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Reply #50 - May 5^th, 2008 at 8:44am

Lets see prices in US$:

rent $250 a month (nice sized 2 bedroom apt.)
Gas $25 a month
Electric $20 a month
Water $5 a month
Internet $80 a month
Cell Phone about $1 a day
Bus and Trolley either $60 a Month or $5 a day
Cigarettes $2 a pack
Food $3-7 a day (i don't cook so thats restaurants, usually shrimp breakfast and steak dinner)
Gummi Bears $50 month approx

Total for month about $700

I have to work about 6 days a month, Come to think of it maybe I should raise my rates. If I charged what others do, I could knock that down to 3 1/2 or 4 days a month

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Re: How much do you pay for...............
Reply #51 - May 5^th, 2008 at 9:20am

tookthatname wrote on May 5^th, 2008 at 8:44am:

Lets see prices in US$:

rent $250 a month (nice sized 2 bedroom apt.)
Gas $25 a month
Electric $20 a month
Water $5 a month
Internet $80 a month
Cell Phone about $1 a day
Bus and Trolley either $60 a Month or $5 a day
Cigarettes $2 a pack
Food $3-7 a day (i don't cook so thats restaurants, usually shrimp breakfast and steak dinner)
Gummi Bears $50 month approx

Total for month about $700

I have to work about 6 days a month, Come to think of it maybe I should raise my rates. If I charged what others do, I could knock that down to 3 1/2 or 4 days a month

That's it then. I'm moving to wherever YOU live.

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Re: How much do you pay for...............
Reply #52 - May 5^th, 2008 at 9:25am

GotToRollMe wrote on May 5^th, 2008 at 9:20am:

tookthatname wrote on May 5^th, 2008 at 8:44am:

Lets see prices in US$:

rent $250 a month (nice sized 2 bedroom apt.)
Gas $25 a month
Electric $20 a month
Water $5 a month
Internet $80 a month
Cell Phone about $1 a day
Bus and Trolley either $60 a Month or $5 a day
Cigarettes $2 a pack
Food $3-7 a day (i don't cook so thats restaurants, usually shrimp breakfast and steak dinner)
Gummi Bears $50 month approx

Total for month about $700

I have to work about 6 days a month, Come to think of it maybe I should raise my rates. If I charged what others do, I could knock that down to 3 1/2 or 4 days a month

That's it then. I'm moving to wherever YOU live.

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Re: How much do you pay for...............
Reply #53 - May 5^th, 2008 at 10:25am

GotToRollMe wrote on May 5^th, 2008 at 9:20am:

tookthatname wrote on May 5^th, 2008 at 8:44am:

Lets see prices in US$:

rent $250 a month (nice sized 2 bedroom apt.)
Gas $25 a month
Electric $20 a month
Water $5 a month
Internet $80 a month
Cell Phone about $1 a day
Bus and Trolley either $60 a Month or $5 a day
Cigarettes $2 a pack
Food $3-7 a day (i don't cook so thats restaurants, usually shrimp breakfast and steak dinner)
Gummi Bears $50 month approx

Total for month about $700

I have to work about 6 days a month, Come to think of it maybe I should raise my rates. If I charged what others do, I could knock that down to 3 1/2 or 4 days a month

That's it then. I'm moving to wherever YOU live.

Holy shit... no kidding. Our monthly in SF is about $5k, for a family of four. Rent, groceries, energy....

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tookthatname Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 70	Re: How much do you pay for............... Reply #54 - May 5^th, 2008 at 10:55am thats upper middle class too. nice neighborhood. within 2 blocks of 4 star hotel, major mall, museums, Imax, city hall, many nice restaurants and stores etc. I work in san diego, live in Tijuana, so i make comparable to SF wages, but the cost of living is much cheaper here
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Reply #55 - May 5^th, 2008 at 11:35am

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Gazza wrote on May 4^th, 2008 at 7:11pm:

cabledogg2 wrote on May 3^rd, 2008 at 4:29pm:

With all the talk about the U.S. economy tanking and gas / food / electric / etc prices on the increase i was wondering? How much are ROers outside the states paying for Gas , Milk , Electricity.....etc. Are we americans just a bunch of whiners? I live outside of Wash D.C. and gas in my area for low grade is $3.71 a gallon , a gallon of milk is $3.69 , it costs me roughly $220.00 a month to power and heat/cool my home. Cable tv/ phone/ high speed internet run me about $120.00 a month...What say you? As Bill Oreilly would say................

Petrol in the UK has just topped £5 a gallon for the first time, I believe...so thats about $10.

I think our quarterly electric bill is about £120. Broadband internet is about £80 per quarter and the home phone bill is about £17 a month. Satellite TV can be anything up to about £45 a month, depending on whether you get the movie and sports channels. The TV licence, which is compulsory if you own a TV set, is about £140 a year. Then we have other household taxes like rates/council tax, depending on where you live, the amount of which depends on the size of your home. This is several hundred pounds a year at least

Wages are generally a bit behind what theyd be in the US so I reckon you guys arent doing too badly.

are you saying one must pay 2-3 hundred bucks a year just to have a tv? thats insane. why?

The BBC doesnt allow advertising, so its funded by a licence fee. The anomaly is that whilst there are 5 'terrestrial' TV stations in the UK and the two BBC channels (BBC1 and BBC2) are the only commercial free ones (their radio stations are commercial free too as are their satellite TV stations), you still have to buy a licence fee for a TV. Its not like you can argue that a) you only watch satellite TV or b) you dont watch the BBC channels. The other three terrestrial Tv channels - ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 are all funded by advertising.

