Inflation in Essentials

kabayiri

I wonder whether you have consider everything you consume on a day to day basis to work out the true cost of inflation ?
- bread
- dairy
- energy
- that hip replacement operation
- legal aid counsel when you are on a hit n run charge!
- cancer drugs
- your slice of the next Trident upgrade
- defence of the realm aircraft carriers over budget and over due

I reckon I can easily work out which of those items are moving up in price well ahead of CPI

chewmylegoff

purch wrote: »

A pint of Stella in the Railway or the Lord Russ Conway at Liverpool Street was over 4 quid in 1990 !!!

We were paying even more than that in Henry's on Piccadilly which was our local :eek:

In about 1996 you could get a pint of mild for 98p in my local. I should really move back there, it was great apart from the fact that all the locals had a strange affinity to punching me in the face.

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

A fiver a pint!!! F... me! That's mad.

I leave the country for a bit more than four years and you guys break it. Always remember the 2 Golden rules:

1. Don't muck up
2. Never forget rule #1.

Still cheaper than drinking in Sydney, and I don't get kicked out by an aggressive bouncer wearing a high viz vest after my third pint either!

grizzly1911

chewmylegoff wrote: »

In about 1996 you could get a pint of mild for 98p in my local. I should really move back there, it was great apart from the fact that all the locals had a strange affinity to punching me in the face.

When I first started having a tiple at thend of the 70s bitter was 26p and lager 36p.:p

Generali

grizzly1911 wrote: »

No wonder gen tells us not to fret over 5p on a litre of fuel.

@gen

Is the article a true reflection (not about a limes)?

Pretty much. The thing about the cars is rubbish, car age well over here as they don't grit the roads.

You earn a lot but the cost of many things is high. For most adults, the minimum wage is $20 plus 9% Super (compulsory pension scheme) so the minimum a full time employee will earn is $40,000 = £27,000. In addition, taxes are much less than in the UK.

The lifestyle here is much better than in the UK. For example, if I wanted to go and see the kids do something I'd be made to feel bad about it or prevented altogether. Here it's just completely normal to take several hours off (paid) to go to sports day/speech day/school play etc. I even got asked whether I was happy with the hours I work in my regular meeting with my boss.

The cost of living upsets some ex-pats but I reckon you need to look at everything in the round. If you earn more and spend more where's the problem? I make a bit more than I would in the UK net I reckon, netting a bit more than £1,000 a week. I can buy enough limes to satisfy my requirements you'll be glad to hear.

GeneHunt_2

prowla wrote: »

You have to watch out for some of the hidden increases too, like the size of tin cans has got smaller, loaves of bread aren't quite as long as they were (especially the home bake ones). They may not necessarily show up on a price index, but they surely represent an increase.

Can't talk about the TP index but boh CPI and RPI would take account of the things you mention above and would show up as an increase.

GeneHunt_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

In my local pub a pint is about £4.75.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

!!!!!! where do you live? A pint in the centre of London only costs £4...

Generali

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Still cheaper than drinking in Sydney, and I don't get kicked out by an aggressive bouncer wearing a high viz vest after my third pint either!

Ah well there's your mistake. If you drink pints they'll assume you're a trouble maker. If you stick to schooners then you'll be fine.


As to the bouncers, where were you drinking? We don't need bouncers in the pubs I visit.

chewmylegoff

GeneHunt wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

!!!!!! where do you live? A pint in the centre of London only costs £4...

Depends which pub you drink in really- I know several places in London which aren't particularly poncey where you can pay £6+ for a pint. I'm in Richmond - to be fair there are other pubs which are much cheaper, but they are further to walk to and I am lazy...

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

Ah well there's your mistake. If you drink pints they'll assume you're a trouble maker. If you stick to schooners then you'll be fine.


As to the bouncers, where were you drinking? We don't need bouncers in the pubs I visit.

I was right in the middle - found pretty much everything had a bouncer lurking outside it, although this was Friday/Saturday night and on the Saturday there had been a soccer game between the Sydney not very goods and the West Sydney slightly worses.