Brain recalibration - a cost of living/modern life thread
My brain struggles to recalibrate to some prices.
£17 to watch a tribute band in a local bar.
That should be a £5er
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Bikes for £12k like the one I just saw when I picked up my bike. I just dropped less than that on a family car in good nick.
Or 10 speed cassettes for £65.
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Bikes are a great example
Carbon Fibre frame, 105 groupset
In my brain that's a £1000 bike
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£14 for two flat whites and two admittedly very large croissants ar Warwick Street Kitchen in Leamington Spa.
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I'm surprised by that pricing.
Pub meals also surprise me at the moment. They should be £10.
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£ 6.50 for 500ml of EV olive oil, nothing special, supermarket own brand.
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You could have just got Tiagra for £20. And bought the tools to fit it yourself from AliExpress for about £8. If you're buying new old stock Ultegra and getting someone else to fit it it's never going to be cheap.
Bikes seem to have peaked in price and are starting to get some more aggressive discounts apart from the halo S works Dura Ace versions for £12k+ that nobody really needs.
Food on the other hand, especially eating out...
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That'll get you a Pret sandwich and a coffee.
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Went 105 for £30 as that’s what the shop had.
I swear I paid £25 for the Ultegra version 8 years ago.
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I think most of them jacked up their prices just to survive when energy prices went through the roof, and they've not come back down since. Sadly one of the few remaining decent value cooked breakfasts near me has just jacked the price up from £8 to £9.95. Still one of the best breakfasts in these parts, but was surprised.
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Yeah, I replaced the drive chain on the CAAD9 recently (mixture of Tiagra and below), and was actually surprised that prices have eased since the pandemic... enough so that I've since bought another set for the next replacement.
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What I struggle with is 2 thing £6.45 plus for a gallon of petrol and that so called eco friendly petrol cars do roughly the same mpg as cars from 30yrs ago.
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Local Indian takeaways...used to spend 30 quid and get enough for dinner for 2 with lots leftover for the next days lunch.
Now it's 40 and no leftovers ...
On the upside regular business travel to California makes everything else (including French alpine restaurants) seem like good value for money.
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The price indicates that the food is best in California.
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I keep going on about this at home. Sainsbury's Taste the Difference has gone from £4.50 to £9.50 in under 18 months. The Odyssey ev was a fiver and now over £10, and the basic is £6.50 as you say. No justification other than price gouging.
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Climate change taking a hold.
Apparently, when lab tested, loads of these EV olive oils are found to be fake or diluted with other veg oils. Annoying at those prices.
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Didn't Spain have a bloody awful Olive harvest?
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There was a really bad harvest wasn’t there or was that the year before? I remember at the time they were predicting big rises. Drought and the war in Ukraine have had big impacts on quite a bit of produce.
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I find Prets pricing offensive. Used to use them and other 'office lunch' type places quite regularly but mainly bring my own into work these days.
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The avocados are definitely better!
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Went to a gig last night which was £75. My wife’s G&T was £14.
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Yes, guess that must be a large part of it.
Interesting, I hadn't come across this. Sounds a bit similar to the French wine scandals when producers were adding all sorts of stuff to cut costs.
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Definitely part of it, but I just struggle to see this really fully accounting for such huge price increases. Maybe I am being harsh though.
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There was a programme on radio 4 about fake herbs and spices the other day. Lots of stuff from apparently reputable companies is fake.
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Mentioned to my brother that ACDC tickets for Dublin were hitting 420 Euro - standing.
His response,'for 420 Euro, Bon Scott would need to be standing'
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part of the problem in the hospitality sector is the lack of trained and capable staff. I am always staggered by how long it takes these so called baristas to serve a client. In Milan they would serve 10 or 20 in the same time. As a result, businesses employ a lot more staff than they would elsewhere and the costs soar. It’s not uncommon to see 4 people working in a small cafe’, where you can easily see two well trained ones would do just fine.
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It's a tricky thing to go through I do agree, but I think slowly but surely the new higher prices we have now seen for many months are starting to become more normal.
A very nice local pub near me, I now think of as good value, as I get two pints of nice beer/ale in there for LESS than £10.
Other pubs in town are more like £12 or thereabouts - needless to say I avoid wetherspoons.
The other weekend I took my parents to Oxford as they had never been, and were over with us before moving to Spain, and we went to the wonderful Turf Tavern in the centre (As featured in Inspector Morse) and I bought a pint for me, but my Dad only wanted a half. As with these things, you never ask the price, and they don't display them, probably like a lot of pubs, but I realised after looking at the bill later, that a single pint cost £7.
I've noted Cafe's cakes and coffee prices are now also obviously far more than they used to be, but I'd still rather go out less often and support independent business, than go out more frequently to chain places.
Luckily where we live there is a vast array of independent coffee shops and pubs and restaurants.
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Not quite sure how a barista in Milan can get coffee to come out of an espresso machine 10-20 faster than in the UK. Waiting etc. is definitely more of a profession in Europe though rather than something people do to earn a few quid through school or college though.
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It's not so much the time in the machine but the speed prior to, and after the machine.
They also serve other customers while the coffee is in the machine. Whirlwinds.
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I imagine they also sell more espressos and fewer caramel skinny mocha frappachinos (or whatever)
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