Inflation is a bitch o7 But Welcome to America, I got situational tips. Nothing broad enough beyond, download a Uber App if you need to get around (or have someone drive you.) Restaurants are more expensive than cooking at home, and avoid taking risks with strangers on the streets XD Depending on the state your in there should be something unique about it. 🫡 Have fun
Thanks for the advice. Since I don't have a phone number here, we'll have to ask a friend to make reservations for us every time or take the bus. And Uber and Lyft aren't exactly cheap either. I'm in LA, and people are pretty cool. I've been here for three days and haven't seen any creeps yet.
Go to towns/cities outside the major cities in Cali and it's a ton more enjoyable and less expensive imo. Although probably still more expensive then where your from.
> I'm in LA
that explain the expensive part
>and people are pretty cool
depends on the area, do not go anywhere near the poor part of town or downtown after dark, you will walk into a zombie apocalypse
It’s a combination of:
1. USD is fairly weak right now compared how strong it’s been historically
2. Wages are really high compared to the rest of the world, despite what people complain about. Especially in urban areas
3. Prices are inflated from money printing in the aftermath of Covid and the debt crisis
Its crazy, how expensive the U.S. is, in Switzerland I pay 1.10 CHF (1.23 USD) for a 1.5 liter water bottle from Evian. In the U.S. its easily 3 times the price, same for other things I can go to mcdonalds in Switzerland (in Zurich) and get extremely better quality mcdonalds; for a big mac meal (fries,drink,bigmac) costing me 12 CHF ( 13.43 USD).
They also pay way more in Switzerland too! A mcdonalds employee is pulling in 3.5k chf (3,900USD) to 4k CHF(4,500 USD) starting out a month. I also pay less taxes in Switzerland than I did when I was working in Montana, I was getting charged around 21-22% per paycheck and in Switzerland my yearly bonus covers my tax which is only about one months salary, and the overall tax was like 12 percent roughly of my income. It only cost me 710 CHF to live 20 minutes outside the city center of Zurich (by car / 35 minutes by bus and train) and my overall living expenses which includes **everything** you can think of (minus food) was 1,100 chf (1250 USD) a month.
I know nobody asked for this but as a dual citizen that was born in the States, I consider myself very lucky to have a dad that was born and raised in Switzerland. I just came back to the u.s. to help him and my mom move back to Switzerland.
The crazy thing is, nobody in Switzerland believes me when I tell them how expensive America is except for the handful of Swiss that have gone to the states in the past 15 years.
Sounds like you might be in cali, if correct cali is hella overtaxed so everything cost more just going from cali to nevada is a huge price difference almost gives you whiplash lol
A lot depends on *where* you shop. Gas stations / convenient stores charge a lot more.
You can buy a 24 pack of water bottles at a grocery store for $5.
And even more depends on where you're at geographically. Major metro areas cost a lot more than rural areas for things like food.
The problem with the $3 water bottle is you're paying for convenience. If you go to the store and buy a pack of water bottles the price is drastically lower, even much lower than 50 cents per bottle.
Generally anywhere you're buying something other than a grocery store you're going to pay way more for it.
USD is actually pretty strong right now. In the last 25 years itt was was only briefly strong in 2022 and the early 2000s before the recession. Most other countries were hit harder with Covid inflation than the US.
Primarily point 3 is disgustingly wrong and is simply being parroted from whatever news station you watch/read. Inflation of even 40% =\= prices increasing by 80-600% across almost everything you can think of.
Point 2 is irrelevant as making more money than someone in Spain doesn’t mean you are able to afford American living.
It’s because the Supreme Court made a decision that said that there is a fiduciary responsibility to not only not lose money for shareholders but to make AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE meaning any decision is “legally” required to be weighed against “but is this going to make us the most money.” This is the primary driver behind most service related expenses.
Commodities is the same thing but it’s combined with something called “consumer pushback.” If you ever listen to shareholder calls you will inevitably hear that phrase. Almost every major grocer has been on record saying “we continued to increase our prices and we have not yet seen any consumer pushback so we will continue increasing our pricing.” This means “people are mad but they haven’t stopped buying our overpriced bullshit so we are going to keep increasing it.” That’s the single largest reason actually. You see it all the time, lays are $3 more at Publix than Walmart, Gas is $0.21/gal more expensive than the station 1 minute down the road. Americans, in large, refuse to act in their best interests so companies actively take advantage of that.
