Just How Expensive is London Now?
Feb 17th, 2007, 10:21 PM
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If you think you are badly off with the US dollar against the pound try doing it all on NZ dollars. Our exchange rate has to be one of the worst anywhere. For that reason I for one will not be including the UK in my next trip to Europe, Paris for us is a better deal than London with the euros and give me Paris every time. On second thoughts come down here to New Zealand and experience an even better deal for your US dollar, they go far in this part of the world.
Feb 18th, 2007, 01:18 AM
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>>>>>
What central London pub is offering a pint for 2.80, I'd like to find it next time I'm in London.
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it's not one pub...it's just about all of them.
clubs, hotels/room service, restaurants, bars excluded...they often charge more than this...but this is standard for a top pint in a london pub.
What central London pub is offering a pint for 2.80, I'd like to find it next time I'm in London.
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it's not one pub...it's just about all of them.
clubs, hotels/room service, restaurants, bars excluded...they often charge more than this...but this is standard for a top pint in a london pub.
Feb 18th, 2007, 05:36 AM
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Here's a decent site for a number of London's best pubs. On each one you can click and see at the bottom their price for a pint. While a couple have tops of up to 5 pounds, many of them have a top range of 2.50 to 2.90.
http://www.londontown.com/London/London_Best_Pubs
http://www.londontown.com/London/London_Best_Pubs
Feb 19th, 2007, 10:21 PM
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ecoloney:
150% import duty? Have you been to some secret London in a parallel universe somewhere?
For everything made by the 600 million people in Western Europe and Turkey, import duty into Britain is zero. Ditto almost everything made by the billion or two people in the world's 90 poorest countries.
From the rest of the world - typically import duty is half or less the level imposed by the world's most insular and isolationist society, the protectionism obsessed United States.
We invented free trade. We remain committed to it. America might try experimenting with it for a day or two.
You might find practising what you preach is even in your own interests.
150% import duty? Have you been to some secret London in a parallel universe somewhere?
For everything made by the 600 million people in Western Europe and Turkey, import duty into Britain is zero. Ditto almost everything made by the billion or two people in the world's 90 poorest countries.
From the rest of the world - typically import duty is half or less the level imposed by the world's most insular and isolationist society, the protectionism obsessed United States.
We invented free trade. We remain committed to it. America might try experimenting with it for a day or two.
You might find practising what you preach is even in your own interests.
Feb 20th, 2007, 03:21 AM
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<<< That's flat out hogwash. >>>
True, the US doesn't practice overt protectionism, they just cry "National Security" whenever Johnny Foreigner tries to buy companies in the US
True, the US doesn't practice overt protectionism, they just cry "National Security" whenever Johnny Foreigner tries to buy companies in the US
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