I live in the boonies. For most of my life, I've taken for granted living 10 miles from a major hub of international air transportation (O'Hare). In order to get to Narita Airport (near Tokyo) I took a taxi to the Sendai Subway, the subway to the main train station, a shinkansen to Tokyo, and the Narita Express train to the airport (4 hours of travel). To get back home again after my vacation I took the Narita Express, Shinkansen, and a bus.
Traveling from my house to the airport and back again cost me 30800 yen which currently converts to US$271.27.*
In 11 days in Malaysia I spent 600 Malaysian Ringgits which translates to US$179.13.*
I want to make some sort of insightful comment here....but I don't really have any. I'm pretty amazed at the figures though.
*I used the currency converter application on iGoogle.
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WOW I'm living on $175 per month (alcohol, clothing, jewelry and other non essentials excluded)!
In my country there is problem
And that problem is transport
It takes very very long
Because Kazakhstan is big
Throw transport down the well
So my country can be free
Make travel easy
Then we have a big partee!
You have done this all wrong!
After a $271 commute to the airport, almost everything else in the world will seem cheap, even the $8 ride on the London Underground. You should have seized the momentum and flown to England instead of Malaysia!
Love you dearly, stay warm and keep having fun!
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