Why on earth is this country so expensive?

Half a kilo of Marathon? Do they do a similar sized Mars bar? If so, I'm moving to Scotland to make my fortune.

I got a BB fitted and it was fifteen pounds!

You should go to one of these friendly bike shops DFP always raves about who do everything for free.

Believe.

Healthcare prices are ridiculous in the other direction. For example, an ambulance ride 5 miles across town costs about $1200.

Wow!

Obviously universal health care (UK) or 'Obamacare' is the work of some corporate devil...

Apparently Iceland is a great place to live.

I'm yet to be convinced, whatever the Guardian / Observer says.

Rather you than me , there's literally nothing to do whatsoever in huge swathes of the country and even Reykjavik leaves a lot to be desired in terms of culture , and everythings expensive ( but they do have next to no crime)

Yeah, the UK is great. No money for a cab to get home after a boozy night? Go have a kebab and have your lights knocked out after getting in an argument with some random stag do. It works well if you live near a hospital.

I went into a corner shop in Pimlico to buy a single 1st class stamp. Admittedly its been a while since I bought my last one, I think it cost 29p last time, today it was 80p. 80p! But where have you hidden your horse Mr Turpin?

A first class stamp is 60p. A 20p service charge is a bit steep.

It would be worse if he ordered his stamps to be delivered by Parcelforce.

Apart from rent, London's a pretty cheap place to live IME...

Years of being a penniless musician taught me how to shop... i.e. I don't go to Waitrose...

No, you go to Big Dwayne. If he doesn't have any, try Smiley.

Yeah, the UK is great. No money for a cab to get home after a boozy night? Go have a kebab and have your lights knocked out after getting in an argument with some random stag do. It works well if you live near a hospital.

It's not even that. I have a paramedic friend who has a regular 'client' that phones the 999 Ambulance service and self-discharges from A&E because he lives round the corner.

All the Ambulance drivers and medics know who he is but they are powerless not to respond to an emergency call!

Run him over when they get there.

"He looks like he's in a lot of pain" administer enough morphine to knock him out for three days.

See how many common ambulamps objects will fit in his anus.

Shit on him.

Oh yeah!

I paid 15.99 for a roll of portra 400 film from a fucking multi pack in crappy snaps the other week, went to return it later that day but another worker was on duty so I showed her my receipt and it said £15.99 for photographic services, nothing specific. They wouldn't take it back.

Ah I found the 'cost of living' thread. Everything seems to be going up, weekly.

A first class stamp is 60p.

£1.65.

Most of that is inflation, tbf. And since this thread was last active, they've invented email and mobile phones, so...

Ok I'll send my post by email on my phone then.

Full trolley (till overflowing) of shopping in USA supermarket costs $58.oo (£29.00 equivalent); here that could easily cost £100.00 and more. 3 times more expensive.

This seems to have been a big change in my experience. I was out visiting in laws in the states in February this year and a food shop at a bog standard supermarket is comfortably double the price of a UK shop.

We are a family of 4. We shop at a spot called Trader Joe's which is a reasonable very popular non-shit mid-class fancy sort of hit the nail on the head grocery chain. It's easily 150-200 bucks a week for normal food that we run out of by Saturday.

Mind you this is in addition to the occasional visit to the big box wholesale places like Costco for expensive items like olive oil, etc.

I make a good living and between the mortgage rates and cost of living still struggle a bit.

Trader Joe's which is a reasonable very popular non-shit mid-class fancy sort of hit the nail on the head grocery chain literally Aldi

Apart from all the ALDIs over there.

That's just Aldi Nord v Sud right