$$$ is worth SHIT in Europe
 

That's fucking sad.

Sadly true.

Just means we have to try a bit harder :)

yes ... checks are like *0,8

but we can buiy cheap stuff from the americanos..

good time to invest

Yeah, Checks suck atm, but its a good time to be buying stuff from US

Man, wtf, i just checked XE and we lost like another 3% of our income in just a few days!!! Fuck, it hasnt been this in a long time!

It's depressing! :( We're almost forced to buy a mansion in US and just wait for the graph to go the right way :waaaaahh

why are you all bitching about $ worth shit in europe

how much does it a drink cost when you go out to a club?

$7.50 in South Florida
$.50 cents in croatia

how much for bread?
or even blowjob at a strip club or escort....

so how can u bitch

Please enlight me if western european prices of goods are inline with USA. Let me know which countries plz. i d love to know

I seriously doubt that they are tho.

later

:sadcrying

One litr of gasoline cost 1.7 usd in Netherlands (you get 5 liters for this price?)
Plasma TV 42 inch 11k usd (4k usd in US ?)
Apple G5 I bought for 6500 usd with normal configuration (3k in US ?)

But life is cool here anyway so I dont bitch too much

:glugglug

That's a crappy comparison..

fyi, croatia is no western european country.. I highly doubt prices in the USA are a lot higher than in, for example, the Netherlands, Germany or Scandinavia..

Sucks for you, but that's okay because I'm in the USA. Booya!

Freedom cost much more then money :glugglug

Don't you have some coffee to drink? :Graucho

$7,50 is standard in west europe

thats the 6eur happy hour price :(

You guys gotta start investing using a basket of currencies instead of just USD.

:thumbsup

Look another "the rest of the world still lives in caves" ignorant American.


I can tell you that living in Amsterdam is more expensive than most places in the US. And plenty of other places in Europe as well. Wtf you think we are? A 3rd world continent?

Idiot.

Exactly the same as i was about to say. Just because youve never been there, dont assume Europe is a 3rd world continent.

Mercedes CL 65 AMG

USA - $ 178,000 (without taxes and other fees)

Poland - $ 314,000 (with taxes)

It's east europe but hmm what do I know.
Cheap bastards!!! :winkwink:

And you probably don't want to pay $4.20 per gallon

true true... :(

And how much are your housing costs? You cant compare 1 luxury item alone.

You should visit London, Vienna or the South of France easily as expensive as anywhere in the US.

adis55, you dont a thing about prices in Croatia, or even life in Croatia..

you should be comparing salaries to the US and Croatia, and then try to draw conclusions..

and you can't compare eastern and western european countries :2 cents:

how can can you compare a country like Croatia to the US which is not even in EU?

Because most Americans dont have a fucking clue about the rest of the world. They think America is the only civilized continent and the rest of the world retarded.

True!:2 cents: :2 cents: :2 cents:

As a community service, I am now accepting all unwanted US payments!

I hate to see people suffering.

:thumbsup

-Dino

always depends if you buy or sell :winkwink:

I don't see it improving if we have Bush re-elected.

From my understanding, the switch over to the Euro highly increased prices as well. For example in Italy what was once 1 lira was now 2 euro....but peoples paychecks stayed the same....so basically doubling the cost of goods without any increased salary to match.

I think it's more expensive to live in most of Europe compared to the U.S.

it was like that in most countries that were in EU in 2000/2001

So you're saying it's not like that anymore and wages/price of goods have settled down?

I had cousins visiting from Italy here just a few weeks ago and they complained that it's still the same since the Euro switch....things cost twice as much but there paychecks are the same as before.

Maybe it's just Italy then?

Ok since this thread switched from the original topic I will start bitching too.

A Chrysler 300 cost here 3 times more expensive (in the Netherlands) than as it cost in the USA. Before I even can buy this car I first have to earn much more money because I pay a shit load on taxes on every single euro. So when I finally want to drive I have to pay a shit load on money for gas, insurrance, road taxes, fines etc etc.

I receommend all Americans who have never been to Europe not to answer in a thread like this if you don't know what the hell you are talking about. Europe is expensive and the $ has already been devaluated enough.