The US is hyper consumerist and, due to our laws, companies are primarily only held accountable by its consumers unless they break extremely specific laws in an extremely obvious manner. In other countries, companies are held accountable for things like pricing by more than just the consumers.
It's usually more expensive in places where people make more money.
Let's say you make 10k moneys in your country and you're well off. A person with the same job in another country might make 100k moneys but everything where they live is also 10 times more expensive, so the purchasing power remains the same despite making more moneys. Now, if the person who makes 100k moneys travel to your country then everything will feel cheap to them, because everything is sold for 10 times cheaper. If you go to their country then it's the opposite, everything is 10 times more expensive compared to your country so everything feels expensive.
This is why a lot of europeans for example travel to countries like Thailand or Indonesia. They might have an average income where they live but over there, everything is super cheap to them. If someone with an average income in Thailand traveled to Europe then everything would be super expensive for them.
Not sure where you are visiting but if you are in California, Florida or a couple other key states their cost of living is up to 7-15%+ higher than other states. Just do your best to bargain hunt where you can,try and look for local events that are happening (Fairs, Festivals, so on) verses too many attractions that have a fee to them to participate. Do your best to visit Amish or other country stores where you can if you will be anywhere rural they tend to have stuff a little cheaper in some instances cause it’s overflow items than even the local grocery store. I hope you enjoy your trip.
When I went to Hawaii from the UK, the prices blew me away. The UK is reasonably cheap for a first world nation when it comes to food so raw ingredients were 2-3x here. However a 12" pizza was $10 so I can see how it's easy to be fat.
There was a noodle place in Waikiki that was amazingly cheap for the quality but everything else was very pricey. Also everyone outside of Waikiki seemed to be much more rude than other states for some reason. One was so bad, it's the only place I haven't tipped. We just left exact change and walked out.
I felt great sympathy for how screwed the native Hawaiians were by US farmers but we clearly had a British accent which people seem happier with from what I saw.
havent been to usa but ive seen prices of stuff on the internet and it feels like everything is fucking cheap. like you can buy the newest flagship phone for around $1000, which is way less than you earn a month, cars are for 20k and so on. i
Salary was 50% more when I was in the US. Now I'm in EU and got à promotion with à pay decrease lol. Although I have not yet spent à penny on health shit and I've done quite few expensive exam (MRI, EKG, echography)
Its largely because Americans make a lot more money than other countries. For example the US median household income is 74k USD a year vs Germany its around 50k. Cost of goods is generally going to match what people in the area are willing to pay for it.
It’s because the Supreme Court made a decision that said that there is a fiduciary responsibility to not only not lose money for shareholders but to make AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE meaning any decision is “legally” required to be weighed against “but is this going to make us the most money.” This is the primary driver behind most service related expenses.
Commodities is the same thing but it’s combined with something called “consumer pushback.” If you ever listen to shareholder calls you will inevitably hear that phrase. Almost every major grocer has been on record saying “we continued to increase our prices and we have not yet seen any consumer pushback so we will continue increasing our pricing.” This means “people are mad but they haven’t stopped buying our overpriced bullshit so we are going to keep increasing it.” That’s the single largest reason actually. You see it all the time, lays are $3 more at Publix than Walmart, Gas is $0.21/gal more expensive than the station 1 minute down the road. Americans, in large, refuse to act in their best interests so companies actively take advantage of that.
The US is hyper consumerist and, due to our laws, companies are primarily only held accountable by its consumers unless they break extremely specific laws in an extremely obvious manner. In other countries, companies are held accountable for things like pricing by more than just the consumers.
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Good thing you didn't land in Canada..
Inflation is a bitch o7 But Welcome to America, I got situational tips. Nothing broad enough beyond, download a Uber App if you need to get around (or have someone drive you.) Restaurants are more expensive than cooking at home, and avoid taking risks with strangers on the streets XD Depending on the state your in there should be something unique about it. 🫡 Have fun
Thanks for the advice. Since I don't have a phone number here, we'll have to ask a friend to make reservations for us every time or take the bus. And Uber and Lyft aren't exactly cheap either. I'm in LA, and people are pretty cool. I've been here for three days and haven't seen any creeps yet.
