Here is some things to compare This is for the North of England you can add as much as 50% for the south of England. A meal for two in an average restaurant £35.00 A pair of shoes £16 to £70 A 4 oz jar of instant coffee £2.60 A Pint of Beer £1.60 Larger 2.00 A one mile taxi journey £1.70 A one mile Bus journy £0.40 A 200 mile return Train journy £35.00 second class off peak a call out charge for the washing machine man from Norweb (big Company) £70.00 A SAT £1200.00 + VAt @ 17% not too sure on the price but not far out A tuning fork £3.75 A papps wedge £3.00 + Vat 100 hanmer Shanks £9.10 + vat Ready cut damper felts for upright £35.00 + Vat Barrie, In article <19971021.221955.9510.0.rmartin30@juno.com>, ralph m martin <rmartin30@juno.com> writes >list >re: the questions about exchange rate...British and American. > >The exchange rate doesn't really tell you anything because the pound buys >different than the dollar, It's very difficult to relate the two. It's >far more sensible to relate the cost of things like the average pair of >shoes, average meal, cost of the average tuning hammer in pounds so that >you may liken the two in this manner. > I no longer have any idea of what the pound buys in Ireland anymore. >It's been ten years since I've been back, but it must be similar to >England's because we have English and Irish pounds freely circulating. > >Ralph Martin > > > -- Barrie Heaton | Be Environmentally Friendly URL: http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/piano.htm | To Your Neighbour The UK PIano Page | pgp key on request | HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED
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