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Worse. Food have become more expensive although prices rise slowed down. Many clothing brands have left and replaced with brands from Turkey etc. But we are not

by yurish 4y ago

Worse. Food have become more expensive although prices rise slowed down. Many clothing brands have left and replaced with brands from Turkey etc. But we are not starving, have gas, electricity.

pokepim 4y ago
Well sounds like many parts of EU then. In Netherlands restaurant prices have gone up 20-30% this year. When visiting Poland I have seen food prices to be as high or even higher than in Netherlands while they earn 3 or 4 times less on average. It used to be cheap to go to Poland but this year quite crazy. I feel bad for them, looks like their government really fucked up, also the sanctions are backfiring badly over there
- PartiallyTyped 4y ago
  And that's not even the whole story. As an SDE, after taxes, SS (that I will not ever use), and rent+utils, I am left with 750 euro of disposable income. My effective taxrate is 38%. To have the same taxrate in Denmark you'd have to earn around 650k DKK, so close to 80K euro, not the 36k I am earning.
  - badpun 4y ago
    > To have the same taxrate in Denmark you'd have to earn around 650k DKK, so close to 80K euro, not the 36k I am earning. Or just start contacting, like many SDEs in Poland do, then your effective tax rate (taxes + health insurance + social security) is around 15-17%. The reality in Poland is that full-time employment (as opposed to self-employment) is for suckers.
    - PartiallyTyped 4y ago
      I don't think it's possible to do that with Amazon :/
      - badpun 4y ago
        Yeah, American corporations typically don't allow it. But, they don't extraordinally well in Poland anyway, so they can just be avoided.
        badpun 4y ago
        *they don't pay
- lovich 4y ago
  Food prices are higher because global agricultural output had a major drop last year[1]. Every major food producing region of the world was hit by covid induced labor and equipment shortages, bad weather, or war, or some combination of them all. [1]https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/production.pdf https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/production.pdf
  - webmobdev 4y ago
    Not to mention that a quarter of the world's wheat come from Russia and Ukraine - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-ukraine-and-the-global-wheat-supply-interactive https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-... ...
seydor 4y ago
what is the average rise in prices since last year?
- yurish 4y ago
  Hard to tell, prices raised unevenly. Real estate have become very expensive. As for day-to-day spendings my unscientific gut feeling tells me that I spend somewhere 25% more. Official figures of inflation something like 12-15%.
  - slaw 4y ago
    Why real estate become even more expensive?
    - yurish 4y ago
      Several reasons. It started during COVID times when it was not clear if we are facing new economic crisis. So wealthy people used real estate to protect their savings. Then the government decided to support construction companies by subsidising mortgage for young families and as a result stimulating demand. And now again uncertainty of current situation stimulate people invest their savings in something safe. On the other hand sellers were afraid that ruble will fail significantly and raised prices so high that sells almost stopped. Right now prices to real estate are going down a bit.
      - slaw 4y ago
        Thank you for answer. The same situation is in all economies where government prints money and people are afraid currency will lose value so it it better to keep wealth in real estate.
  - seydor 4y ago
    that's as much as it is in europe
    - nicbou 4y ago

by yurish 4y ago

Worse. Food have become more expensive although prices rise slowed down. Many clothing brands have left and replaced with brands from Turkey etc. But we are not starving, have gas, electricity.

pokepim 4y ago

Well sounds like many parts of EU then. In Netherlands restaurant prices have gone up 20-30% this year. When visiting Poland I have seen food prices to be as high or even higher than in Netherlands while they earn 3 or 4 times less on average. It used to be cheap to go to Poland but this year quite crazy. I feel bad for them, looks like their government really fucked up, also the sanctions are backfiring badly over there

PartiallyTyped 4y ago
And that's not even the whole story. As an SDE, after taxes, SS (that I will not ever use), and rent+utils, I am left with 750 euro of disposable income. My effective taxrate is 38%. To have the same taxrate in Denmark you'd have to earn around 650k DKK, so close to 80K euro, not the 36k I am earning.
- badpun 4y ago
  > To have the same taxrate in Denmark you'd have to earn around 650k DKK, so close to 80K euro, not the 36k I am earning. Or just start contacting, like many SDEs in Poland do, then your effective tax rate (taxes + health insurance + social security) is around 15-17%. The reality in Poland is that full-time employment (as opposed to self-employment) is for suckers.
  - PartiallyTyped 4y ago
    I don't think it's possible to do that with Amazon :/
    - badpun 4y ago
      Yeah, American corporations typically don't allow it. But, they don't extraordinally well in Poland anyway, so they can just be avoided.
      - badpun 4y ago
        *they don't pay
lovich 4y ago
Food prices are higher because global agricultural output had a major drop last year[1]. Every major food producing region of the world was hit by covid induced labor and equipment shortages, bad weather, or war, or some combination of them all. [1]https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/production.pdf https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/production.pdf
- webmobdev 4y ago
  Not to mention that a quarter of the world's wheat come from Russia and Ukraine - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-ukraine-and-the-global-wheat-supply-interactive https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-... ...

seydor 4y ago

what is the average rise in prices since last year?

yurish 4y ago
Hard to tell, prices raised unevenly. Real estate have become very expensive. As for day-to-day spendings my unscientific gut feeling tells me that I spend somewhere 25% more. Official figures of inflation something like 12-15%.
- slaw 4y ago
  Why real estate become even more expensive?
  - yurish 4y ago
    Several reasons. It started during COVID times when it was not clear if we are facing new economic crisis. So wealthy people used real estate to protect their savings. Then the government decided to support construction companies by subsidising mortgage for young families and as a result stimulating demand. And now again uncertainty of current situation stimulate people invest their savings in something safe. On the other hand sellers were afraid that ruble will fail significantly and raised prices so high that sells almost stopped. Right now prices to real estate are going down a bit.
    - slaw 4y ago
      Thank you for answer. The same situation is in all economies where government prints money and people are afraid currency will lose value so it it better to keep wealth in real estate.
- seydor 4y ago
  that's as much as it is in europe
  - nicbou 4y ago