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Bacchus4.0

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4. Not if you want to buy food or clothes. 46Bs is $8

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 2, 2014, 01:29 PM

Oct 2014

I don't know if you've been to latin america, but those cigarrettes aren't US.

Now, if you have dollars and exchange them illegally on the black market for Bs, yes it could be very cheap. Remember though, you'd have to have cash, the ATM and credit cards are going to charge you dollars at or close to the official rate of 6:1.

4600 doesn't go far when you consider the actual prices. Its about $50/month.

I suggest living or traveling to Colombia, Peru, or Ecuador instead.

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Cost of living Caracas [View all] Bacchus4.0 Oct 2014 OP

Is trashing Venezuela your only trick? 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 #1

I just don't like chavistas. Still a lovely country with great people, the worst government Bacchus4.0 Oct 2014 #2

The minimum wage is 4600 Bs per month so a lot of this stuff is affordable and is contrary to your Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #3

Not if you want to buy food or clothes. 46Bs is $8 Bacchus4.0 Oct 2014 #4

46 Bs is 46 Bs. Period. No one is paid in dollars. Your attempts at currency conversion to buy Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #5

Fine with me, a quart of milk is still Bs24, Bacchus4.0 Oct 2014 #6

I have lived in and visited many other poor countries, working folks do not shop where you shop. Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #7

Well, clearly you haven't been to Venezuela Marksman_91 Oct 2014 #8

Can you post these "unimaginable prices", in local currency? At local shops? Not just in central Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #10

You keep touting that 100 billion dollar a year figure hack89 Oct 2014 #11

Your financial "analysis" is without merit or reference. Revenues are indeed in the hundreds of Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #12

When your annual budget is $165 billion hack89 Oct 2014 #13

OMG!! You really are clueless. Venezuela is certainly among the most westernized nations Bacchus4.0 Oct 2014 #9