[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Ellen

I just want to hug them and teleport them to the Sicilian street cleaner who has 25 mussels, 10 cherry tomatoes, and a packet of spaghetti for 60 pence, and knocks out the most amazing pasta.

I would love to be able to buy 25 mussels, 10 cherry tomatoes & a packet of spaghetti for 60p in this country!
The only thing you might get for 60p or less is the pasta so his comparison is silly.

Yeah, bit of a stupid comparison really. In pretty much every other country (or maybe all of them..not sure) most things are so much cheaper than they are here..so obviously the cost of living will be lower. Their wages tend to be lower too though, so it does even itself out. But its not fair to compare our prices to theirs really..without addressing this

When I lived in greece, a weeks shopping (including fags) cost me about a tenner. Here, its pushing £50. Mind my wages were 600 euro per month. Which was about £400 or so.