Kind of funny that we have a higher consumer’s purchasing power here in Finland than in Norway, but the reason is extremely low housing costs compared to Norway (about 50% lower in Finland), and at the same time the food inflation was the lowest one in Europe in Finland, and companies managed to rise salaries about 15% during 2019-2024, versus 4% in Norway.
Probably the logic is quite similar in Sweden. In Sweden you can buy farmhouses for 10.000 euros, and in Finland cheapest apartments cost 7000 euros. It seems to be that managing costs is nowadays more important than strong growth.
Kind of funny that PPI is high yet people complain that they have fewer kids because everything is so expensive
Portugal balkan confirmed 🙂
Portugal being at Bosnia or Belarus level, Belgium lower than Poland or Norway lower than Sweden. Hahahahahahah what a joke ranking is this.
Heyheyhey, what a minute!
Not three weeks ago there was this reddit post telling me Belgians had the highest median wealth in all the world (or something along those lines). And now you tell me we are the poor man of Western Europe?
Awful reading for Greece, man.
We are simultaneously behind and ahead of everyone depending on the week when a new map gets posted here. We somehow have more money to spend but worse gdp figures, worse income and highest taxes but we have the most money over for vacations while our currency is cheap. I’m starting to think these stats are kinda shit.
These numbers are going to tank very soon because of the US’s war
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Kind of funny that we have a higher consumer’s purchasing power here in Finland than in Norway, but the reason is extremely low housing costs compared to Norway (about 50% lower in Finland), and at the same time the food inflation was the lowest one in Europe in Finland, and companies managed to rise salaries about 15% during 2019-2024, versus 4% in Norway.
Probably the logic is quite similar in Sweden. In Sweden you can buy farmhouses for 10.000 euros, and in Finland cheapest apartments cost 7000 euros. It seems to be that managing costs is nowadays more important than strong growth.
Kind of funny that PPI is high yet people complain that they have fewer kids because everything is so expensive
Portugal balkan confirmed 🙂
Portugal being at Bosnia or Belarus level, Belgium lower than Poland or Norway lower than Sweden. Hahahahahahah what a joke ranking is this.
Heyheyhey, what a minute!
Not three weeks ago there was this reddit post telling me Belgians had the highest median wealth in all the world (or something along those lines). And now you tell me we are the poor man of Western Europe?
Awful reading for Greece, man.
We are simultaneously behind and ahead of everyone depending on the week when a new map gets posted here. We somehow have more money to spend but worse gdp figures, worse income and highest taxes but we have the most money over for vacations while our currency is cheap. I’m starting to think these stats are kinda shit.
These numbers are going to tank very soon because of the US’s war