Currency weaken and cost of living gone up? Ohh no, our family trip!
Currency weaken and cost of living gone up? Ohh no, our family trip!
As a European: how do you spend tens of thousands here on vacation?
You spend most of it getting there depending on where you're coming from. Family of 4 flying to Europe from the West Coast of the US? Yeah that's gonna be an expensive flight.
Yep, what the other comment said. For example, according to this side, an average cost of inexpensive meal in German is 12euro, exchanged to MYR it would be RM61.92, a significant bump of cost, then including transportation, flight, stay, and souvenirs, it will get very expensive quickly. In comparison, an average meal in Malaysia is about rm8 to rm13.
The median household income per month in Malaysia is around RM6.4k, about 1240euro.
The average meal in Malaysia is more like RM20. It's true that one dish may cost +/-12, but unlike in Europe, a dish here consists of only one part, e.g. meat. You want rice, a salad or something with it, you pay extra.
I'm literally just in this airport after travelling Malaysia for a solid month, looking for the best place to settle down for the next 3-4 years (which I decided would be Kuching).
I'm planning to visit family from the US this summer. For a family of four, flights are $1,200 per person. We are fortunate to stay with family most of the trip, but between hotels, food, train tickets, etc, we could easily spend that much.
Obviously this article seems out of touch when some of us are struggling to afford food, but our fight is the same. Rising prices, stagnant wages, and the owner class creaming off as much from our labour as they can.