RE: The Cost Of Dating (was: RE: Europe, the US, and Environmentalism )

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

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> Van: Marvin Long, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Onderwerp: Re: The Cost Of Dating (was: RE: Europe, the US, and
> Environmentalism )

> Addendum:
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> I found a web site that gives the exchange rate for US$ to NLG$ as
> US$1 = NLG$2.4.

Huh, new currency? NLG$? What is that? Dutch dollars?   :-)


> So, our US $60 saturday date would come out at NLG $144, and that's
> without booze.  It sounds like dating is more expensive in the US,
> assuming our choice of restaurants is roughly equivalent.

Problem is, you cannot just slap the exchange rate on it and draw
conclusions from the outcome. You must see the prices as relative to income.

Jan Modaal (Joe Average's Dutch cousin) earns some NLG 35,000 per year.
IIRC, Joe Average's income is some USD 35,000 per year (give or take a few
thousand dollars). So, if a movie ticket will cost NLG 16 here and USD 7 on
your side of the Atlantic, going to the movies is roughly twice as expensive
for me as it is for you when you see the costs as a percentage of income.

Your dinner for two cost you some USD 45, while dinner for two here would
cost me roughly NLG 100. Seen as percentage of income, going out to dinner
is more expensive for me than it is for you.


Jeroen

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