MAD MONEY

This article is about comparison of the United States and the Czech Republic, just in away of money.
When I was leaving I was prepared that living in the U.S. is more expensive than in the Czech. Now I have a possibility to discover where the truth is.
Let's start with the most demanding commodity ever, oil. It is sold in gallons. One gallon is approximately 3.8 liters and it costs between $2.5-3.0. So it is about half of the price in Czech, but that's probably the first and also the last thing:-p
We stopped once in the Italian restaurant "Johnny Carino's". It is kind of a normal restaurant which means not a fast food. The meal costs you about $10-$15 [include beverage], but you get for your money, as everywhere here, really big portion. They have also some combos for two or more person which are a lot cheaper. Also food in shops are mostly more expensive. Ham which I like for my lunch sandwiches costs about $9 per package. My lunch at school if I have one in cafeteria cost $1.75 and that's pretty cheap, but I don't have it every day either it is kind of a fast food meal and I don't want to spend $40 on lunches every month too.
Some electronic appliances are cheaper. You can buy a really good laptop for about $1000, iPod [30 GB] costs approximately $250 and plasma TV $1000-$2000, it depends an how big screen do you want to have. CD's cost from $10-$20. But the one for $20 usually include DVD or some other bonuses, so average is about $13. Prices of pre-paid phone cards starts at $5 and you can speak hours on local calls but for calls abroad it's approximately one hour phone call for $10.
Some kind of sport equipment you can buy cheaper. I was looking for tennis racket, but I don't remember the price, sorry. Frisbee I wanted to buy costs $10.
And finally what I got really cheap was the ticket for The Rolling Stones' concert:-) And what cost me a fortune? A haircut. I paid 17 bucks for it.