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If You Eat, Drink, & Smoke, These Are The Worst Places To Live In The World
While the golden beaches and bronzed beauties may attract the world's eaters, drinkers, and smokers to Australia's shores, Melbourne and Sydney are the most expensive place in the world to partake of these life necessities. Close behind is that other paradise... Caracas, Venezuela. But if all you want to do is eat... the socialist safe haven of Venezuela is not where you want to end up as a loaf of bread costs on average over $11. It hasn't always been that way... the cost of eating, drinking, and smoking in Caracas has soared almost 400% in the last 10 years.
The price of eating the most basic food is highest in Caracas, Venezuela...
But if you want to drink and smoke too... Australia ousts the Socialist paradise...
However, Venezuela tops the charts for real inflationary costs for average citizen over the last 10 years...
Socialism por siempre...
Source: Deutsche Bank
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New Dehli or bust!
I wish they'd quit putting up Panama, I'm gonna have to change my plans.
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Ok, my junker caught me. I have no intention of relocating, never have, never will. I'll be the knife in your abdomen and the bullet in your brain...forever.
And if I have my way, my words will breed thousands of nmewn's, who will breed millions more.
I'd like to breed thousands of hot wmmns, who will breed millions more...
But in all faux seriousness, this article is sexist! Where is the cost of contraception for promiscuous women?!?
Packs of promiscuous women?
Innocently walking to the grocery store....and suddenly you're surrounded.
more likely by heinz ketchup and coca cola than Miley Cyrus.
Wonder how much that very bad Parisian cigarette would sell for in Laos!?
Probably very close to nothing... Every tried wild Timorese coffee!?
Traveling has taught me the flip side of bread prices; bread quality!
Even McDonalds tastes better where I live, so the Big Mac index fails too!
The reality is, you can't even make up how bad it it.
In our dreams...
Venezuela's annual inflation rate is around 57% thanks to El Presidente Maduro and his socialists, but filling a car with gas is still cheaper than a bus ticket.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/04/venezuela-crippled-by-56-inflati...This is a good thing, with the global obesity epidemic and of couse you should know about the bad health effect of drinking and smoking we should welcome this news. I for one hope to see further price increases, with the added bonus of this inflation boosting the economy.
Might wanna /sarc that shit before you get downvoted to oblivion.
Don't worry, for every down vote I donate 0.000001 bitcoin to fonestar
I'm always amazed when somebody posts up they're glad that the price of X is going up just because they don't use those products. It's incredible. Like you think that will somehow reduce the price of products you DO use because the price of something you DON'T use goes up? Or because maybe if the government taxes it into oblivion you'll pay less on YOUR taxes??
You're so wrong on so many different levels it boggles the mind. Do you occasionally have even the slightest inkling that you're being played?
You know what you sound like to me? A statist (liberal/progressive/socialist, pick a word for it). Or somebody clearly under their spell. Somebody who just wants desperately to tell other people how to go about their lives.
What you're not getting is this is the divide-and-conquer game. You're losing, too, you just don't realize it. You're rooting for the team that takes all and gives back crumbs. This affects YOU. Whether you realize it or not, it does. YOU are paying for this along with everyone else.
Righteous indignation, I like it.
Another year or so and the PC Thought Police will have passed another law prohibiting this kind of speech.
Enjoy it while you can ;-)
Critical thinking. They can pry it from my cold dead hands (before I have a chance to be a drain on society by collecting my Social Security or Medicare "entitlements").
Critical thinking seems to be in short supply with BitSters...lol.
Bitcoin Bingo: What Ticker Will the Winklevii Pick for Their ETF?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-13/bitcoin-bingo-what-ticker-will-the-winklevii-pick-for-their-etf-.html
Its like Satoshi-Winklevoss or sumpin ;-)
Is it legal to drink your own piss? Just wondering.
Does it look like I care what is legal or not for YOU to ingest?
Knock yourself out.
I for one hope to see further price increases...
Mr. President.....is that you?
In Aussie we drink piss all the time, although it tends to come in cans.
Now that is truly funny. It must be be to make me laugh out loud late at night in a sleeping house.
same here in the states. What passes here for beer and food is astounding...
No need to prohibit. That excites the kiddies. Just use net neutrality to "neuter" any speech you don't like. It'll be there all right, but buried so deep nobody will find it.
Kind of like having approved protest areas islolated from the main events, and no media coverage.
Awesome, very true.
Nice, big thumbs up for common sense.
Just to be clear I was being saracstic, I think you are correct.