Satellite TV, under the Sky package, is funded by advertising and subscription.

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Reply #56 - May 5^th, 2008 at 11:36am

tookthatname wrote on May 5^th, 2008 at 10:55am:

thats upper middle class too. nice neighborhood. within 2 blocks of 4 star hotel, major mall, museums, Imax, city hall, many nice restaurants and stores etc.

I work in san diego, live in Tijuana, so i make comparable to SF wages, but the cost of living is much cheaper here

We're leaving here... So we can actually live like our income. It's so insane!!! The thing is, even if we made more money and could live like the people making really good high 6 or low 7 digits, they're assholes!!! I don't even want to be around them... I'd rather live with the Jesus worshippers and people who have pics of Rumfeld in their homes than these hipster and yuppie fucks anymore!!!

I like SD. Only been there for a short time, but I liked the feel, but the people seemed a bit out of it, at least the younger folks I talked too.

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Joey I Have No Life! Online Posts: 20,258 Omaha , NE Gender:	Re: How much do you pay for............... Reply #57 - May 5^th, 2008 at 11:47am " I like SD. Only been there for a short time, but I liked the feel, but the people seemed a bit out of it, at least the younger folks I talked too " Poi ........................... I have tremendous anal leakage today . TREMENDOUS . J.'Lo ! ™
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Reply #58 - May 5^th, 2008 at 11:51am

I left SF for that reason 10-12 years ago. came down to SD and the only thing really better was the weather. People pretty much suck. after a few years I started walking across the boarder and spending time in Tijuana. Great blue collar town, great people, great food, BEAUTIFUL women, what more could you want?

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tookthatname Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 70	Re: How much do you pay for............... Reply #60 - May 5^th, 2008 at 12:12pm Pdog wrote on May 5^th, 2008 at 11:54am: Joey wrote on May 5^th, 2008 at 11:47am: I have tremendous anal leakage today . Wipe the jizz of your ass and stop complaining!!!! talk about a gun backfiring
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Re: How much do you pay for...............
Reply #61 - May 5^th, 2008 at 1:05pm

Netherlands, averages all converted to US$ and volumes (american gallon is 3.8 liter):

- gasoline $9.30 /gallon (that's why most of us here don't drive those a-social SUV's Grin

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- elec/gas/water: $290 /month
- milk $4.35 /gallon
- cable/dsl about $60 (but slowest speeds starting from $30 and fastest about $90), although I have fiber with tv/radio, telephone and internet (50Mbit up and down) for $77 one package
- cigarets $6.30 a pack on average but rising
- health insurance (mandatory by law) $140 to start with the lowest basic package and up to $70 added for additional care insurance (teeth etc) /month

- average income: 33K$ /year I think not sure

- complete smoking ban for bars/restaurants/coffe shops (following years earlier bans in work places, hospitals and public buildings): will be in place from July 1st, 2008...

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Joey I Have No Life! Online Posts: 20,258 Omaha , NE Gender:	Re: How much do you pay for............... Reply #63 - May 5^th, 2008 at 4:16pm " Wipe the jizz of ( sic ) your ass and stop complaining!!!! "
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robpop Rocks Off Regular Offline My name is called disturbance! Posts: 1,881 City of Champions Gender:	Re: How much do you pay for............... Reply #64 - May 5^th, 2008 at 4:26pm Ah baloney. Never having kids, being married, or even having a girlfriend, hell the price of gas would have no impact on you either, regardless of your income. It would just iratate you.
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Joey I Have No Life! Online Posts: 20,258 Omaha , NE Gender:	Re: How much do you pay for............... Reply #65 - May 5^th, 2008 at 4:28pm " It would just iratate you "
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fireontheplatter Ex Member	Re: How much do you pay for............... Reply #66 - May 5^th, 2008 at 5:28pm today i found the deal of the century [don't laugh pdog] a magnum of malt beer for $1.88. usd that is. cheap....right? everybody say ow
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fireontheplatter Ex Member	Re: How much do you pay for............... Reply #67 - May 5^th, 2008 at 5:39pm i just want to say i think this is one of the most interesting threads to come about in awhile. i mean angie says she has to pay mandatory health insurance up in the neatherlands. that the most ridiculous thing i have heard all day.
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Some Guy Resident Cretin Offline Posts: 15,828 Atlanta Gender:	Re: How much do you pay for............... Reply #68 - May 5^th, 2008 at 6:57pm must be cinco de mayo because my local mexican joint was slammed, all kinds of gringos up in there.
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tookthatname Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 70	Re: How much do you pay for............... Reply #71 - May 5^th, 2008 at 7:44pm yeah funny thing is all the parades, partys, getting drunk is almost all in the US or stupid american tourists down here. pretty much just another day in Tijuana. I do take the day off though, hhhmmm guess that really does make it just another day. hahahha
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Reply #72 - May 5^th, 2008 at 10:47pm

Some Guy wrote on May 5^th, 2008 at 7:51am:

I went to my Local Kroger early Sunday morning to buy some groceries and I was was picking out my last item Lady Jane began to play over the loud speakers.

I've heard Lady Jane a couple of times at Kroger. Also Ruby Tuesday. The better the music, the longer I stay and the more I spend. Hey, they ain't stupid! Wink

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Reply #73 - May 5^th, 2008 at 10:50pm

tookthatname wrote on May 5^th, 2008 at 10:55am:

thats upper middle class too. nice neighborhood. within 2 blocks of 4 star hotel, major mall, museums, Imax, city hall, many nice restaurants and stores etc.

I work in san diego, live in Tijuana, so i make comparable to SF wages, but the cost of living is much cheaper here

All I can say is............WOW.

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