You said that 800 USD was over a million CAD…
That means I could buy a house there for 800 USD.
Yeah, but - 800 USD is equivalent to over 1 million CAD?
Sorry I meant that the same house here would cost 1055804 to be equal to 800000 US.
As comparison, where I live, most university professors do not come close to $30,000/yr.
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average income montly in Germany is around 4500$ where most people may get 2800$ but you will pay also triple for everything like internet electricity and heating.
I pay over 600$ alone for power internet/mobile and heating montly… lucky me to still stay in a very cheap appartment i pay less than that for 
but average appartment rentals are the same as in US if you got it cheap and small… if you need some comfort it can rise… like central in the city p.e.
nice topic these kind of offtopic is nice… as we came from very different places… it is very interesting to read such stuff!
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I’m coming to visit. It sounds like I could have one hell of a vacation for a bargain after the exchange rate.
Yes, we have a lot of foreigners visiting our homeland for vacation.
The sea is also quite nice, very warm and clean (although tourists piss in it, so it won’t be clean for long, so better hurry – it will be warmer, though… 
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Of course, the touristy places have touristy prices. I can eat for two weeks for the price of one cup of coffee in Dubrovnik (pictured above).
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I’ve seen nothing but beautiful pictures of Croatia. I’d still rather avoid the real touristy stuff, but Dubrovnik does look like an incredible place to visit at least once.
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Go for it that’s an apartment from a family member of mine
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Pula is on the other side of Croatian coast from Dubrovnik. It’s a very nice town, too, with a very nice Roman amphitheatre, a bit smaller, but better preserved than the Colosseum in Rome.
Indeed I do manage the little website only never was in Pula I know only ex jugoslavia from before all the trouble.
People here don’t earn that much, like what everyone else mentioned here, but the fact is that they spend less as well !
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Petrol costs around 1.28 USD per litre.
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Diesel costs around 1.13 USD per litre.
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Most expensive Fiber Plan which provides 1Gbps speed costs around 49 USD.
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Basic mobile prepaid recharge which we use costs 3.18 USD, and it too provides unlimited 5G in 5G network zone.
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A 2BHK flat costs around 7000 USD to make them ours, other rentals not included. I am not considering cities which are IT Zones for the country.
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Macbook Pro costs 3777.08 USD with 613 USD/month EMI.
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Samsung and other brands phone are comparatively cheap, as all of them are manufactured and assembled here.
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Since I live in Army Cantonment area, hence we don’t need to pay for water and electricity, along with education in Central Schools up till class 12th.
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There’s a table which might be of some interest :
- Deluxe ice-cream cones costs around 3.5 USD, and common ice-creams cost 1/4th of it !
- A Deluxe platter in a famous restaurant here, which is not 5*, but is very nice costs 3.52 USD.
- Street foods are super cheap and offer vivid varieties.
This dish :
costs 0.73 USD per plate
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One can visit here ( and many other tourist spots ) for free ( almost ) :
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Booking a Gypsy for National park safari do costs money, though.
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Professors and teachers teaching in National Institutes and Central funded institute don’t have to pay much for their rentals, just like the Army. The Government bears the costs for them.
But things are different for those who teach in private institutes.
will be hard to even get ingredients to prep a meal for 73cent here …
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Yeah, maybe if there was a sale on dry pasta and you ate it without anything on it…
dry pasta sale here is at least 99cents … even potato is 1,99
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Here, with 73 cents you could get a single banana, or one donut hole, or a handful of oats from the bulk bin. It’s nearly enough for a can of beans in some places, though I think it may be fifteen or so cents short for that.
only went a little bit offtopic. anyway i take your points @Pudge 
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Responding to the initial message of this thread:
I think forking Arch Linux is a great idea considering how Arch Linux ARM hasn’t been in the greatest state for quite awhile. Maybe forking Arch Linux might help ARM64 become officially supported in regular Arch Linux. Currently, a lot of Arch Linux ARM’s own GitHub pull requests go ignored. I used to use Arch Linux ARM quite a lot on my ARM ChromeBooks. For a time, I even tested EndeavourOS on an ARM64 ChromeBook that not even the Arch Linux ARM project supports.
Arch Linux ARM’s GLIBC is stuck on 2.35 which is pretty old, but they have a PKGBUILD for 2.38 (which from looking around, needs to be fixed as it doesn’t build successfully in its current state). In fact, even Debian Bookworm’s GLIBC is a bit newer, except to my knowledge, at least Debian Bookworm (to my knowledge) will keep their GLIBC updated with backported security updates. There are packages in Arch Linux ARM that are just old and broken all over the place. For instance, they’ve continuously ignored their own kernel and it has been stuck on version 6.2 on both ARM64 and on ARM for quite awhile.
There’s a thread on the regular Arch Linux forums that was started some time ago about trying to get the regular Arch Linux maintainers to also support ARM (ARM64 particularly) but it didn’t get very far. Arch Linux ARM’s issues have become worse and more noticed in recent times. A question to ask is if Arch Linux ARM can even be called “Arch Linux” at this point given the state of the project.
Also, I love how wholesome this thread got. How’s everyone doing today?
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