I didnt really think that needed the sarc tag, butpeople sure do seem to be getting more dense by the day around here, don't they?
shhh, don't mention fonestar, he will hear you with his super bitcoin ears and be here before you can say 'Fuck off fonestar with your bloody bitcoins'
Oi! U got a fucken cig cunt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ
Governments never miss any opportunity to tax do they?
Everything in Australia is bloated and inflated to within an inch of implosion. The Australian funds management system has a huge unfunded hole due to internal crossholdings. Funds operated by the same manager "invest" in each other instead of in actual assets. This circular "investing" inflates the NTA on which units are issued, allows multiple fee overcharging, and fraudulently boosts profits. This blatant fraud is widespread and has been hidden by ASIC.
http://drbenway.blogspot.com.au
Enron lives!
They just changed their location.
"Wash" investments!
Yeah exactly! Except this scam is much bigger.
Romeo & Juliette
Must be rolling over in their graves? ;-)
How does that ugly witch at the IMF call this? Was is lowflation or deflation? I can't remember. Yellen and dragui both say that there's not enough inflation so it must be true, right?!
She might be ugly.....but she's got one hell of a tan. Kinda like our current Speaker of the House.
I bought 2 loaves yesterday, one cost 75c the other $2.20. Cigarettes are $2.80 and the 10 minute taxi back $4. Plus the country is not inhabited by racist drunk wankers and insects that would rather stab or poison you than look at you. Fuck Oz.
Not all of the racists are drunk wankers. Some of them are as Halal as the day is long, some like to Wok and Woll, and then others just ask you "Wot tha fuck are you lookin' at bro?!!".
The insects however, I can't argue with that.
Yeah, being racist and a drunk wanker are definitely not correlated. I spend part of every weekend being a drunk wanker and I'm not racist. I hate intolerant people, and the Ossies.
The libertarian in me likes taxes on "consumption". The difficulty is governments don't know when to quit raising taxes on "sin" stuff...and they kill the goose.
Look at places like NYC. You know there is a thriving black market there. It's been that way forever. I-95 has truckloads of blackmarket cigs going to NYC every day. Whatdo you pointy heads call it? "Price arbitrage"?
Buy cigs in VA or NC for cheap and sell in NYC after a short run up I-95.
I prefer taxes on consumption heaps over income and property taxes.
And it's a myth that consumption taxes are regressive and hard on the "poor". Nonsense!
I'm what is known as "working poor". I buy hamburger, not steak :)
But I do feed my friends Bonnie and Clyde "steak" FF to 3:30. Then, later Clyde feeds the steak to Bonnie at 6:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68VDbwZShgE
hairball
With a consumption tax, even the assholes on welfare would have to pay more taxes than they do now. Fuck people on welfare and fuck taxes.
more misleading nonsense.
people don't pay for these items in dollars, lest they are travelling and aren't required to convert their cash to forex to buy in domestic currency of each of the above graphs.
these nonsense orange to apples comparisons are continually made as if to demonstrate what it would be like for a person in america to live somewhere else.
the earning power, savings power, taxing obligations, gifting culture, and consumption habbits and relative prices of consumables are a unique patchwork defining each country. just boiling it all down to a 'dollars to dollars' comparison is myopic, dollarcentric and just wrong as a perspective trying to reveal truth.
Are a unique patchwork defining each country. just boiling it all down to a 'dollars to dollars' comparison is myopic".
Great comment
In particular, the stunningly high cost of a loaf of bread in Caracas is based on the official exchange rate of 6.3 bolivars per dollar.
Substitute the black market (real world) exchange rate of 80 bolivars per dollar, and it's probably the cheapest bread on earth.
So cheap that underpriced Venezuelan food is getting smuggled over the border to Colombia.
All of which goes to show that one can't just mindlessly apply official exchange rates. Garbage in, garbage out.
I've said it before.....Australia is ONE GIANT RIP OFF...............
we get to be overcharged for everything because we don't bother anyone and our ugly cities have never been bombed flat......
it is the land of 'no worries'...I've got a cold can in my hand..........
where we pay people on the dole to have children....
and the govt gives you $10,000 to buy a home..........
it is no wonder people are drowning in boats to get to this dumb ass place where no one born here can afford a basic home......
due to the loop hole that allows chinese students who are studying here to buy a house.....
they simply call a few thousand relatives to chip in.....pretty soon a shit hole is worth $700,000......
Don't forget that we're selling our farms, thus selling our abiity to produce our own food; digging massive holes that destroy the surrounding farmland (unless you've seen the massive mining operations in the Hunter Valley first hand, you've no idea of the scale of the idiocy); privatising our water supplies to whoever bids the most (Hunter Water as an example).
