peak is in the winter, when the gas bill goes sky high for heating. It can raise our bill another $100.

Elec: $91
Gas: 34
Water: 32 (trash/sewer is included)
Phone: 34 (mostly fixed)
Internet: 60 (fixed)

This is a, 1,800 sqft house in the a hot climate.