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[Jester]

Comparing Copenhagen to San Francisco, or NYC is hardly a fair comparison at all.

Uh... comparing the primate city of Denmark to the primate cities of the US? What exactly is the problem here? Should I be going out of my way to compare apples to oranges, maybe? Find the least expensive corner of the US, and compare it to the ritziest neigbourhood in Copenhagen, just to make it maximally unfair?

Yes, there are places here where prices are triple the normal. I'm talking about a normal meal at a cafe, or a cup of coffee. I live in an average area, where things are normal.

Okay, now we're into major pet peeve territory. NEW YORK IS NORMAL. Chicago is normal. Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco... these are all *totally normal places*. They do not exist on another planet. There is no "real America" located in an ambiguous juncture between Nevada and Kentucky where "normal" exists, for armchair sociologists like David Brooks to gush about. Urban is the majority, the median, the experience most people live.

1 gallon of milk costs me $1.65, in Denmark it would be $4.16.

Jeez. $1.65? Where do you live? A dairy farm? A discount store? I've never lived anywhere that you could get a gallon of milk for less than twice that.

Indeed, according to the department of agriculture, your price is about half what you pay in almost any US city. Even in the very cheapest cities, you pay at least $2 on average. The overall US average is almost exactly twice the number you cite. Numbers for the biggest and most expensive cities are barely cheaper than Denmark, if at all. So, I'm calling foul.

To fill up my 15 gallon gas tank costs about $41.25, in Denmark it would be $104.48. A loaf of bread is about $1, in Denmark it is $1.45 (Ja!, so not everything is triple ).

Indeed, it might be fairer to say "not anything is triple," since not a single thing you've pointed to actually is.

Even gas, which is no doubt much more expensive everywhere in Europe than in the US, costs a little more than double - $2.72 per gallon in the US, and just under $6 per gallon in Denmark, which is only 2.2 times the price. Gas is the limit, though - other commodities are much closer to par.

-Jester