$ Money $

So, here i am with another blog.

Money is relative..or not? Since i am going abroad a lot i notice the different way of using/spending money in different countries. In Holland people say everything is expensive, it is..but for example, in slovenia the prices of primary needs (supermarket products) are almost the same price as in The Netherlands but the average paycheck in Slovenia is 600 Euro's and 1800(or more) Euro's in The Netherlands.

Is Holland expensive? no, its not. Our primary needs are not expensive, our luxury (cigarettes,gas,catering industry) needs are expensive. Too expensive, but still these are luxury needs and we have more money for our luxury needs becouse our primary needs are not expensive.

In Holland 2 Euro's for a coffee is normal, in Slovenia 0,80 Euro's is normal.

Sometimes in Holland i get the feeling people ask a prices for luxury needs that are so high, but yet not high enough for consumers to not buy these products. So altough they could decrease the price, they won't becouse people are still buying with high prices, so why lower them?

I've been told that in Macedonia you can buy a gentleman's suit for 50 Euro's but bread and milk are so expensive that people have no spare money left at the end of the month.

The primary needs are expensive and luxury is cheap. This is a big problem, money comes in becouse of the tourists that pay a visit for the cheap luxury, but the inhabitants still don't have enough money for there primary needs so for them even the luxury is expensive.

If only this problem was easy to solve..