100 $$$ worth SHIT in Europe

That is the average salary for every 2 weeks? Every month?

monthly

you can't read, and you misquoted me, you missed out the bit where I said third world hell hole. Sure if you compare the USD to non-industrialised countries it hasn't devalued. Seriously is that the best you can come up with?

Why do you think Gold is at $430 and part of the reason oil is so high? It's because the dollar has lost value.

It's not fucking rocket science, the Government has MASSIVE budget deficit and there's a massive trade deficit, how are they financed? By selling dollars and printing dollars

With that kind of selling pressure and increase in dollar supply of course the value is going down. Coincided with low interest rates (which essentially means buying and holding USD will give you a negative real return)
All the macroeconomic indicators are pushing the USD down.

Are you going to provide anything to support your position that the USD has not devalued?

Regarding this issue, you cannot compare the domestic price levels.
Comparing the exchange rate now and back then, makes more sense.
4 years ago, I got 30 % more national currency when I exchanged one dollar, i.e. I got 30 % more money on my bankaccount. Thats a fact and it sucks.

However, a smart person, will also see that europeans will pay 30 % less, when they sign up for a paysite, which has dollars as payment. So why not targeting non-us traffic more, and cover the "loss"? Its supply/demand. Take advantage of it, instead of doing nothing :thumbsup

Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. I know those times when the "Gulden" was $2,30.. Good old times.

you are on a verge of a deflation, even though it is not crisis, it is still bad, and the dollar has lost value to most currencies, specially do to the huge national debt

"Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan sent the Treasury market soaring last week when he hinted that the Fed is worried about deflation. But by some measures, it's already here. Stock prices, for example, have fallen more than 40% the past three years.

The government's producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, fell an unexpectedly sharp 1.9% in April, mainly because of oil prices. But the core consumer goods segment of the index has been falling for 16 months, says John Lonski, chief economist at Moody's Investor Service. "I don't know where the Fed has been," Lonski says.

Will the USA fall into a deflationary spiral? "There is a very low probability of deflation, but it will be very dangerous if it does happen," says David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's."


http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/...5-invest_x.htm

Note this is from 2003, things are worse now :glugglug

That must suck:(

Time for you to move

On top of it, even people with diesel cars are getting fucked nowadays with gasoline prices beeing almost the same diesel fuel prices..

Things aren't very well...

As for people say Croatia and such are cheap, sure they are...for you but their salarys are DREADFUL, a guy working on construction here (Portugal) and not even getting paid as a legal worker (= which means he gets less) makes more money that a laywer or doctor there....

You seem to think everybody has killer salarys all over the world...get real folks...(that on top of taxes and such...)

Like here in Portugal we pay on average +4000? for the same car in Spain since he have some extra car taxes...great ain't it?...

Well at least our president is a clown but far from beeing a bush :P

Well at last hosting and stuff is quite cheap :glugglug

Word, specially when you have some customers that pay in euros :Graucho

yup :drinkup

As you see, it sucks to be a dane :(

Netherlands

Honda Civic type R----> 38,348.9 USD

Houses
http://tinyurl.com/6h766 --> 420,560 USD !!!

http://tinyurl.com/3ugoy --> 1,789,619 USD

man ... what the hell are you talking about .

Italy never had lira ... it was lire . and it was 1000 lire not 1 .

oh man ... :( .....

really ? it seems you are Mr.Professional ...
your President fucks your economy pretty good (but not his own economy) .... that´s why the US$ is shit worth in all other countries in the world . :2 cents:

yeap I agreed with you Sweden is a lot more expensive ......:(

With the $ dropping from $1.43:£1 early last year to $1.86 yesterday when I transferred a wire, it's hitting us guys in the UK very badly and has done for quite a while...

Last year: $1000 = £699
Yesterday $1000 = £537

With sales dropping for a lot of us over this period of time as well, I don't know of too many UK webmasters going out to buy a new Rolls Royce these days :)