Well, pretty much everything costs more here then in the US I suppose.
Wii; 250 euros
Wii games: 50-56 euros
That's like paying 330 dollars for a wii :)
A small/medium sized house can easily cost up to 250000 euros here. My stupid economy teacher was always making lame jokes that you can buy a villa with that money in America.
| Samus Aran said:
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Yeah, how dare they give people something for nothing!
SamuelRSmith said:
Well, I'm glad somebody read it... I was worried my horrendous OP would put people off of it (evidently, it did). The thing that really struck me in the article was the differences in how people tried to sell houses, and how they try and make the house look unlived in. I find this particularly strange, because I'm moving house in a few weeks - and the reason why my parents chose the house was that it had history and character. It's sort of like in the states you buy a house to live in, but in the UK, you buy into a lifestyle. It's sort of like, the way the house has been designed, the people who lived in it before, represent a way of life that you want, and that's partly the reason that you buy the house. |
I find it interesting too, exactly because it's difficult for me to interpret. It may have something to do with a need to divorce yourself from the past, how having a new home is supposed to be a new beginning. It's part of why my mother doesn't want to move out of our old house: in doing so, she feels like she would be abandoning the history of the house and losing everything that's gone on in it.
I've never really thought of such things. I lack the perspective to be able to see that in my own culture. It's part of what makes the article so interesting.
I'd rather live in a country like Belgium were the government has my back then to live in the us and have no health care or decent insurance at all. I don't care if some people get money for doing nothing at all. All I know is that I'll make a hell of a lot more money then those people.
If you think this is a waste of cash then why the fuck did you guys pay taxes to fly to the moon? Isn't that a big waste? How big is the debt of America now? 11 trillion dollars?
But I may sound like a hate America now, but it has some nice places. There's not much to see in Belgium, so America has a lot more beatiful places then Belgium without a doubt. Las Vegas, grand canyon, Washinton DC, New York,etc are all great places and you just won't find something like that in my small country here.
| SamuelRSmith said: @Kasz Eh, sometimes when my family goes out for dinner (fam of 5), it can cost around the £150-£180 mark (and I'm not entirely sure if that includes alcoholic drinks). |
Yeah... and your a family of 5.
Note he said his parents spend that much alone.
His parents spend as much as your family of 5 does.
| Samus Aran said: Well, pretty much everything costs more here then in the US I suppose.
A small/medium sized house can easily cost up to 250000 euros here. My stupid economy teacher was always making lame jokes that you can buy a villa with that money in America. |
Depends where. In NYC you'd be lucky to be able to buy a condo for that.
In other places you could buy a huge house.
I don't think I'd like to live in NYC. There live more people there than in my country all together, so a little bit too crowed for my taste :)
Perhaps in Texas, then I can stalk Lance Armstrong xD
Khuutra said:
I find it interesting too, exactly because it's difficult for me to interpret. It may have something to do with a need to divorce yourself from the past, how having a new home is supposed to be a new beginning. It's part of why my mother doesn't want to move out of our old house: in doing so, she feels like she would be abandoning the history of the house and losing everything that's gone on in it. I've never really thought of such things. I lack the perspective to be able to see that in my own culture. It's part of what makes the article so interesting. |
I think the reason is simple.
Suburbanism....
the great expansion and sprawl.
The better houses were in the neighberhoods being built... and still are for that matter.
Therefore the better houses were those that nobody had lived in before.
It's still going on, with neighberhoods getting destoryed to make better neighberhoods for the rich, then the middle class get in to the old rich neighberhoods and the poor into the middle class etc.
That and often times in childhood I knew i read stories and saw stories about people who had their "Perfect house" planned out that they were going to build.
Kasz216 said:
I think the reason is simple. Suburbanism.... the great expansion and sprawl. The better houses were in the neighberhoods being built... and still are for that matter. Therefore the better houses were those that nobody had lived in before. It's still going on, with neighberhoods getting destoryed to make better neighberhoods for the rich, then the middle class get in to the old rich neighberhoods and the poor into the middle class etc. That and often times in childhood I knew i read stories and saw stories about people who had their "Perfect house" planned out that they were going to build. |
That might be true, but it's not so for my hometown: I live a few miles outside of a town that has a population of six thousand people.
The article sux. It was just random observations without a red line, other than the stealth criticism.
Western journalist are hypocrites, especially European ones.
He would never have included a similar story to the preacher who tried to faith heal his diabetic dying child, if this was a journey in an Arabic or other muslim country because it would be labeled as racism or islamo-phobia.
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