Six months into our stay, I'm pretty adept with the euro and can even give a cashier exact change without too much trouble. Getting used to the high price of living in Paris is another thing. To give you a sense of what I mean by "high", here's a list of some of the things you might buy while in Paris, whether as a tourist or resident, and the typical prices in our well-to-do neighborhood(assuming the euro is about $1.46):
- two liter bottle of milk(just a bit more than a half gallon): $3.73
- Starbucks tall coffee (actually, here the smallest size is called "moyen" or medium): $3.77
- cup of coffee in a local café: $3.51
- cup of coffee on the Champs Elysées: $6.58
- sandwich at your local bakery: from about $5.40 to about $8.00
- chicken: $1.96 per pound for the whole chicken and up to $5.14 per pound for split breasts; roasted whole chicken from the butcher's rotisserie: about $12
- baguette fresh from the oven: a steal at $1.31
- bottle of wine from the corner market: from $2.07 (which looked questionable) to about $15; many bottles can be had in the $4-$6 range.
- the least you can probably pay for dinner in Paris in a non fast food restaurant (for two courses, not including wine or coffee but including tax and tip): $36.57
- two Snickers bars out of a vending machine: $2.92
The good news: walks through the city and most museums are free for those under 18 and free for all the first Sunday of every month.
Six months into our stay, I'm pretty adept with the euro and can even give a cashier exact change without too much trouble. Getting used to the high price of living in Paris is another thing. To give you a sense of what I mean by "high", here's a list of some of the things you might buy while in Paris, whether as a tourist or resident, and the typical prices in our well-to-do neighborhood(assuming the euro is about $1.46):
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Obviously,we will plan to be in Paris on the first SUnday of a month!
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