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Two hoildays is hardly out there is it? Nor is two meals out. Probably with only one alcoholic drink.
I say it is, but I grew up not expecting that level of luxury.
I would guess I’m a lot older than you and that will definitely affect my pov.
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I guess from a UK perspective at that time you could have a holiday for £800pp fairly easily and even in London it wasn't hard to find nice good value places for under £40pp with a drink. With a group at places like the Vietnamese on Greek St or Tayyabs, you'd split a bill and it would be £20 with drinks.
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Two hoildays is hardly out there is it? Nor is two meals out. Probably with only one alcoholic drink.
Idk when we lived in NYC in 2017/18, my estimate was you'd need a household income of ~$250k to live what I'd think of as a standard UK middle class lifestyle.
Even back then the cost of non-shit food was astronomical. I'd split our shopping between 3 supermarkets* to save money and bring costs somewhere in the region of a shop at F&M. Here I tend to do a food shop at Aldi and household stuff at Tesco, but I wouldn't devote time to being militant about visiting specific shops.
I know New York is New York, but it struck me as so much more expensive on every level.
*Stop & Shop, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's. Sometimes Target too. In case anyone's curious.