If a young man earns 3,000 or 4,000 riyals per month, how can he afford the cost of living when he might be spending around 200 or 300 riyals per day?"[3] Seventy-seven percent of youth from the east and seventy-one percent of youth from the south compared to thirty-eight percent of youth that resided in the center that participated in the 2014 survey cited high cost of living as a top concern.[3]