No one I know cares about anything here - just so long as they have a job, and those that don't, don't bother them. My best mate is currently trying to buy another parcel of land so he can increase his portfolio, and even though he's not sure if his job will exist in a years time, he's got no problem spending $650K to build a McMansion on 1000sqm of land.
Bake, brew, and grow your own. Don't get caught.
Edit: and yes, that too. Look out for drones.
Slow news day?
no popcorn needed
Who can afford popcorn?
It is more expensive to buy food in Perth than Melbourne or Sydney due to its isolation. I used to think living costs were expensive in Melbourne and Sydney both of which I lived in for some years, then I came to perth, WOW! and they don't even have ALDI over here.
VIVA Australia !
If you have a brain, and the wherewithal to apply it...... then Oz should be the last place you ever contemplate as a refuge.
Once we get Oz terraformed, she'll be right.
No guns there....great place to go if you're a criminal. Except for the big farms....all their farm hands have machine guns. As you can guess....the cops don't bother them.
"No guns there....[]....all their farm hands have machine guns."
Ah.......?
If you have the sligthest incling of decency, You'll visit me in "Port Douglas"My door is always open Schmuck Raker
I'm just amazed that socialist Brazil didn't make those charts.
well, i've never bought a loaf of bread in caracas, but i often buy bread in paris, and the notion that a loaf costs over $8 (€5.85 approx) is risible. try €2.
I think these charts were meant to show US inflation compared to the rest of the world. But since most Americans still think US-centric, they confuse the figures with the cost of living in the countries mentioned in the charts.
Remember those travel guides "Europe on $1 a day"? Well, it would be "Europe on $100 a day" now.
This is also the reason why every year more Europeans than Americans visit NYC: Europeans can afford NYC, Americans cannot.
Bread prices for Australia are off beam as well. Typical loaves can be bought as cheaply as $1.02 US you can pay $4.50 US but on average you will pay a lot less
Even less than that. I live in Sydney Australia and shop daily. From Aldi I purchased a standard loaf of sliced white bread for 99 cents (about 90 US cents). If I spluge on a nice multigrain kibble bread it costs $2.89 and that is about a third heavier than a standard loaf.
I also purchased a bottle of Cabernet Savignion for $2.69 last weekend. Cigarettes are heavily taxed but wouldn't make half of the $40 "average" claimed by this survey for bread/wine/cigs.
Better for us to have a high idiot tax on cancer sticks than to tax the essentials of life (like bread and other staples) as you can choose to not smoke (or you can smoke your own home grown tobacco) but not eating isn't really an option.
Smoke your own home grown tobacco? If I got caught growing a tobacco plant here in South Australia it can land me a $50000 fine and two years in jail. Only a few years ago here I could grow ten marijuana plants and get a $150 on the spot fine. It's a crazy world!
These charts don't mean a thing. It all depends on the wages. If you live in Zurich or Geneva then you will also make a very generous wage, and you will not have any problem with daily expenses. This is why quality of life in Zurich is also among the highest in the world.
Compare prices in Swiss supermarkets with Spanish or Greek supermarkets and you will see what I mean. In Spain and Greece you will pay way more for the same items, while the average wage in Switzerland is up to 10x higher...
Of course, if you're a tourist, or expat with a non-swiss-level wage, you're fucked because rents are very high, and so is eating/drinking out. Healthcare is among the highest in the world too.
$9 loaf on bread in Paris.... Must cum with a happy ending or a half hour with a cranky old French whore. Where are you getting your data from. I live in Paris..a great loaf of bread is 2 euro.
Too bad they don't have an equivalent chart for chicken prices. Here in Algiers a whole, raw chicken can go for $11 in certain neighborhoods. The rotisserie guy must get a volume discount, because I only pay him $9 for a whole, cooked bird.
Funny thing. I have lived in Melbourne for 5 years - with my family. The rent went up only once - by 5%. I have a breadmaker which makes fantastic loaves from ready-made packets of flour from Coles (I add nuts to improve it) - it costs about $6 for 4 loaves. I get wine from http://www.nakedwines.com.au/ which costs around $12 per bottle of fantastic wine. I don't smoke.
I have the impression that this survey does not include people like me.
Monte Carlo or GTFO.
damn, I live in Panama City.
"While the golden beaches and bronzed beauties may attract the world's eaters, drinkers, and smokers to Australia's shores..."
