Shopping Malls,Stores UK USA?

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:35 pm

Let us compare store prices in your area? From electric goods, food, clothes, house prices ect ect.

A good computer in Southern Ireland will cost from 700 euro to 1,400 euros

mominiowa · Post by **mominiowa** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:40 pm

We just bought a house in a smaller area of Iowa - It has 3 bedrooms up- 2 down / 3 bath....It was built in 1983 and it cost $112,000 ~ but we had to put in a new furnance, central air, water heater - and stuff like that.....Corner lot too!!

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:42 pm

mominiowa wrote: We just bought a house in a smaller area of Iowa - It has 3 bedrooms up- 2 down / 3 bath....It was built in 1983 and it cost $112,000 ~ but we had to put in a new furnance, central air, water heater - and stuff like that.....Corner lot too!! :)house prices in Southern Ireland. www.myhome.ie

mominiowa · Post by **mominiowa** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:42 pm

We just got a new computer for the kids and it was 650$ very basic..

Hey Capt.. Don't laugh - a euro is equal to our dollar? or more? I can't remember........

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:44 pm

mominiowa wrote: We just got a new computer for the kids and it was 650$ very basic..

Hey Capt.. Don't laugh - a euro is equal to our dollar? or more? I can't remember........it hops about so much. check at yahoo or msn

mominiowa · Post by **mominiowa** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:47 pm

Ohhh man I found one!! I am moving today! 8 bedrooms and a lovely area...WOW! So how much is {900,000?

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:48 pm

I bought a 100+ year old abobe for $90,000 - with an acre - had to gut it - spent $115,00 in renovation and now have a very cool house.

A good computer goes for $750.00. How does that translate to Euro? I don't know the exchange rate?

Gasoline is $2.14 a gallon

Milk is $2.69 a gallon

Beer is $2.48 a gallon

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:51 pm

nvalleyvee wrote: I bought a 100+ year old abobe for $90,000 - with an acre - had to gut it - spent $115,00 in renovation and now have a very cool house.

A good computer goes for $750.00. How does that translate to Euro? I don't know the exchange rate?

Gasoline is $2.14 a gallon

Milk is $2.69 a gallon

Beer is $2.48 a gallonI don't have the rate either. Call on the admins. Or go to your local bank online

BTS · Post by **BTS** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:51 pm

mominiowa wrote: Ohhh man I found one!! I am moving today! 8 bedrooms and a lovely area...WOW! So how much is {900,000?
here is a converter

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:54 pm

BTS wrote: here is a converterThanks BTS

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:55 pm

Thanks BTS

1 Euro == 1.26 dollars

1 US == 0.79 Euro

I'm coming across the pond to buy stuff.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:56 pm

We have to pay 67euros to get Ã‚£100 sterling:-1

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:58 pm

capt_buzzard wrote: We have to pay 67euros to get Ã‚£100 sterling:-1

sooo that's a 2/3 exchange rate.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:59 pm

Shopping for food stores here. TESCO www.tesco.ie/

BTS · Post by **BTS** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:07 pm

Cap Buzzard...........

Is this so about the taxes?

I hope not for your sake........

May 2005: 28% of the price of an Irish house is Tax The Minister for Finance Brian Cowen said in a reply to a parliamentary question that more than quarter of the price of a new house goes to the Government in the form of tax. Mr. Cowen told Paul McGrath, TD. that 28% of the price was accounted for by VAT and stamp duty.

"This means that for a Ã¢š¬300,000 house, Ã¢š¬84,000 of the price is tax," Mr McGrath said. "The share of total Exchequer finances deriving from the new home market has increased from 3% to 9% in the last seven years. This is totally irresponsible and morally wrong," Mr McGrath added.

Budget figures published on November 26, 2004, show that Government expects to collect over Ã¢š¬2bn in stamp duty this year, most of it from house purchases, and is anticipating a 4.5% rise in stamp revenues next year.

Irish House Prices in April 2005

Latest permanent tsb / ESRI House price index shows national house prices rose by 1.3% in the four months to April - less than half the growth seen last year.

55% of First Time Buyers are buying older houses.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:09 pm

BTS wrote: Cap Buzzard...........

