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You are bad at managing money if you think eating out is just a bit more expansive than cooking
by arroz 3y ago
You are bad at managing money if you think eating out is just a bit more expansive than cooking
- diob 3y agoThe weird thing is in Melbourne, you can get top quality food for less or around equal to buying groceries. It's an actual "economy of scale", same with Tokyo. It's hard to comprehend for folks in places like the USA, where it's definitely way more expensive to eat out (and typically worse for you).
- arroz 3y agoI lived in Tokyo When I lived there you would be able to get a gyudon for roughly 300-400 yens It will get you full but it’s not very nutritive You can eat many eastern / western fast food dishes for around that price, but if you want to go to an actual sit down restaurant it’s much more expensive I didn’t cook in Tokyo because I was on a scholarship so I didn’t care, but friends told me it would be cheaper to cook too
- Gigachad 3y agoI can go out and buy a Bahn Mi for $10AUD which includes fresh bread baked that morning, fresh vegetables and grilled chicken. It's basically impossible to match this without doing it all from scratch and baking your own bread/grilling your own chicken. At which point you have to produce like 20 in a single go to match the value of the one I can buy pre made.
- arroz 3y agoThen Australia is incredible expensive I can get the same dish in Canada for 8 AUD and can cook for less than half the money, and Canada is not a cheap country
- averageRoyalty 3y agoWe also have minimum wages, social safety nets, and broadly a high standard of living on most metrics compared to North America.