NationStates Jolt Archive

Ok, here's the plan. You lot all go out and find a roughly average price in your area for globally available products. For example, a bottle of Coke. You post the prices here, in your own currency and in sterling (just to make things easy for me), and then we see what areas of the world are getting ripped off.
Here's a small list to begin with, but feel free to add more - but please make sure they're available pretty much worldwide. There's not much point in an American telling the world the price of something only available in America, now, is there?
So:
A bottle of Coke (500 ml) (82p)
The new Harry Potter book (reccommended retail price or the lowest you can find, but tell us which) (£16.99 (rrp), £6.99 (lowest))
A pint (or half litre) of a popular lager...Stella, Budweiser, something like that (£1.70)
Loaf of bread (79p)
Pint (half litre) of milk (38p)
The prices in brackets are the ones that I've found in my area (south east England).

Ok, here's the plan. You lot all go out and find a roughly average price in your area for globally available products. For example, a bottle of Coke. You post the prices here, in your own currency and in sterling (just to make things easy for me), and then we see what areas of the world are getting ripped off.
Here's a small list to begin with, but feel free to add more - but please make sure they're available pretty much worldwide. There's not much point in an American telling the world the price of something only available in America, now, is there?
So:
A bottle of Coke (500 ml) (82p)
The new Harry Potter book (reccommended retail price or the lowest you can find, but tell us which) (£16.99 (rrp), £6.99 (lowest))
A pint (or half litre) of a popular lager...Stella, Budweiser, something like that (£1.70)
Loaf of bread (79p)
Pint (half litre) of milk (38p)
The prices in brackets are the ones that I've found in my area (south east England).
Coke(500ml)- 80p
Larry Snotter-£9
Loaf o' bread-85p
Pint o' milk-I own a cow
A house- 200K

Coke: 99 US cents
Perry Trotter: $14.99 US
Tasty, tasty beer: $1.50 US
Gallon of Milk: 99 US cents Pint of Milk: about 12 US cents
A new house: anywhere from $100,000 US (single story ranch) to $350,000 (really big double story colonial, finished basement)

Reporting in from Northeast Ohio

The Hamburger Standard (based on Dec 16, 2004 BigMac Prices)

http://www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml

Snippet:
Country, BigMac Price, (Actual Exchange Rate), 1 USD = Over(+) / Under(-) Valuation against the dollar, % Purchasing Power Price
United States $3.00 (3.00)
Britain £1.99 3.4579 (1.7376‡) 14.6829 0.66 (‡ = Dollars per pound)
Canada C$3.20 2.6253 (1.2189) -12.2159 1.07
Euro area €2.80 3.3776 (0.829) 12.1834 0.93
Russia Rouble41.50 1.4452 (28.715) -51.837 13.83

Big Mac attack? Go to Russia! You can buy two in Moscow for the price of one in Memphis!!

So:
A bottle of Coke (500 ml) (82p)
The new Harry Potter book (reccommended retail price or the lowest you can find, but tell us which) (£16.99 (rrp), £6.99 (lowest))
A pint (or half litre) of a popular lager...Stella, Budweiser, something like that (£1.70)
Loaf of bread (79p)
Pint (half litre) of milk (38p)
The prices in brackets are the ones that I've found in my area (south east England).

Bridgeport/New Haven, CT:
A bottle of Coke (500 ml) $1.00
The new Harry Potter book (reccommended retail price or the lowest you can find, but tell us which) $16.20 at Barnes & Noble
A pint (or half litre) of a popular lager...Guiness $2.00; $3.50/quart at Gippers in Milford, CT.
Loaf of bread $1.79
Pint (half litre) of milk $1.19

Coke: 70p
Harry Potter: Rrp 16.99, Cheapest 9.99
Pint: £1.70
Milk: 38p
Bread: 85p
House: Around £200,000 to £2,000,000 in my area.

From: London.

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

A bottle of Coke (500 ml) Does not exist here. We have 330ml (R$0.70 - 13p) cans or 2000 ml bottles (R$1.40 - 27p).
The new Harry Potter book Not published here yet. It is due out in December. There is no RRP system here.
A pint (or half litre) of a popular lager R$1.25 (25p)
Loaf of bread R$1.79 (35p)
Pint (half litre) of milk Not available. Milk is sold in litres 1L = R$1,35 (26p)

However you have to look at income as well as at prices. What is the minimum wage in your country.
Here it is R$330 per month = +/- R$2.10/hour = 41p / hour

Coke: about EUR 1.5 per l
Harry potter:EUR 22,50
Beer e.g. Becks: crate of beer EUR 12,99 (24 x 0.33l)
in restaurant EUR 2.50 (0.33l)
(one of the expenciv ones but gettable in many countries )
Milk: < EUR 1,0 per l
loaf of bread: think about EUR 6 per kg (depends extremely on the sort of bread)
prefabricated house: EUR 200.000,00 without building ground (will be anathoer EUR 500.000,00(at least))

cigaret pack: EUR 4 nearly all sorts
1l baccardi rum EUR 13,99
scoop of ice cream: EUR 1,00

region: Bavaria near munich airport

Coke: 47p
Harry Potter: Rrp 19.59
Pint: £1.57
Milk 2L: 98p
Bread: 39p
House: starting from 49k GBP

From: Christchurch, NZ

Coke: $.99
Harry Potter: $22.49 on sale, $29.99 MSRP
Beer: ~ $2.50
Milk: $1.99
Bread: ~ $2.50
Houses: $230,000 - >$5 million (the condos are cheaper, but no one buys them, so that doesn't matter)

Parker, Colorado here.