Overthinking the apocalypse

I was describing to someone the way that charming little European cafés are absolutely the ideal environment for me to write my thesis (as long as I leave cellphones and other devices home), and how I was getting a hell lot of text written, until I budgeted and realised the degree to which my family very much cannot afford me going every other day to charming little European cafés. And how silly I feel at my inability to replicate, at home or in public libraries or parks or anywhere else, the whatever-it-is that makes the café environment work so well for me. There's too many details that I don't feel like should matter, but end up mattering anyway. Like the fact that most libraries here close way too early for someone with a dayjob, weekends inclusive, and the ones that don't are far away and take an hour or more to reach, or are too cold or generally insufficiently cozy, or the absence of food and a bathroom in public spaces, or even the absence of the low ambient noise of people talking and background music, which I find to be the ideal stimulant. Or the fact that there's many different cafés, which means I can go to new places when one starts getting overly familiar—novelty, too, improves concentration for me. Like I don't want to depend on minutiae like that to write, it feels spoiled and a bit ridiculous. But the fact of the matter is, I write a lot more at cafés than anywhere else I've tried to write in, my master's only ever got done over overpriced lattes, and attempts to reverse-engineer or reproduce this effect have been irritatingly unsuccessful.

And the person said, “if I could I'd just finance charming little European cafés for you and call it a day”. Which made me think: how much does it cost to use charming little European cafés as a workspace? Like I often joke that an overpriced latte is the price I pay for a workroom with the right type of interior décor, but if you literally treat it as that, how much are you paying for said workroom. I've heard of many writers who will book a hotel vacation to write and I think that would work for me just great too, but it's prohibitively expensive; take that as a ceiling—a bed in a 6-people room in a hostel in the off-season here goes for some 30€, you're not finding a hotel for less, so as long as I'm spending less than 30€/day I'm spending less than writers who write in hotel vacations.

One could conceivably order a single 2.5€ expresso and stay at the café all afternoon, but for nutrition and comfort, let's suppose you get a medium cappuccino or a small kettle of hōjicha etc. for ~5.5€. I doubt I could write literally every day, let's say 4×/week as an optimistic estimate. That would make the cost of my lavish WeWork indulgence come to total of ~90€/month. Round it up to 100€ to have cake or a croissant a couple times: that's not something I can afford right now, but assuming my finances improve medium term, is a 100€/mo workspace really too expensive to get done my translation of Kaneko Fumiko's complete poetical oeuvre, in a method that I know for a fact works for me?