I feel your pain. I've been living in Italy for three months, how can an apple cost $1.50!? People keep asking me if I've gone anywhere and I'm like, with what money?
something I've been meaning to ask: How much do THINGS cost there? Stupid question, I know; hard to phearse correctly. Back in the old days before Euros I noticed that THINGS in Italy cost about the same as in America when the money converstions were done. A shirt cost X. A camera cost X.xx. Services were different, of course, and American import foods were very different (Cokes or Big Macs or Whoppers). Train rides were dirt cheap compared to the cost of gasoline (in 1996 it sold for $2 or $3 per Liter - less than a quart). Now that the Euro is so much stronger than the US Dollar it is not like that. But what is it like with the Aus Dollar? How does the cost of THINGS stack up these days?
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I feel your pain. I've been living in Italy for three months, how can an apple cost $1.50!?
People keep asking me if I've gone anywhere and I'm like, with what money?
something I've been meaning to ask: How much do THINGS cost there? Stupid question, I know; hard to phearse correctly. Back in the old days before Euros I noticed that THINGS in Italy cost about the same as in America when the money converstions were done. A shirt cost X. A camera cost X.xx. Services were different, of course, and American import foods were very different (Cokes or Big Macs or Whoppers). Train rides were dirt cheap compared to the cost of gasoline (in 1996 it sold for $2 or $3 per Liter - less than a quart). Now that the Euro is so much stronger than the US Dollar it is not like that. But what is it like with the Aus Dollar? How does the cost of THINGS stack up these days?
Mike
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