Originally Posted By bloona I just found this in a magazine, I thought it was interesting...so Im gonna "SHARE"...lol The cost of living between countries, and how it compares; Price for 6 eggs,1 litre of milk,a sliced white loaf and two toilet rolls; UK...£4.93 USA...£6.40 AUSTRALIA...£5.58 CANADA....£4.51 Litre of Petrol; UK....90P USA...43P AUSTRALIA...54P CANADA....44P Cup of Coffee UK....£1.90 USA...£2.26 AUSTRALIA...£1.49 CANADA....£1.41 OK, there are others too, but I have to go tuck Kieran into bed (my son, not UKFAN....lol)
Originally Posted By Labuda I think your magazine is trying to make those in the UK feel better about inflated prices you pay. Figuring that a pound is about $1.91 US, that's saying we would pay about $12.25 for 6 eggs, a liter of milk, a loaf of bread and toilet paper. Half a dozen eggs for me is about $.99, a quart of milk (slightly more than a litre) is about $1.99, a sliced loaf of white bread is about $.75 and two rolls of toilet paper, well, we buy at CostCo, so I'll just figure $1.50 per roll if buying by the roll. Sooooooo, total that up and you see that we pay about $6.73 for that list, or about $3.5 pounds. Figuring 3.78 litres per gallon of gas, your article says we in the US pay about $.311 (or 1 pound 63) for a gallon of gas. IOn actuality, I paid $2.08 a gallon this morning - equivalent to 1.09 pounds. for an entire gallon, whereas at UK prices, we'd pay 3.4 pounds a gallon - ouch! And a cup of coffee costing $4.30? Not even Starbucks costs that much, I think, unless you get one of their special foo foo drinks. Soo, IOW, don't trust that magazine, girl!
Originally Posted By avromark Maybe they didn't translate between imperial and US gallons? A dozen eggs is 1.89 (large i'm assuming right?) milk is about 3.97- 4.27ish for 3.78 litres, or 3 bags of milk, how big is the roll of TP and what is the ply count? I can get cheap single ply or go for the double roll triple ply... Gas however is about 80c a litre right now Coffee in Beverly Hills or New York perhaps I pay 2 bucks for an extra large cap, a bit less then that for normal coffee.
Originally Posted By fkurucz At Sam's club in Loveland, CO: 48 eggs are about $2 A gallon of milk is about $2.20 2 loaves of sliced sandwich bread: $1.40 TP is $13 for 32 rolls
Originally Posted By debtee Not to deflate your lovely post Bloona but I have to agree I think the article got it wrong for Australia. Those prices in pounds are much higher then what we actually pay here, considering we would have to times that pound amount by three to get the AUD dollar amount and that's way over what we pay for those items! Sorry!
Originally Posted By bloona lol...is that what it works out at $4.30.....for a cup of coffee? Well I hate coffee so dont buy it, but Id say its about £1.50 where I live on average. So theyre not bad for our prices. It was a LOT more expensive at Betty's famous coffee shop in Harrogate when we went...WOW! it showed what kind of accomodation could be bought for £200,000 too, it was a one bedroom flat in a city centre here. Its about what our TINY house is worth, it has three bedrooms, a TINY bathroom, lounge, kitchen and we added a dining room. We paid £27,000 for it 19 years ago. Silly, silly, silly, no idea what new buyers are meant to buy now.
Originally Posted By u k fan <<<OK, there are others too, but I have to go tuck Kieran into bed (my son, not UKFAN....lol)>>> Bloona, I didn't read the end of that sentence and I've been sat here in my jammies waiting for you ever since. I even have a book picked out, oh well!!! ;(
