Yes, easily.
When I started my company a few years ago, I was living on this exact budget in Hamburg, which is quite similar to Berlin in living costs. As I was living in my own appartment, I had minimal housing costs (electricity, water, etc.). I also didn’t own a car at that time.
You can buy a bus ticket for the entire month, which will run considerably cheaper than buying individual tickets if you travel often, and eliminates the risk of forgetting to buy a ticket (which is costly if caught).
Train rides in Germany range from ridiculously cheap to ludicrously expensive, depending on the trip and when you book it and how flexible you are. I just checked the bahn.de website and could find several options for a round-trip Berlin-Bonn-Berlin for a little over 100 €.
Cooking at home can be a lot cheaper than eating out, however if you are cooking for only one person, then “Mittagstisch” (business lunch) can be quite competitively priced. I don’t much like to cook just for myself, so I was living on that budget and still eating out regularily.
Nightlife and parties depends a lot on where you go. There are both cheap and expensive options. You will want to watch this one as it has the highest chance to get expensive fast if you don’t.
The train tickets are around 25-35€ one way if you order them online, at least 1 month before departure.
Just use the right price portal.
https://ps.bahn.de/preissuche/preissuche/psc_start.post#stay
BUT these budget tickets are dedicated to a specific train connection at a specific time.
If you miss the train, the ticket can NOT be used for a different train, its NOT refundable (unless you use a flexi ticket, which is usually 25% more for the same connection).
Unless it was the fault of the train company (f.e. late arrival).
Also, coffee is around 0,80€-2€ per cup (normal, milk, sugar, not the hipster stuff).
Normal street food should be around 2-4€ if you dont eat right next to some tourist attraction.
Visit some small local restaurants instead of big chains.
Most food stalls provide much better quality and value for money than machdonalds, BK or kfc. Meaning, the sell actual food for around 50% of the price of processed “MC” plastic Stuff.
For around the same price as an overpriced, oversalted fat menu at MCD, you can get the comparatively expensive, but tasty indian street food or stuff from around the world.
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Sausages in bread are around 2-3€. Also, i ate like that when i visited different cities all over germany, and other parts of europe as a student.
Still eating the same today when traveling (except when i source local ingredients and cook them myself, which i really like).
not sure if other people only associate “expensive, upscale, long waiting time” with the term restaurant. I was reffering to smaller family restaurants and snack shop and stakeaways with seating.
Especially asian and chinese food (except indian) are really affordeable
In general, I would say, this is doable, however in the end it depends also a bit on your definition of “comfortable”. So here are just a few points to consider:
You can buy monthly train ticket for around 70 EUR (2 rings), much cheaper than weekly ticket but it depends on what route you will go on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Ringbahn
Train from Berlin to Bonn can be checked here https://www.bahn.com/en/view/index.shtml, get the ticket early for lower price. At the time I post this, it’s 124 EUR.
A monthly 4G SIM card costs less than 7 EUR on Amazon. You will get 2 GB of data. You can order it yourself and receive it at your friend’s home.
Aside from Turkish and Asian foods, McDonalds and KFC are also reasonable, from 5 to 10 EUR per meal.
I usually have short trip to Hamburg for business and I can say 1000 EUR is more than enough for a month.
Could be a bit short, depending on how much booze and partying you want.
That leaves €220 for the other points you mention. Museum tickets and nightlife can be expensive. No idea about the SIM card for a month.
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