Is this so about the taxes?

I hope not for your sake........

May 2005: 28% of the price of an Irish house is Tax The Minister for Finance Brian Cowen said in a reply to a parliamentary question that more than quarter of the price of a new house goes to the Government in the form of tax. Mr. Cowen told Paul McGrath, TD. that 28% of the price was accounted for by VAT and stamp duty.

"This means that for a Ã¢š¬300,000 house, Ã¢š¬84,000 of the price is tax," Mr McGrath said. "The share of total Exchequer finances deriving from the new *****market has increased from 3% to 9% in the last seven years. This is totally irresponsible and morally wrong," Mr McGrath added.

Budget figures published on November 26, 2004, show that Government expects to collect over Ã¢š¬2bn in stamp duty this year, most of it from house purchases, and is anticipating a 4.5% rise in stamp revenues next year.

Irish House Prices in April 2005

Latest permanent tsb / ESRI House price index shows national house prices rose by 1.3% in the four months to April - less than half the growth seen last year.

55% of First Time Buyers are buying older houses.

WOW BTS. Your doing it better.

Philadelphia Eagle · Post by **Philadelphia Eagle** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:55 pm

For common comsumer durables etc. you will pay around double the price in UK that you pay in USA.

Three main reasons:

1. much larger overall market in USA

2. much lower taxes in USA

3. more competition in USA

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:50 am

nvalleyvee wrote:

Beer is $2.48 a gallon
I think I need to move to New Mexico. You can buy beer by the gallon????!!?

Sa--weeeet!

john8pies · Post by **john8pies** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:52 am

Originally Posted by nvalleyvee

I bought a 100+ year old abobe for $90,000 - with an acre - had to gut it - spent $115,00 in renovation and now have a very cool house.

A good computer goes for $750.00. How does that translate to Euro? I don't know the exchange rate?

Gasoline is $2.14 a gallon

Milk is $2.69 a gallon

Beer is $2.48 a gallon

REPLY: : A decent sort of computer about Ã‚£650; petrol ("gas") about Ã‚£4.80 per gallon; milk about 25pence a pint and beer about Ã‚£2.50 a pint in pubs or half that in supermarkets. All prices subject to regional variations (dearer in big cities or remote villages), special offers and the like. House prices vary enormously from about Ã‚£50000 for a `bottom of the range in a not very nice place` to Ã‚£5 million for `rich types`` mansions and even higher, particularly subject to regional variations. Bus and train fares seem very dear when compared to the rest of Europe.

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:55 am

here in the bustling metropolis of Des Moines, Iowa gas is a bargain at $1.829 a gallon

Farm ground in Guthrie County(44 miles east), where the family farm is, is going for $3300 an acre.

Lots(without a house) out at the Pseudo-resort of Lake Panorama near my folks are going for $55,000. if you want to be ON the lake: $70-80,000.

Just for the land to build the house on.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Tue May 31, 2005 7:36 am

Cigarettes in UK are nearly Ã‚£5 per pack about 9 US Dollars!

Bothwell · Post by **Bothwell** » Tue May 31, 2005 7:51 am

Dont do this to yourselves people, we will all be emigrating to the USA, last time I was there I looked at some properties in LC's local paper and you can get one on the beach for Ã‚£200,000 that is the price of a 2 bedroom appartment near me. Plus which they are enormous compared to ours.

Cars are ludicrously cheap as is food and drink petrol etc.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Tue May 31, 2005 7:57 am

Bothwell wrote: Dont do this to yourselves people, we will all be emigrating to the USA, last time I was there I looked at some properties in LC's local paper and you can get one on the beach for Ã‚£200,000 that is the price of a 2 bedroom appartment near me. Plus which they are enormous compared to ours.

Cars are ludicrously cheap as is food and drink petrol etc.sandie just sold her beach house first day on the market. half a million. but that place you and i liked was one million. i still think of you shooting off the cannon.LOL

Bothwell · Post by **Bothwell** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:18 am

Of course there is also the brilliant fashion chain Wal-Mart, I will shop nowhere else although I hear rumours of a mythical shangri-la called K Mart

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:20 am

Bothwell wrote: Of course there is also the brilliant fashion chain Wal-Mart, I will shop nowhere else although I hear rumours of a mythical shangri-la called K Martwe're not going there again.i have other plans for you.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:27 am

lady cop wrote: we're not going there again.i have other plans for you.NOT THE SILKY-SUPER-SPANDEX-STORE?:eek: :wah: :wah:

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:39 am

capt_buzzard wrote: Let us compare store prices in your area? From electric goods, food, clothes, house prices ect ect.

