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> "Bay Area" The Bay Area is not America. In Philadelphia, for example, entrees at a nice restaurant downtown are about $15, while I fed three adults at a bar
by elil17 3y ago
> "Bay Area"
The Bay Area is not America. In Philadelphia, for example, entrees at a nice restaurant downtown are about $15, while I fed three adults at a bar in the suburbs for $40.
The government isn't lying to you with CPI, you just live in an outlier city.
- blindriver 3y agoNo, same meal cost much less before. We go to the same restaurants and know how much prices went up. The restaurant owners of the ones we visit often all say the same thing, they had to cut down on quality while still raising prices over the last couple of years, and some had to drop menu items because they were getting too expensive and the risk of wasting food because no one ordered it was too high.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoYou seem to think that the cost of eating at restaurants would/should not reflect the cost of housing in the general vicinity of the restaurant. The other example you were quoted was from Philadelphia which is a (relatively) cheap east coast city with fairly stable house prices. Nobody is denying your experience, they are pointing out that your experiences come from an "outlier" location.