On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 09:52 -0400, Dan Trevino wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Tim Holloway <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I suppose it depends on where you eat, and I will admit that I haven't > > recalculated for recent inflation and exchange rates, but I've had no > > shortage of people telling me what they could buy for lunch with 47 > > rupees and the going salary rate for Java programmers up until about > > 2007 was 1 lakh/year experience. I should have said "5-day work > > lunches", and I don't pay $8 for lunch at home either. Still, I'm going > > to take a lot of persuading that things have changed so much that > > Gainesville and Bangalore even remotely overlap on cost of living. > > > > Cost of living is definitely higher here. No argument. But 47 rps > wont get you a chicken wrap from a street vendor for the past few > years. >
I suppose it depends on the street. A place in Chennai is advertising an 8-piece chicken lunch for Rs 50. Their menu include IT Company Specials (!). Rs. 45 for lunch, Rs. 35 for their breakfasts and dinners. In Bangalore itself, there are places where you can reportedly get idli&sambhar for Rs.10 and a cup of tea for Rs.8 more. That's all I want anyway. I'm not a chicken person. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
