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Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That depends very much where you live. Around me, 8-15 is a pretty standard range for decent sit-down places. You can pay more, but most places hit that range pretty squarely. Depending where you go, you can get burgers and the like for under $4, much better quality than fast food, but not sit down places.

Wages here are pretty damned low, though, so they really can’t charge a lot and actually have business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I agree depends very much on where you live but anywhere where Burger King costs over $30 is going to be more expensive than the kind of areas you are talking about. That seems to be the underlying assumption in this thread at least.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But that really isn’t true either because fast food has gotten quite out of control here as well.

A large whopper meal at the closest place is almost $17. So you could easily hit $30 for 2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Dude a whopper meal doesn’t cost $17 anywhere. A cursory google search will show you that. The most expensive I see is $12 and that is 1 source. The rest run $6-$10 typically.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dunno what to tell you man, that’s what comes up here on the bk website. There’s a whole 2 locations within an hour of me. I don’t eat fast food and I’m not about to install their app just for this conversation, so but hey, let’s even say the $16.70 is a whole 20% higher than the actual price.. that’s still like $14 for the large meal, which still puts it squarely within the $30/2 range.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I tend to agree with @[email protected] , prices can vary wildly, in my area I'm closer to his 12ish bucks. This is for a large meal WITH cheese and bacon