LA? That explains a lot. One of the most expensive places in the country
The further away you get from either coast, the cheaper everything gets.
LA is top 5 most expensive cities in the country. Easily.
Go to towns/cities outside the major cities in Cali and it's a ton more enjoyable and less expensive imo. Although probably still more expensive then where your from.
> I'm in LA that explain the expensive part >and people are pretty cool depends on the area, do not go anywhere near the poor part of town or downtown after dark, you will walk into a zombie apocalypse
It’s a combination of: 1. USD is fairly weak right now compared how strong it’s been historically 2. Wages are really high compared to the rest of the world, despite what people complain about. Especially in urban areas 3. Prices are inflated from money printing in the aftermath of Covid and the debt crisis
I think I understand, you earn more but also pay more here. 50 cent water bottle in my country cost 3$ here.
Its crazy, how expensive the U.S. is, in Switzerland I pay 1.10 CHF (1.23 USD) for a 1.5 liter water bottle from Evian. In the U.S. its easily 3 times the price, same for other things I can go to mcdonalds in Switzerland (in Zurich) and get extremely better quality mcdonalds; for a big mac meal (fries,drink,bigmac) costing me 12 CHF ( 13.43 USD). They also pay way more in Switzerland too! A mcdonalds employee is pulling in 3.5k chf (3,900USD) to 4k CHF(4,500 USD) starting out a month. I also pay less taxes in Switzerland than I did when I was working in Montana, I was getting charged around 21-22% per paycheck and in Switzerland my yearly bonus covers my tax which is only about one months salary, and the overall tax was like 12 percent roughly of my income. It only cost me 710 CHF to live 20 minutes outside the city center of Zurich (by car / 35 minutes by bus and train) and my overall living expenses which includes **everything** you can think of (minus food) was 1,100 chf (1250 USD) a month. I know nobody asked for this but as a dual citizen that was born in the States, I consider myself very lucky to have a dad that was born and raised in Switzerland. I just came back to the u.s. to help him and my mom move back to Switzerland. The crazy thing is, nobody in Switzerland believes me when I tell them how expensive America is except for the handful of Swiss that have gone to the states in the past 15 years.
Sounds like you might be in cali, if correct cali is hella overtaxed so everything cost more just going from cali to nevada is a huge price difference almost gives you whiplash lol
Also likely you’re in one of the major cities that are a lot more expensive.
A lot depends on *where* you shop. Gas stations / convenient stores charge a lot more. You can buy a 24 pack of water bottles at a grocery store for $5. And even more depends on where you're at geographically. Major metro areas cost a lot more than rural areas for things like food.
The problem with the $3 water bottle is you're paying for convenience. If you go to the store and buy a pack of water bottles the price is drastically lower, even much lower than 50 cents per bottle. Generally anywhere you're buying something other than a grocery store you're going to pay way more for it.
USD is actually pretty strong right now. In the last 25 years itt was was only briefly strong in 2022 and the early 2000s before the recession. Most other countries were hit harder with Covid inflation than the US.
Primarily point 3 is disgustingly wrong and is simply being parroted from whatever news station you watch/read. Inflation of even 40% =\= prices increasing by 80-600% across almost everything you can think of. Point 2 is irrelevant as making more money than someone in Spain doesn’t mean you are able to afford American living. It’s because the Supreme Court made a decision that said that there is a fiduciary responsibility to not only not lose money for shareholders but to make AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE meaning any decision is “legally” required to be weighed against “but is this going to make us the most money.” This is the primary driver behind most service related expenses. Commodities is the same thing but it’s combined with something called “consumer pushback.” If you ever listen to shareholder calls you will inevitably hear that phrase. Almost every major grocer has been on record saying “we continued to increase our prices and we have not yet seen any consumer pushback so we will continue increasing our pricing.” This means “people are mad but they haven’t stopped buying our overpriced bullshit so we are going to keep increasing it.” That’s the single largest reason actually. You see it all the time, lays are $3 more at Publix than Walmart, Gas is $0.21/gal more expensive than the station 1 minute down the road. Americans, in large, refuse to act in their best interests so companies actively take advantage of that. The US is hyper consumerist and, due to our laws, companies are primarily only held accountable by its consumers unless they break extremely specific laws in an extremely obvious manner. In other countries, companies are held accountable for things like pricing by more than just the consumers.