A good computer in Southern Ireland will cost from 700 euro to 1,400 euros
I just bought a new laptop computer, 80 GB, 512 MB SDRAM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM for $1,000 U.S.

Median home prices in California have now gone to $500,000.

Bought a bottle of a good New Zealand wine by Villa Maria. It's a Reisling 2004 and I paid $9.00 for it. That's about a third less than I paid for the same wine in New Zealand, and that's taking the exchange rate into consideration.

Bought a couple of chickens on sale (plucked) for 59 cents a pound.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:56 am

Average house prices in Maryland are around $150,000 for 4-5 bedrooms, 2-3 baths...mine has 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 kitchens, an acre of land.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:49 pm

abbey wrote: Cigarettes in UK are nearly Ã‚£5 per pack about 9 US Dollars!They are 7euros here.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:50 pm

chonsigirl wrote: Average house prices in Maryland are around $150,000 for 4-5 bedrooms, 2-3 baths...mine has 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 kitchens, an acre of land.I'm moving to Maryland. www.myhome.ie

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:07 pm

chonsigirl wrote: Average house prices in Maryland are around $150,000 for 4-5 bedrooms, 2-3 baths...mine has 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 kitchens, an acre of land.ACK! Equivalent of that in my area wouldn't be $150,000, it'd be

1.5 MILLION!!

An ACRE of land? FUHGEDDABOUTIT!!

:yh_doh

David813 · Post by **David813** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:49 pm

Things are fairly cheap here. Most clothing/electronics/etc come from Bangladesh, El Salvador, Haiti and Honduras. The companies were no longer willing to pay union wages. So yes! Things in the US are cheap, and foreign. Cars are next. GM is already making plans to open a plant in Nicaragua! Where they have no safety standards to be bothered by and most of all; CHEAP LABOR and NO benefits!!! Hail to the Stockholder!!!!

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:12 am

David813 wrote: Things are fairly cheap here. Most clothing/electronics/etc come from Bangladesh, El Salvador, Haiti and Honduras. The companies were no longer willing to pay union wages. So yes! Things in the US are cheap, and foreign. Cars are next. GM is already making plans to open a plant in Nicaragua! Where they have no safety standards to be bothered by and most of all; CHEAP LABOR and NO benefits!!! Hail to the Stockholder!!!!Yeah. MG Rover is gone to China. Some Irish & English firms have gone to Eastern Europe. Talk about employment at home. Bloody Unions.Should be taken out and shot:-5

David813 · Post by **David813** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:41 pm

capt_buzzard wrote: Yeah. MG Rover is gone to China. Some Irish & English firms have gone to Eastern Europe. Talk about employment at home. Bloody Unions.Should be taken out and shot:-5Without unions the corporations would have us living like the Congolese in no time! Bloody capitalists is the correct term here. Lower wages = PROFIT=non-union labor at 3rd World wages. Business proved their true colors at the turn of the 20th century factories that had working men & women reduced to slaves.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:48 pm

David813 wrote: Without unions the corporations would have us living like the Congolese in no time! Bloody capitalists is the correct term here. Lower wages = PROFIT=non-union labor at 3rd World wages. Business proved their true colors at the turn of the 20th century factories that had working men & women reduced to slaves.That might happen in the US.But not here.

David813 · Post by **David813** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:49 pm

capt_buzzard wrote: That might happen in the US.But not here.Thanks to socialist restraints on the profiteers.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:56 pm

David813 wrote: Thanks to socialist restraints on the profiteers.It works.

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:57 pm

David813 wrote: Without unions the corporations would have us living like the Congolese in no time! Bloody capitalists is the correct term here. Lower wages = PROFIT=non-union labor at 3rd World wages. Business proved their true colors at the turn of the 20th century factories that had working men & women reduced to slaves.

