Real Value of Money

I would like to find out the real value of currencies in different countries - not the exchange rate. So here’s list list of basic stuff most people would buy. Just add the price you pay and your location.

  1. Beer - what you pay at a local pub, not at a 5star hotel - $2
  2. A packet of 20’s cigarettes - $2.10
  3. A loaf of bread - $0.80
  4. 1Liter of milk - $0.50
  5. 1 Liter of Coke - $1
  6. McDonalds Big Mac burger - $2.50
  7. 1 Liter of petrol (gas for Americans) - $0.90
  1. £.1.50-£2.20

  2. £4.50-£5.50 ?

  3. £0.20-£1.80

  4. £1.75

5 £2.75

  1. £0.99 or something?

£. £0.85 ?

im in the UK and we get taxed to f**k :mad:

Maby this might help not sure though :

That’s true, however, you do get something in return for that, like good free medical service and good schools, etc. You must see what happens to our tax money, here in South Africa…

My aim is to see what stuff costs in different countries, regardless of foreign exchange rates.

yea true…i dont mind, but i wish they would make it a little easier for people who are trying to get a good education and who are trying to work…i cant complain though really when i look at the other parts of the world… :no:

I’m with Daniels prices, save for two corrections:

Litre of milk (well, 2 pints) is under a pound. You can get six pints (3.4L) for about £1.60.

Petrol (gas) is about 90p a litre.

Oh, and beer varies hugely. The right place and you can get a pint (imperial pint, not us) for £1. It easily goes up to £3 when places can get away with it.

Finland

  1. Beer - what you pay at a local pub, not at a 5star hotel - from 2.50€
  2. A packet of 20’s cigarettes - about 4€
  3. A loaf of bread - depends, a bread might cost about 3€
  4. 1Liter of milk - 0.60€
  5. 1.5 Liters of Coke - 2€
  6. McDonalds Big Mac burger - 3.75€
  7. 1 Liter of petrol (gas for Americans) - about 1.10€ DOWN WITH GAS! DESTROY IT!

one euro € is 1.30 dollars $, so just multiply those numbers by 1.3 for dollars.

  1. Beer in a pub can vary from 0,50€ to 2,5€
  2. I don’t smoke
  3. A loaf of bread is about 1,5€
  4. A liter of milk - 0,5€
  5. Coke - 2€
  6. I don’t eat at McDonalds
  7. Petrol - must be about 0,9€ a litre

I got scammed once in Kenya with counterfeit $US. So when I sailed back to the states from Cape Town in '98 I converted everything I had into Swiss Francs (you know what a hassle that was with SA’s exchange regulations!). Anyhow, at P&P in CT all the food for 90 days (ships stores, no fresh produce) cost me just short of 700 ff. 200 gal of diesel cost 1700 ff.
In Brazil the same 90 days food cost me 380 ff and diesel cost 1200 ff. In Trinidad I didn’t need to restock for a full 90 days but both food and fuel was more expensive than Brazil and cheaper by far than SA. In Curacao food cost about the same as SA but diesel was about the same price as Brazil.

In the states prices of everything you listed (except maybe the big mac) varies so much from state to state it’s useless listing, and beer here is not worth paying for.

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Thank God, since '98, the value of our currency have improved and stabilised quite a bit. Around R7 = $1.
When I was a kid, our currency was actually stronger than the US$…

On a side note, am I the only one who finds it’s scary that McDonalds big mac burgers are as globally ubiquitous as everything else on that list?

Scary, but true. Some people have jokingly suggested that foreign currencies should be evaluated against a McDonalds burger, rather than the old gold standard.

IN THE US of frikin A (in NYC to be exact)

  1. Beer - round $3
  2. A packet of 20’s cigarettes - $5-8
  3. A loaf of bread - $1.39
  4. 1Liter of milk - $2
  5. 1 Liter of Coke - $1.50-1.75
  6. McDonalds Big Mac burger - $6.50 for the meal
  7. 1 Liter of petrol (gas for Americans) - $3.00 a gallon (4 litters)

Damn you still pay $3 a gallon for gas, it’s been down to $1.95 for a few weeks here, in MN. Everything else costs the same here.

Brazil

1-$1(in fact from 1 to 3)
2-$3
3-$1
4-$1,5
5-$1.19
6-$11(for the number 1)
7-$2,50(1 liter of gasoline)