Yes, I read the article and realised they were talking about the poorest sections of Britain are worse off than the poorest sections of Slovenia. My comment holds though. It's high time that the notion of the A8 as being backwards is changed.
It's interesting. Food, on the whole, isn't that much cheaper than here but there are certain foodstuffs (such as beer and potatoes) that are considerably cheaper. Property used to be quite a bit cheaper but prices in CZ have risen faster than anywhere else in Europe so it's much less so now. It's also quite interesting that they obviously don't do pints, so the standard measure for a beer is a pullitr, which is literally half a litre.
It's been an ongoing bone of contention that the quality of items, and particularly fresh produce, isn't great as well. It probably doesn't help that the country is so wedded to having meat with every dish.
lol one of my mates was grossed out by a meat and potato dish we had in one bar. Loved it myself at the time, a great slab of fatty meat and greasy potatoes. My diet has improved since.
Aye, it's very much food you have with beer after a day in the factory. The family looks on our healthy food like it's come from Mars before getting back to their pork and dumplings. I think because I cycle a bit they brush it off as the eccentricities of some Olympian so they don't need to worry about it.
Czech beer rules. They're not known for their cuisine though!
Although I will say, once in a while meat, dumplings, and a good beer is quite heavenly.
