One dollar in purchasing power

One dollar in purchasing power

Chen Ju-bin

The latest survey, the New Yorker's current annual revenue of about 2 to 8 million, followed by Guangzhou people income figures.

In Guangzhou, a dollar can buy a copy of the Deepa, or two eggs, or a small Apple. In New York, a dollar can buy?

In the streets, one dollar you can individually newsstand to buy a copy of the New York Times, two copies of the daily news, or four of the New York Post ".

If you prefer to buy Chinese newspapers, a dollar can buy two Chinese daily news, New York currently has 4 Chinese daily copy at 50 cents. These are the prices on Monday to Saturday, most newspaper Sunday Edition will price increases. The New York Times Sunday Edition priced at us $ 3.5, however there are 200 version, plus 3 copies of the magazine; Chinese world daily Sunday Edition sales 60 cents, Sing Tao Daily, Sunday sales of 75 cents.

Manhattan has a so-called "world's biggest bookstore" Historial de (Strand) Bookstore, a dollar a library of thousands of species, including literary classics and academic work.

In unary a bookshelf, occasionally also can find Chinese books. I bought a book published in 1977, the Webster's Dictionary of the twentieth century, even thick pillow, 16 2129 pages, only spend a dollar a day.

In the New York public library, a dollar can automatic coin Copier page 5.

But in the streets, self-service photocopying shop, copy 1 sheet of paper with just 5 cents, one dollar you can copy a 20 page.

In Chinatown, a dollar can buy for three to five Apple, 3 pounds of bananas, 3 oranges, 4 plums.

You can also buy a pound of cabbage, or half a pound of mustard.

In the supermarket, one dollar you can usually buy 1 cartridge (12) fresh eggs, price reductions, a dollar can buy 2 boxes of eggs.

A can of "import" Qingdao beer or the local "Budweiser" list price is $ 0.99, with a can of Coke price, of course, if you buy the whole box, but also cheaper.

A bottle of mineral water at a dollar ice, in Chinatown, not freezing mineral water than a dollar a day and sometimes you can buy 2 bottles.

Movies of the United States were always chewing, roadside shops a dollar can buy a box of 12 pieces of gum, if in a large supermarket, 2 dollars can buy 3 boxes.

A hot dog (sausage bread) price is usually $ 1.25, but in 42nd Street near a consular post in a conspicuous shops, but you can buy 99 cents hot dogs.

One dollar can in addition to the streets of Manhattan, downtown parking 1 hours to 15 minutes per unit time pay 25 cents.

Some people just to save a 25 cents coins, but eating a fine of $ 35.

Coin 25 cents to the side of the public telephone booth hit a city phone, time 3 minutes.

There are public telephones machine coin 50 cents can play an unlimited time for local calls.

The streets of New York has numerous "99 cents" store, the store inside thousands of small commodities, most of the commodity is a daily necessity, a lamp, a pair of scissors, a glass, a stapler, a pack of envelope, a package of biscuits, each piece is only 99 cents on sale, with a ten-dollar bill, you can buy many everyday things.

New York man's wallet inside, often with family photos, credit card, but cash is usually not much expert advice is usually around US $ 20.

Street or beggars in the subway which tells the story of their grief, often request people to charity "one dollar or one quart (a 25 cents coins)" meet.

However, in Guangzhou dollar can take a bus no air-conditioning, in New York, take a bus or subway, 2 dollars.

One dollar a day, you can give New York City Mayor Bloomberg Borg (local Chinese translation for Bloomberg), a one-year wage, salary to halve the Mayor, he has received nearly four years, and to continue to receive from the Government, it is said that a dollar annual salary is going to cost us $ 100 million, Mr. Mayor campaign funds to seek re-election.

Of course, they are all United States number derived from billionaire, in order to stretch the political ambition, wage levels have not need care.

In New York, don't get sick, in a general clinics, hanging on, at least $ 15, and do not say that medicines, should require hospitalization, take up is astronomical.

New York house prices are expensive, Manhattan's suite, often hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars.

In the city, where in the jewellery shop next door to Trump Tower, a second bedroom Suite $ 100 million, four-bedroom suite at $ 400 million! media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's $ 4400 million at the end of last year, he bought the Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller once lived, the attic type luxury suite luxury in Manhattan.

In the New York life, every month to face many bills, although the dollar has many purchase options, but many Chinese don't feel very rich, very rare to extravagance, thrift or many overseas Chinese firm of daily living.

(42 Street in the city 99 minutes hot dog shop)

(Chief Paul Lydda 99minutes grocery store)

(25 minutes in Chinatown grocery stores)