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Old Jan 21, 2009, 4:22 pm
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ClimbGuy
 
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I think you need to be careful when you make a statment like that, cheaper then where outside of the US?

If you want to talk about iPods or other consumer electronics by and large I will agree with you. However food and shelter are different. If you want to compair a typical city in the US to say London then sure. However if you look at Buenos Aires, you'll be calling the US expensive.

Since this is the budget forum, I'll go even further to say a backpacker has a lot more options to travel cheaply in Europe then the US. For one there are a lot more hostels throughout other parts of the world. While you can find a few in every metro city in the US, they are far less prevalent. As for travel, there are countless rail passes you can buy abroad, in addition if you travel light and play by their rules you can easly book 10GPB tickets on Ryan Air or other LCCs.
Last edited by ClimbGuy; Jan 21, 2009 at 7:16 pm Reason: spelling
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