I worked for a corporation that was not union but paid a good wage and excellent health care and retirement benefits. I paid $40.00 every 2 weeks for health insurance and in 1 year required $45,000.00 in medical care. My deductible was $1,000.00. The way I figure it - I earned an extra $44,000.00 that year. I do not understand your constant griping about living in the US except that you must think you are worth more than you are earning. It comes to mind that you don't even give your employer your full attention because you use their company computer to conduct personal business. Perhaps you are only paid what you are worth.

David813 · Post by **David813** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:02 pm

nvalleyvee wrote: I worked for a corporation that was not union but paid a good wage and excellent health care and retirement benefits. I paid $40.00 every 2 weeks for health insurance and in 1 year required $45,000.00 in medical care. My deductible was $1,000.00. The way I figure it - I earned an extra $44,000.00 that year. I do not understand your constant griping about living in the US except that you must think you are worth more than you are earning. It comes to mind that you don't even give your employer your full attention because you use their company computer to conduct personal business. Perhaps you are only paid what you are worth.Your personal concerns about how I spend my time at work is amusing! Good for you and your great work experience! I'd have a drink if I could! My job is union and I make about what you did. My medical deduct is $10. Union dues are $32 a month. I'm happy with my union job, though it is deathly boring. People with your philosophy would export my job to India. Who's the most patriotic here?

David813 · Post by **David813** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:03 pm

capt_buzzard wrote: It works.We'll see the Yanks convinced soon enough!

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:03 pm

David813 wrote: We'll see the Yanks convinced soon enough!I very much doubt that:D

David813 · Post by **David813** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:06 pm

capt_buzzard wrote: I very much doubt that:DWe shall see won't we! We are vigorously defending our social security system from being devoured by Wall Street carnivores, thanx to our allustrious President and his investors!

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:19 pm

David813 wrote: We shall see won't we! We are vigorously defending our social security system from being devoured by Wall Street carnivores, thanx to our allustrious President and his investors!You have another few years of Bushy Wushy Times

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:29 pm

David813 wrote: Your personal concerns about how I spend my time at work is amusing! Good for you and your great work experience! I'd have a drink if I could! My job is union and I make about what you did. My medical deduct is $10. Union dues are $32 a month. I'm happy with my union job, though it is deathly boring. People with your philosophy would export my job to India. Who's the most patriotic here?

EXCUSE MEEEEE. I disliked my job too. They never impoted from another country - they could have - they never hired non-English speaking personnel - they could have. They never exported labor to another country. There are many US corporations that are good to their employees. Why do you so like to disagree with everything? Maybe your life is too boring at work? You don't have a home computer - so this is how you pass your time on union wages - being disgruntled with the very people who pay your wages while you F*** Off at work?.

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:32 pm

David813 wrote: We shall see won't we! We are vigorously defending our social security system from being devoured by Wall Street carnivores, thanx to our allustrious President and his investors!

So how old are you? I too thought I would not get my SS benefits. I'm so close that I finally realized I too will be a bebfactor - even when I thought the system was DOOMED 20 years ago. Go figure democracy.

David813 · Post by **David813** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:19 pm

nvalleyvee wrote: EXCUSE MEEEEE. I disliked my job too. They never impoted from another country - they could have - they never hired non-English speaking personnel - they could have. They never exported labor to another country. There are many US corporations that are good to their employees. Why do you so like to disagree with everything? Maybe your life is too boring at work? You don't have a home computer - so this is how you pass your time on union wages - being disgruntled with the very people who pay your wages while you F*** Off at work?.You got it Rosie!

David813 · Post by **David813** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:22 pm

nvalleyvee wrote: So how old are you? I too thought I would not get my SS benefits. I'm so close that I finally realized I too will be a bebfactor - even when I thought the system was DOOMED 20 years ago. Go figure democracy.I'll be 42 in August. System isn't doomed. A month of Iraq would pay every North American benefits for 10 years. Go figure!

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:28 pm

David813 wrote: I'll be 42 in August. System isn't doomed. A month of Iraq would pay every North American benefits for 10 years. Go figure!

So stop your bitchin -- raspberries to you :p