[pokepim]

Well sounds like many parts of EU then. In Netherlands restaurant prices have gone up 20-30% this year. When visiting Poland I have seen food prices to be as high or even higher than in Netherlands while they earn 3 or 4 times less on average. It used to be cheap to go to Poland but this year quite crazy. I feel bad for them, looks like their government really fucked up, also the sanctions are backfiring badly over there

[lovich]

Food prices are higher because global agricultural output had a major drop last year[1]. Every major food producing region of the world was hit by covid induced labor and equipment shortages, bad weather, or war, or some combination of them all.

[1]https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/production.pdf

[webmobdev]

Not to mention that a quarter of the world's wheat come from Russia and Ukraine - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-... ...

[PartiallyTyped]

And that's not even the whole story. As an SDE, after taxes, SS (that I will not ever use), and rent+utils, I am left with 750 euro of disposable income. My effective taxrate is 38%. To have the same taxrate in Denmark you'd have to earn around 650k DKK, so close to 80K euro, not the 36k I am earning.

[badpun]

> To have the same taxrate in Denmark you'd have to earn around 650k DKK, so close to 80K euro, not the 36k I am earning.

Or just start contacting, like many SDEs in Poland do, then your effective tax rate (taxes + health insurance + social security) is around 15-17%. The reality in Poland is that full-time employment (as opposed to self-employment) is for suckers.

[PartiallyTyped]

I don't think it's possible to do that with Amazon :/

[badpun]

Yeah, American corporations typically don't allow it. But, they don't extraordinally well in Poland anyway, so they can just be avoided.

[badpun]

*they don't pay