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Donniedillon (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 15:29:09 Ngày 07 tháng 6 năm 2011
Here in the US we have similar stores (Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Family Dollar, etc.) though not all of the stores actually limit prices to $1.00. I live in a very small town (we literally don't even have a stop light)but you better believe that we have a dollar-store. Maybe one day I will open up a Specmil-vendejo to cater to all of my frugal amikoj
geo63 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 16:26:58 Ngày 07 tháng 6 năm 2011
sudanglo:It's a strange situation, in which you can buy a pair of reading glasses for £1 in Poundland, but pay £20 quid in Boots the chemist just a few shops away in the same street.I paid 40 pounds (200 zł, 1 pound = 5 zł) for my glasses here in Poland. So glasses-to-glasses ratio in Poland and UK is as 40:20 = 2 to 1. Our salaries are three to four times lower. 200 zł is 1/10 of my salary.
Miland (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 18:15:42 Ngày 07 tháng 6 năm 2011
Donniedillon:.. I did spend LOTS of time at Oxfam thoughNow you mention it, when I was on holiday in Manhattan I was surprised to find that there were no Oxfam shops there. It may be that they can often only make enough profit to survive in suburbs. The branch in Oxford was alive the last time I visited there a few years ago, and in Birmingham there are no less than two branches in the high street in Harborne (a suburb a few miles South-West of the city centre), but the branch in the city center and even the branch on the University of Warwick campus closed down a few years ago.
ceigered (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 04:31:50 Ngày 08 tháng 6 năm 2011
geo63:Blimey, in Australia that's (2000 zł) about $695 (granted the price of living here is greater too, but with job assistance and rent assistance at once you can get close to $12000 (35000 zł?) per year I believe (you'd have to be actually looking for a job or studying though, and most would go straight into rent and utilities leaving you with probably 5-10 dollars a day which isn't astounding).sudanglo:It's a strange situation, in which you can buy a pair of reading glasses for £1 in Poundland, but pay £20 quid in Boots the chemist just a few shops away in the same street.I paid 40 pounds (200 zł, 1 pound = 5 zł) for my glasses here in Poland. So glasses-to-glasses ratio in Poland and UK is as 40:20 = 2 to 1. Our salaries are three to four times lower. 200 zł is 1/10 of my salary.
Out of curiousity, in Poland are there many homeless people? Or do most people have homes, just barely any money to live on? In the US and Australia and other heavily urbanised nations, it seems like there are more homeless people than other countries, because even if people are poor here, there's rarely a traditional family house to live in (unless the family isn't poor, in which case then the poor person probably isn't poor themself, or they have welfare like mentioned before).
3rdblade (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 08:12:43 Ngày 08 tháng 6 năm 2011
SF is also a great city for strolling.
erinja (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 08:36:06 Ngày 08 tháng 6 năm 2011
Miland:Now you mention it, when I was on holiday in Manhattan I was surprised to find that there were no Oxfam shops there.Charity shops in the US are not found on the high streets of major cities anywhere near as often they are in the UK. And you don't see them for every charity under the sun. I visited Edinburgh last year, and I couldn't believe how many charity shops there were!
I've never seen an Oxfam shop in the US, and I wouldn't expect to find a charity shop anywhere in Manhattan (though I suppose there must be one somewhere). In the regions of the US where I've lived, the two main ones that you see are Goodwill and the Salvation Army. There are a couple of others that I've seen around, but those are the big ones.
geo63:I paid 40 pounds (200 zł, 1 pound = 5 zł) for my glasses here in Poland.Geo63, I think you aren't talking about the same kind of glasses. You are talking about prescription glasses, I believe. That is, you had your eyes examined and they created lenses especially for you, and put them in frames that you chose. Is that correct?
The glasses that can be bought for a pound are ready-made. You pick a pair off the shelf and buy it. You choose a pair based on the magnification level marked on the lens; you do not have an exam of your eyesight. They do not precisely correct your vision like custom-made eyeglasses do.
sudanglo (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 09:06:20 Ngày 08 tháng 6 năm 2011
Miland (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 09:45:01 Ngày 08 tháng 6 năm 2011
sudanglo:Hold your horses Miland - reading glasses are for the long-sighted.That's an eye-opener for me!
geo63 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 15:07:24 Ngày 08 tháng 6 năm 2011
ceigered:...Out of curiousity, in Poland are there many homeless people? Or do most people have homes, just barely any money to live on? ...Hey, Poland is not that bad. There are homeless people, but not many of them = they are not so seen at streets, perhaps in bigger cities on train stations you can meet them. Most people live in their homes. If you have work, then you may survive at some level. But we have cell phones (each member of my family has one, children included), cable TV, cars (some have more than one), computers (I have PC, my children have laptop), internet, health insurance, some medicines refunded (not all, only those very important like insuline), free education, and so on. The main problem with Poland is that we had war, which devastated people and land and after the war we were left behind by western countries (England, France, US) and fall into comunist regime for 45 years. It is only now, when Poland rebuilds, and we do this fast.
As for my glasses : they were for computer work with filters - my school refunded the costs - as a computer science teacher I have right to get free computer glasses every two years.
Actually I earn 4600 zł a month, but half of this pay is taken away for taxes, insurances, and I am left with 2200 zł = $900. (of course I work privately elsewhere and gain another 2000 zł a month, a man must take care of himself).
Akibaaa (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 15:30:18 Ngày 08 tháng 6 năm 2011
geo63:But we have cell phones (each member of my family has one, children included), cable TV, cars (some have more than one), computers (I have PC, my children have laptop), internet, health insurance, some medicines refunded (not all, only those very important like insuline), free education, and so on.Vi forgesis aldoni, ke lastatempe oni lanĉis ankaŭ kurantan akvon.