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Life Talk!

The US $ VS your country's Currency!

Abukato

Abukato

Somalia

In Somalia the change of 1 US $ to Somali shilling is 32,000 Somali Shillings.

You can buy by a single US $ for:

1- 15 cups of tea

2- 15 peaces of egg

3- Half Kg of Meat

4- 30-50 pcs of Banana

5- 1 Kg of Fish

6- a pair of plastic shoes

7- a live chicken

8- 1 semicard for a mobile phone

9- a bus fare for 30 Km distance

10- 10 pcs of ice cream

11-  1.5 kg of rice

12- 1.5 kg of flour

13- 2 pcs of CD

14- 1 kg of sugar

15- 2 text books/pages.

More and more, what about your currency?

11:41 AM Sep 22 2010 |

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Abukato

Abukato

Somalia

Just 2 cans of pepsi in somalia.

01:33 PM Sep 22 2010 |

javamanju

javamanju

India

1$ =  45 Indian Rupee symbol.svg (Indian Rupee) buys  - 

 9 cups of tea

 15 pieces of eggs

 1.5 Liters of Pepsi/Coke 

 30 of Banana

 1 sim card for a mobile phone with 30Rs Talk time

 a bus fare for 80 Km distance

 5 Scoops of ice cream

  2.5 kg of rice

 7 blank CDs

 3.5 kg of sugar

 1 Bottle of Beer

 2 Shawram(Chicken) 

 1/2 Chicken Tandoori

 Break fast/lunch/dinner for  three

02:36 PM Sep 22 2010 |

Abukato

Abukato

Somalia

Break fast/lunch/dinner for two in Somalia.
JAVAMANJU
Too cheap things in India,you are lucky, but how is the daily income for the poor and rich?
In Somalia 1$ and above for the poor and thousands for the rich.

05:31 PM Sep 22 2010 |

Nicte ha

Nicte ha

Mexico

México,

According to the DOF:

Dollar today is: 12.7623

Prices in México:

1 bread $4.00 mexican pesos = Moneda Nacional = M.N.

1 kg apples $20.00 M.N.

1 kg. bananas $9.00 M.N.

1 Lt. milk $12.00 M.N.

1 kg. eggs $20.00 M.N.

07:09 PM Sep 22 2010 |

Radunagi

Radunagi

United States

You can get a 20 minute phone call (and they say advertising doesn't work) for a dollar.

 

Or a double cheeseburger.  Or two tacos.  

01:59 AM Sep 23 2010 |

Fadi A. Saif

Yemen

One US$ can  buy,

2 cans of pepsi.

2 Shawarma sandwitches.

One Rothman.

Darn, I ran out of stuff to buy.

05:57 AM Sep 23 2010 |

COTTON CANDY

Philippines

1 US dollar=44 pesos

can buy 1 jollibee burger without softdrinks

01:35 PM Sep 23 2010 |

javamanju

javamanju

India

Too cheap things in India,you are lucky, but how is the daily income for the poor and rich?

Humm.. Some things are cheap but other things are not. A liter of Petrol costs 60 INR =1.33 $ , Average house rent per month is over 100$ 

Per capita income is around 250$ per month. So people spend most of their income on Petrol and Accommodation .

Poor- rich thing is very difficult to calculate in India 

25% of Indians live below 1$ per day line , Majority of them being farmers and Agricultural Laborers . Again none of the 1$ is spent on Food, because either they grow it or get it as part of their employment. 

Poverty differs from state to state. Some states have as high as 50% BPL , some have 2.5% . 

However there are 54 Billionaire in India , almost all of them made it from scratch(Not from Royal birth or  from Petroleum).

One interesting example being –  

My father runs a small Business , where he employs 1 or 2 People . A person who had joined newly, was getting 2000Rs(45$) per month . One would think he is poor. But actually he is a Crorepati(Millionaire). He stands to inherit  30×40 plots in the business district of the city, average cost being 2 Crores (Half a million $) . Since he was not educated, he was getting just 45$ per month . 

I have seen many such cases. I have seen cases where in People take "Low Income Certificates" to get rebates in Children education and during buying of land .  

File:BPL Data GOI.png 

02:47 PM Sep 23 2010 |

Abukato

Abukato

Somalia

Any one else! because we need every national from every country in the world to share this importand topic.

12:02 PM Sep 27 2010 |

Radunagi

Radunagi

United States

In China a US dollar is roughly equal to 6.72 RMB

 

If I recall correctly, that can buy:

 

A bootleg street DVD (f course I only buy legal ones): 5-10 RMB per disc, usually on the lower side.

 

A Burger King junior hamburger in Shanghai: 6

 

2 500Ml bottles of coke

3 Cheap beers (Yanjing, ex)

Ma la Tang – a big bowl of soup with noodles and stuff

2 sticks of fried tofu balls

3-4 chickens plucked and cleaned

In a small city, it gets you the first 2 or 3 km in a taxi.

Milk Tea with pearls and maybe some cool flavor

2 clay cup yogurts.

6 Chinese egg-ham-bread-sauce breakfast things

A big thing of water or ice tea.

02:43 AM Sep 29 2010 |