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In Seattle a single restaurant burger will run you €12-14. A restaurant with a proper three course meal is like €80++, assuming zero alcohol.

For the restaurants, their rent is pushing like €250-300/m^2 (or much higher in some locations, much lower if you drive more)



Jeez... If Trump wasn't enough to discourage me from visiting America, the prices sure do! For us that's a LOT of money.


I was in Spain at the start of the year and I was impressed that drinks could be had for a price that only had one digit!

I was also a bit confused about why beer was cheaper than water at some restaurants. That one threw me for a loop.


Yes when going out a beer is usually 3 euro or so. There's a few places where it's 5 euro and people complain about the price :)

However some places like Ibiza are super expensive. 15 euro for a beer or 22 for a mix.

And yes bottled water is often more expensive in the supermarket than wine or beer too. In a restaurant you can often get tap water for free.

Take into account that wages here are much lower than the US though (probably less than half) and lower than nothern europe too.




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