I like the US, please don't be angry to me :winkwink:

no, i'm saying that the same thing happened in austria and germany as well (which were in EU before as well as italy)

the countries taht weren't in EU were not affected (as) much.

No, it's not only Italy, wages didn't increase and prices not only increased but they keep increasing.

I don't know how it is in poland but I'm 100% sure houses in the netherlands are way more expensive compared to houses in the us...

First of all you moron, i was born and raised in Europe.
been in us for 9 years.
Croatia happens to be neighbor of my country and thats why i brought it up in my post.

only reason i was mentioning western euro countries cause i didnt know the prices and wanted to be enlightned.

so there is your answer u dumb fuck.

i finally get involved in offensive altercation on GFY !!!

its about time

BIGOTE]Originally posted by Mefo
I don't know how it is in poland but I'm 100% sure houses in the netherlands are way more expensive compared to houses in the us... [/QUOTE]

I have lived for almost half my life outside the US, and what you are saying is true. The EU is VERY expensive, the average standard of living is lower compared to costs, and the average unemployment rate is much higher than the US (it's actually DUOBLE in Germany what it is here!).

With the trillions of dollars lost from 9/11, the US tresury has worked had to weaken the dollar to bring back our economy. It has helped US exporters and foreign investmentsin US business in a BIG way, but unfortunately this has been very detrimental to the EU, and the big banking organizations in Europe are trying really hard to weaken the euro right now.:2 cents:

why do people even bother to try and "convert" the ignorant americans on this board ? ? its beyond me

I am not saying all americans are ignorant because that just aint true , there a lot of americans that have a realisitic idea about how life in europ is and how it is not

but sadly there are also lots who have no clue whatsoever but love to make all sort of claims about it



this of course goes both ways , there are those from europe that make the dumbest claims about americans in general .........

sucks!

I'm guessing you've never been to western Europe?

adis, are you bosnian?

HOLY FUCKING SHIT! You dont see over the border, do you?

http://www.finfacts.com/img/costofliving50cities.gif

As you can see, 6 out of the 10 most expensive cities to live in are in Europe. New York follows on #12.

Even Dakar, Senegal is more expensive than Florida. Sometimes its just too funny.

and yeah ... it really sucks!

I'm not sure where you heard that, but it isn't quite true... :1orglaugh

Before money changes 1DM (German Mark) was around 1.000 Italian liras. So, on the day of the change, 1 euro is changed for 2.000 Italian liras...

Then, I would really like to know about club in Croatia where you can get dring for 50cents... Here in Budapest you can't get drink in "normal" club bellow 2-5 bucks, and the prices are very simillar in Belgrade and Prague as well...

And, I'm paying my apartment $650 per month without bills (phone, Net, power, etc...). Nothing spectacular - 72m2...

Gaseline is $1.30 per litre (x3.78 ~ $4.9 per gal)...
And I need $6.000 for the camcorder which you can by in USA for $2.900...

he/she just said above they were born there and has lived in the US for 9 years :Graucho

Funny how living there for only 9 years already will make you as simply as most Americans.

I bet he votes Bush as well.

I guess i would be in shock, when I was in Europe, (in the Army) in the pay line we could change our $$ into marks, 4 marks =$1.00... downtown it was 3.50 to 3.80 marks.

Why not just order a PAL camera from BH in NYC and have it shipped to you in Hungary? If customs finds out they will take the camera?

By the time I paid everyone who is along to way to me buying land and building a house, I paid out over 250k here in Poland for a building I could have had for much less in most usa states -
I drive a ten year old car I paid four times the price I could have bought the same car in the UK. I also have to pay four times the cost of fuel here compared to the States -

The dollar has now dropped through the floor - 30% lower in real terms of that I was making online 4 years ago - and now I can litterally only use usa ccp's based in the states as Visa is slowly pushing all the online business that way-

I work harder to make up the difference and do not complain - But some of you Americans really ought to get your asses outside the country and look at other people's points of view without being so uninformed, arrogant, and often quite amazingly clueless about life outside of your own toilet.

heh, let me tell you dude that in Sweden its way fucking more expensive, $0,5 for a drink?? what a fucking joke, if you want a cheap one its costs $8 here......
Gas, $1,3 per liter.
1 pound of steak goes at around $10
and we pay 35% in income tax :(