How much does a pint of Guinness cost where you are?
Figured I’d pick something that could be cpared apples to apples
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Not sure what you think I missed, I agreed with your first point and I was typing my response while you were answering my question.
It depends where you go, just like in the UK. But alcohol is expensive (high tax) in Canada.
Quid and shillings to dollars and cents? Oh bloody hell!
Guinness, great choice! About £3 a pint here.
Lager/Ale from £1.60 a pint in your locals and a pint of nice stuff in a city centre pub would be anywhere from £2 - £5 a pint depending where and what you’re drinking.
Fair enough! But is it as miserable as over here? 
I find the winter here to be miserable. It’s not as bad now that I have a car, but walking or taking a bus (even worse) to get around really sucks. Some people like the winter because of skiing and stuff like that, but that’s not really my thing.
I think that as far as Europe goes, Italy is a nice place.
I’ve never been to Canada but have family in Montreal I ought to make use of.
Having spent a year living in Italy myself, I concur.
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That is pretty cheap. Here is $3 for a domestic (bud, Coors, etc) up to $5-6 for the microbrews.
A guiness would be around $4-5 for my area.
Do they have Happy Hour in your area? Or is pricing the same at all times?
Oh yes lots of different happy hours. “Bottomless brunch” is popular with the ladies these days too.
I was born and I live in Bulgaria-Eastern Europe. A former communist country, a satellite of the former Soviet Union /But it was never part of it, but a self-sovereign country/, but now a member of NATO and a friend of the United States of America. The people of the big countries in America do not know much about the small countries in Europe, and in the same way Bulgaria is bigger as a territory than more than half of the countries in Europe, because there are generally smaller countries.
The state is fought to be the poorest in the European Union /however, the rankings do not include all countries in Europe, I speak only to members of the European Union/ but it is a bit misleading. In Bulgaria, 80% of the people are the owners of the dwellings they live in. There are also people who live for rent in big cities, but have their own homes in the small towns where they were born. If you work with normal good pay, life here is wonderful. The climate is temperate and we have four seasons. There are mountain resorts as well as beach resorts. The summer of Nice beach resorts Entertainment is infinity, people come from all over Western Europe. Mostly Englishmen, who are most like tourists. Also from the Nordic countries, Germany and others. There are many Russians. In Bulgaria there are many beautiful places of nature, old fortresses, as well as very shiny places – there is everything. Our country was founded more than 1300 years ago and has been with this name, which is now. 1300 years ago, many countries that are now larger in Europe and with a stronger economy, in the early Middle Ages these peoples were tribal alliances and had no countries. I’m telling these things because people aren’t familiar, and they don’t have to. Many people do not know and think wrong things about the Eastern European countries. Even it became funny to me, when in one topic a person here asked, whether in Bulgaria we have access to food additives and supplements. I have also heard questions whether we have had televisions:-)))))) They must think things are very bad here. I will only tell you that with us the children in the first class have smartphones, even in Bulgaria the Internet connection is quite fast… In big cities everywhere you sit to lunch or drink coffee there are routers to make a connection. Not that it’s a big deal, but I’m just saying it because a lot of people are fooled. But as I have said, they are not and must know everything about each country. Just the traditions and the way of life here is completely different. People think differently and perceive the world differently.
I love my country and I’ve never had a desire to live elsewhere. There are many Bulgarian emigrants around the world, but most of them are poorer people who, due to low wages, have not lived well.
Of course, Bulgaria is famous for its strength athletes lifting Olympic weights. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria is still a leader in Europe in the eternal ranking for the most won medals of this sport. But in recent years this sport has not developed in the way as it was years ago. I’ve noticed that a lot of people love their places where they live, and although in other places it might be nicer, they have no desire to change that.
I want everyone to be happy where they live, because that would be the best thing to do.
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People’s Republic of Maryland here. We’ve got pretty much everything here; mountains, lakes, ocean, farm land, etc… Everything; except, freedom. Taxes are astronomical. Traffic is horrendous. It’s a pretty crazy state. Lots of shit. Cow shit in the west and bullshit around Annapolis and DC.
Oh and murder. Lots of murder.
I mean, if you ever want to escape all the murder but keep everything else, you can move up to New England … that’s about the only difference I see is we don’t have quite as much murder…everything else is about the same as far as I can tell…
All of our murder is concentrated in the lovely city of Baltimore so it doesn’t affect me much. It just means I have to drive around the beltway to get everywhere.
Oho, hometown of Maryland muscle machine-Kevin Levrone. I was a big fan when I was a teenager. I like him a lot now, too.
Excellent write up. Thanks for the info. I’m afraid I’m one of those who doesnt really have any knowledge of eastern Europe. Sounds like a great place for an American to visit. How is it for English only speakers? Is it hard to navigate and get around?
Come to Texas brother. No income tax, reasonable property taxes. We have terrible traffic if you want to live in big city but otherwise its wide open.
@yorkshireiron, kind of off topic but I was curious if people in England refer to themselves as English or British?
Edit: apparently this may be a sensitive subject. No offense intended. Just genuinely curious.
Oh boy. You gonna open that can of worms? Haha
Really? I’m completely ignorant if that is a sensitive subject. Certainly did not mean anything.
Haha it’s a little confusing and more complicated than you’d expect: Terminology of the British Isles - Wikipedia
I “think” British is the safest designation haha.