Products are the cheapest where they are produced. No shit sherlock.
The only exception may be software products as it costs very little to transfer them. Also different taxing schemes (like high taxes in production country and low taxes across the border) may cause a product to be cheaper elsewhere.
McOmghall on
As a person who moved to Sweden from Galicia, it is true for almost everything except tech and machinery. Cars, motorcycles, computers and so on tend to cost the same everywhere at least in Europe.
Lysek8 on
Well Croatia pretty much sold the country for tourism, not sure where the surprise is
Nixa24 on
I simply don’t buy the products with price increase of more then 15%. For example, at one point all milk went from 53 cent lowest to 1.3€ lowest, and I didn’t buy it for that time. Now it is back to about 60 cent lowest. Same goes to all other products.
MrsMacio on
I was shocked to learn that Poles pay MORE for the same stuff we buy here in Germany.
They even have specialized companies to serve as a proxy as for example Deutsch Media Markt does not sell their merchandise to Poles even though its prices seems to be lower than in Poland.
yawkat on
You will not see big price differences in goods that can easily be traded and transported between countries, for obvious reasons. You will see differences in cost of services and housing.
It’s very similar within a country: if I move to the “cheap” towns in Germany, it’s not the supermarket or the electronics that will be cheaper, it’s the housing and eg restaurants.
BadBadGrades on
Just bought a 2tb memory card. Amazon Belgium 190€ Amazon Germany 150€…. Funny thing is if you order something from Amazon Belgium it also comes from the German warehouse….
halee1 on
This is almost entirely due to the difference in productivity, as well as Austria’s and particularly Germany’s higher economies of scale due to larger populations, of course Croatia’s overall standard of living is gonna be lower. Meanwhile, real wages in Croatia have been rising rapidly (even though xenophobes and far-righters would assure all of us that immigration to the country should be preventing that), which is reflected in its rapidly growing GDP per capita. The latter, for example, is still pretty distant, but approaching the levels of those countries.
These posts are so dumb.
-inthenameofme on
Its like that everywhere.. you have discovered water
Aros125 on
It costs less, but only what is produced locally. Living in a richer country simply means that you can more easily afford whatever you import, especially if the country you import from is poorer than your own. It is clear that the opposite does not work. If you buy a German car in, idk, Romania, you immediately realize that you are poorer. But if you look at the price of locally produced potatoes you don’t notice. 😅
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Products are the cheapest where they are produced. No shit sherlock.
The only exception may be software products as it costs very little to transfer them. Also different taxing schemes (like high taxes in production country and low taxes across the border) may cause a product to be cheaper elsewhere.
As a person who moved to Sweden from Galicia, it is true for almost everything except tech and machinery. Cars, motorcycles, computers and so on tend to cost the same everywhere at least in Europe.
Well Croatia pretty much sold the country for tourism, not sure where the surprise is
I simply don’t buy the products with price increase of more then 15%. For example, at one point all milk went from 53 cent lowest to 1.3€ lowest, and I didn’t buy it for that time. Now it is back to about 60 cent lowest. Same goes to all other products.
I was shocked to learn that Poles pay MORE for the same stuff we buy here in Germany.
They even have specialized companies to serve as a proxy as for example Deutsch Media Markt does not sell their merchandise to Poles even though its prices seems to be lower than in Poland.
You will not see big price differences in goods that can easily be traded and transported between countries, for obvious reasons. You will see differences in cost of services and housing.
It’s very similar within a country: if I move to the “cheap” towns in Germany, it’s not the supermarket or the electronics that will be cheaper, it’s the housing and eg restaurants.
Just bought a 2tb memory card. Amazon Belgium 190€ Amazon Germany 150€…. Funny thing is if you order something from Amazon Belgium it also comes from the German warehouse….
This is almost entirely due to the difference in productivity, as well as Austria’s and particularly Germany’s higher economies of scale due to larger populations, of course Croatia’s overall standard of living is gonna be lower. Meanwhile, real wages in Croatia have been rising rapidly (even though xenophobes and far-righters would assure all of us that immigration to the country should be preventing that), which is reflected in its rapidly growing GDP per capita. The latter, for example, is still pretty distant, but approaching the levels of those countries.
These posts are so dumb.
Its like that everywhere.. you have discovered water
It costs less, but only what is produced locally. Living in a richer country simply means that you can more easily afford whatever you import, especially if the country you import from is poorer than your own. It is clear that the opposite does not work. If you buy a German car in, idk, Romania, you immediately realize that you are poorer. But if you look at the price of locally produced potatoes you don’t notice. 😅