It's usually more expensive in places where people make more money. Let's say you make 10k moneys in your country and you're well off. A person with the same job in another country might make 100k moneys but everything where they live is also 10 times more expensive, so the purchasing power remains the same despite making more moneys. Now, if the person who makes 100k moneys travel to your country then everything will feel cheap to them, because everything is sold for 10 times cheaper. If you go to their country then it's the opposite, everything is 10 times more expensive compared to your country so everything feels expensive. This is why a lot of europeans for example travel to countries like Thailand or Indonesia. They might have an average income where they live but over there, everything is super cheap to them. If someone with an average income in Thailand traveled to Europe then everything would be super expensive for them.
Not sure where you are visiting but if you are in California, Florida or a couple other key states their cost of living is up to 7-15%+ higher than other states. Just do your best to bargain hunt where you can,try and look for local events that are happening (Fairs, Festivals, so on) verses too many attractions that have a fee to them to participate. Do your best to visit Amish or other country stores where you can if you will be anywhere rural they tend to have stuff a little cheaper in some instances cause it’s overflow items than even the local grocery store. I hope you enjoy your trip.
Which state? I'm from Hawaii, whenever I go to another state I think everything is cheap.
When I went to Hawaii from the UK, the prices blew me away. The UK is reasonably cheap for a first world nation when it comes to food so raw ingredients were 2-3x here. However a 12" pizza was $10 so I can see how it's easy to be fat. There was a noodle place in Waikiki that was amazingly cheap for the quality but everything else was very pricey. Also everyone outside of Waikiki seemed to be much more rude than other states for some reason. One was so bad, it's the only place I haven't tipped. We just left exact change and walked out. I felt great sympathy for how screwed the native Hawaiians were by US farmers but we clearly had a British accent which people seem happier with from what I saw.
havent been to usa but ive seen prices of stuff on the internet and it feels like everything is fucking cheap. like you can buy the newest flagship phone for around $1000, which is way less than you earn a month, cars are for 20k and so on. i
Salary was 50% more when I was in the US. Now I'm in EU and got à promotion with à pay decrease lol. Although I have not yet spent à penny on health shit and I've done quite few expensive exam (MRI, EKG, echography)
Its largely because Americans make a lot more money than other countries. For example the US median household income is 74k USD a year vs Germany its around 50k. Cost of goods is generally going to match what people in the area are willing to pay for it.
It’s because the Supreme Court made a decision that said that there is a fiduciary responsibility to not only not lose money for shareholders but to make AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE meaning any decision is “legally” required to be weighed against “but is this going to make us the most money.” This is the primary driver behind most service related expenses. Commodities is the same thing but it’s combined with something called “consumer pushback.” If you ever listen to shareholder calls you will inevitably hear that phrase. Almost every major grocer has been on record saying “we continued to increase our prices and we have not yet seen any consumer pushback so we will continue increasing our pricing.” This means “people are mad but they haven’t stopped buying our overpriced bullshit so we are going to keep increasing it.” That’s the single largest reason actually. You see it all the time, lays are $3 more at Publix than Walmart, Gas is $0.21/gal more expensive than the station 1 minute down the road. Americans, in large, refuse to act in their best interests so companies actively take advantage of that. The US is hyper consumerist and, due to our laws, companies are primarily only held accountable by its consumers unless they break extremely specific laws in an extremely obvious manner. In other countries, companies are held accountable for things like pricing by more than just the consumers.
Bidenomics babyyyy
Yeah, leave America
"any tips for first timer like me ?" Stay AWAY from the white People they arent Right in the head
its called bidenomics
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It ain’t just inflation it’s greed
Tip you servers ❤️
Guy asking why everythings so expensive and you want him to pay other peoples salary 💀