What's the definition of being a millionair in your country?

[wangjingwanjia]

Lumikki said:

wangjingwanjia said:

Most interesting for me would be to know from current Euro currency countries, whom formerly used another(weaker) currency. For example France or Finland.

1 million FRF (was) €150 000 or $210 000 and 1 million FIM (was) €170 000 or $230 000. So, do you define people with €150/170 000 a millionair in France/Finland today?

I was a little kid when we changed our currency to the euros, so nowadays when I see some old articles with FIM prices I need to translate them into euros. When the currency change happened, an euro was roughly 6 FIM, so the euro was way more stronger than FIM. Due the inflation I'm not sure what is the exact translation today. 

There are two things I have noticed after the euro became the currency:

1. No more dropped money on the ground - when I was a kid I found very often small coins scattered on the ground that I could easily buy some candy with it. Nowadays, you can consider yourself lucky if you found even 5cnt lying there. I guess this shows how much the value of the money has increased. 

2. The thing that used to cost 2 FIM costs now 2€. I bet this is mostly because inflation, but also they have raised taxes lately alot. I would be interested to hear an opinion from the countries that have recently changed their currency to the euro, such as Latvia and Estonia. 

Also, interesting that you chose France and Finland (especially Finland) as an example. Thought no one outside of Europe knows our country exists xD

Now to the main point: Yes, a person with one million FIM was called as a millionaire :D 

Oh, I actually thought that Finland had changed recently to Euro, France too. Shows that I don't know all too much about Europe after all. So yeah, Latvia and Estonia would be interesting. :P