Cigarettes and alcohol

Well, living in two places, you start to get a handle on what’s cheap where (though I struggle to think of anything that can actually be described as cheap in London).

Anyway, I decided to compare the price of a few basic items, that you’d probably find in a shop in pretty much any country in Europe. Of course, if you were buying Hungarian peppers they’d be cheap in Hungary and non-existent in England. Similarly (sort of) you can’t really find packets of 10 cigarettes sold outside England. So anyway, below are the results, which tell us a few things. Firstly the price of basic food items isn’t wildly different, although I’m assuming salaries are (about double if you go by wikipedia). Stuff is generally a little cheaper in Budapest unless you want to have cornflakes for breakfast. So, mineral water, coca cola and bread is about half the price in Budapest. Butter and Milk are pretty much the same price.

Secondly though, and more obviously, you can see how what you really want to live on in Hungary compared to England is beer and cigarettes.