Hi again there,
I really cannot understand prices in DR. I am from Barcelona, Spain.
Talking about facts:
An Spanish average salary is about 1.200?/month (about 1.600$) plus two extra salaries in summer and Christmas.
An average salary in DR for a dominican can be about 600$/month (for qualified workers). I know can be more, but the spanish one I wrote also, so just keep that figure.
That means that on average in Spain we earn three or more times salary than in DR.
Then, when I look at the cost of living in DR I get crazy. Just checking basic food like: eggs, rice, milk, water, beer, chicken, etc, I realise that are more or less same prices than in Barcelona!!!!
How can that be? How dominicans can live with those prices if we are talking about basics!!
The same happens with electronics, clothes, etc. Maybe part it is about the lack of big discount stores we have in Europe, where you really have very low prices for basic food even for european standard prices.
Anyone can explain?
Txs!
I really cannot understand prices in DR. I am from Barcelona, Spain.
Talking about facts:
An Spanish average salary is about 1.200?/month (about 1.600$) plus two extra salaries in summer and Christmas.
An average salary in DR for a dominican can be about 600$/month (for qualified workers). I know can be more, but the spanish one I wrote also, so just keep that figure.
That means that on average in Spain we earn three or more times salary than in DR.
Then, when I look at the cost of living in DR I get crazy. Just checking basic food like: eggs, rice, milk, water, beer, chicken, etc, I realise that are more or less same prices than in Barcelona!!!!
How can that be? How dominicans can live with those prices if we are talking about basics!!
The same happens with electronics, clothes, etc. Maybe part it is about the lack of big discount stores we have in Europe, where you really have very low prices for basic food even for european standard prices.
Anyone can explain?
Txs!