Not smokers. If you've ever tried to live in Australia as a smoker, you'll find it's probably the most oppressive anti-smoking country on earth. Queensland leads the way - smoking is banned on beaches, and in outdoor areas of restaurants. I found myself drinking a coffee, alone on a street under an umbrella 30 feet from a Starbucks in a tropical thunderstorm, and a girl from the Starbucks came running out through buckets of rain to tell me I had to either put out the cigarette or not stand under their umbrella. Oh and I couldn't sit in their chair either. And that wasn't the Starbucks rule - that was the law in QLD. You can't even smoke in the casinos.
At one point, my girlfriend wanted to eat lunch and I wanted a beer and a smoke, and there was a bar/restaurant that had an outdoor area that was licensed for smokers. You could bring a beer out there but they couldn't serve you out there. So she ordered her food inside and then took it out to sit outside with me. The manager came out and told her she had to bring her food back in, because there couldn't be any eating on the smoking patio. These people are NUTS. And it ain't a freewheeling do-what-you-please society. We're talking about a country where if you squeal your tires, you get a ticket, and if you do it twice they take your car and crush it.
Not to mention a six pack of cheap beer costs something like $12 because of the taxes -- and it's easy to see that Australia is the hardest place on earth to live besides maybe California if you're Joe sixpack smoker.
But! When you take that big CAT to Fitzroy Island over the barrier reef and slide into the warm, clearest and best visabilty water with more color,reefs and fish on this Earth, you know why you're there! Queensland Australia.
That's true, it's a beautiful country and worth visiting. I love the nature and the wildlife and the people are great. i just wish they'd let a fella relax and have his smoke and his drink in peace. There's enough space. I lived there for a year and after awhile I felt like I spent half my waking hours just going out of my way for somewhere to smoke and be left alone... I also noted I was spending more on beer than I was on food. Just to do the normal thing on a hot weekend, which is sit under an umbrella somewhere with a cold beer and a book, was always kind of a pain. I found it a lot easier living out in the small towns.
luckystrike, you want to be free to smoke wherever you want, but you are not the only person on the planet. Your action of smoking around others infringes on the rights of others not to breathe your smoke.
Do you think the waitress in that restaurant wants to go into that cloud of smoke to clean up the dirty plates of patrons? Those smoking restrictions were introduced because the statistics showed that barmaids and similar workers in smoky workplaces had a much higher passive smoking deathrate than the general population. IIRC the chance of passive smoking caused deaths in such workers was worse than 1 in 10 if they made a career of it.
You also have it wrong about sqealing your tyres twice gets your car crushed. They only crush the cars of the worst serial offenders of those engaging in burnouts and street racing. Moronic hoons who are a menace to everybody.
Cheap beer is under AUD25 for a slab (24 cans). That is about 90 US cents/can.
People shouldn't be allowed to smoke on the beach and dump their butts on the beach. I don't mind if people outside smoke but there are a lot of smokers who give no thought where they flick their butts when they are finished.
I don't mind that you smoke.
I mind if I go home and your smoke is on my clothes and the smell is in my house.
I will gladly send you my dry cleaning bill to remove your stench from my clothes and my living room.
Hmm a loaf of bread at Aldi or Woolworths costs a dollar, a litre of milk costs a dollar and if you want to get drunk cheaply you can always brew your own or buy cheap wine. I think whoever wrote this does not know how to live on a budget.....
Don't bring up faux studies funded by the smoke hating nazis. Buy contaband smokes from the indians.
Lowering the cost of smoking might fix our obesity epidemic. Smoking makes people eat less because it makes food taste fucking horrible. I really don't understand smoking, but I guess it works for some people.
It's not like we produce much wine, or agriculture in Australia, why wouldnt it be expensive. Although we do have the lowest debt to GDP ratio's in western world at moment, the govt here just announced a brutal cost cutting federal budget with a defecit tax and fuel excise for good measure. Wow I wonder what a defecit tax would like look in U.S (scared)
While i'm ranting I'll start a civil uprising the next time a politician justifies new/increased tax with the line "it's the equivalant of 1 cup of coffee per day" WELL FUCK OFF THEN. I need coffee to survive my day and given we cant afford cigs, alcohol, or my daily bread in the land of Oz anymore it's the only pleasureI have left in an otherwise miserable existance.
p.s you also forgot we have the most expensive electricity in western world and petrol must be right up there at 1.50 per litre.
You can instantly tell who are the Americans are on this post when they rant about how expensive groceries & food are in the US compared to other countries vs local PPP and incomes. Also in a lot of parts of the US it is quite easy to grown and maintain a small garden which is quietly making a huge comeback unseen like anything since the end of WW2.