[Cantankerous]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

Seriously, compared with London that's a steal

rob, he's right.

what will $670,000 get me in houston, rob?

[TheMadcapLaughs]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Is it true that all the inhabitants of San Francisco like the bum?

yes, that is very much a fact. you have to, for the sake of harmony.

[Rob Instigator]

In Houston, you can get this

 

or this

 

or this

 

or this

 

[Rob Instigator]

compared to London anywhere but NYC will be cheap, of course. london is dense

[Cantankerous]

new york is way cheaper than london.

[TheMadcapLaughs]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

710 ashbury
the jefferson airplane lived somewhere around there too
amoeba music is awesome

yeah amoeba is a dangerous place to go when you don't have any money.

[demonrail666]

If you can get that for $400, I'm just wondering what's wrong with Houston!

[TheMadcapLaughs]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

400 for a ROOM?
a fucking ROOM?

that shit is EXPENSIVE

haha, im not just confined to my room. my roomates allow me access to the living room, hallway, and when im really good, even the bathroom.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

new york is way cheaper than london.

Thank you. People argue with me about this all the time. Even if you paid the same in rent (which is unlikely unless you were in a more central part of Manhattan) the sheer difference in cost of living makes London FAR more expensive than New York.

A room, not a flat, a ROOM in London will put you back easily £500/$800-1000 - and we're talking the most basic room, in the least desirable area.

Weekly travel if you're working will be around £30/$50.

Food is roughly double the price here that it is in the US.

And it just goes on and on.

Unless you're on social benefit, I don't see how anyone could possibly live in London on anything less than around £800-1000/$1800 a month. and that would mean living so basically you could hardly afford to go to a pub once a week.

For that you'd be lucky to have somewhere looking like this:

 

and you'd probably be eating a lot of this towards the final third of each month:

 

I'm renting out the rooms of the house where I live for my landlord. He asked, take a big breath, for someone to pay £ 460.00 per calendar month for a single room that is reaaaaaaallllllyyyyy tiny, like a shoe box. I convinced him to put the rent down 'cause I was finding it difficult to get tennents prepared to pay that sort of money for ONE single room of that size.

[Cantankerous]

you do not even want to know how much i'm going to be paying for this flat. out the ass. granted it's huge but i was like

Rent and travel are the two very expensive things in London. Food and clothes are failry cheap, depending on your style and wallet you can get by decorously.

[demonrail666]

Unless you're buying bargain brands from supermarkets, I think food is outrageously expensive in England, at least compared with the US. And the standard of food when you eat out, unless you're willing to pay top prices, is pretty awful. I don't mean to sound like I'm just sitting here putting England down, but when it comes to value for money it's like shooting ducks in a barrel - with a bloody expensive gun.

Edit: Anyway, sorry, this thread was meant to be about San Francisco.

[Rob Instigator]

what about drugs?

hydro weed for example

My friend once went to Iowa with a pound of regular mexican weed and would sell dime bag amounts to people there for $40-$50!!!! ha ha! that is crazy to me!

I know a 1/4 oz of kind goes for hundreds in NYC, whereas it is just $100 here in H Town.

How is it in London? You guys get hash in from the middle east right?

[demonrail666]

Decent weed in London is around £20-25 for an 1/8th, so around the same as you'd pay where you are. Hash is usually less.

[Cantankerous]

make friends with your dealer.
ps who the fuck pays $100 for a quarter? not me. that's some balllllllls. i can get a fkn ounce for $200 and i don't smoke shit weed, EVER.

[Rob Instigator]

but I don;t make kissy faces with my dealer!

[Cantankerous]

i don't either you fuckwit.

I disagree about the food thing. There are plenty of good restaurants around where you can have a decent meal for a set-course price of around £ 20.00 (starter and main course), excluding drinks. There is also a huge variety of cousines to sample from. Supermarkets aren't that bad, they try to up the standards all the time.

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

i don't either you fuckwit.

But I don't threaten my "connect" with griveous bodily harm!

(I meant nothing lewd by the previous. It came off osunding wrong. sorry)