Mark J Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 I think I pay the same for Netflix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 5 hours ago, TerryMcK said: How much does Netflix cost in the US? I am paying £11.99 including taxes ($14.99 US) for 4 screens at 4K UHD My broadband and landline telephone is £28 a month (including line rental which is the norm in the UK) which is $35 US. I get 100Mbit bandwidth unlimited download for that. Is that similar to US? Same for Netflix My 60MB broadband is $65 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnG Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Same for netflix. My 100mb (download) internet is 83.99 USD / mo. However, the ISP where I’m moving to this summer is 100 upload/download for $40/mo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legenddc Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Broadband is different costs all over the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 11 hours ago, TerryMcK said: Wow you guys have real cheap gas. The price in the UK, as most of the rest of the world, is heavily taxed. We can buy a litre of regular unleaded petrol (gasoline) at £1.10 GBP ($1.37 US). There are 3.78541 litres in an US gallon. So that is 1.10 x 3.78541 or £4.16 GBP per US gallon. I think somebody said they got gas for $1.59 a gallon which is almost a third the price of the rest of the world. £4.16 GBP at todays exchange rate is $5.19 US per US gallon! An imperial gallon as used in the UK is a bigger volume of liquid than a US gallon (not sure why the US has less in it) the conversion is 1 imperial gallon = 1.20095 US gallons. Super unleaded is even more expensive (another 10%). However, try buying bottled water in a supermarket! It is more expensive than UK petrol. If I could drink petrol it would be far cheaper Imperial gallon is 10 lbs of water. Not sure why the US gallon is different. The jug probably got dented when the mayflow made it's voyage over here. "Way back - at the time we all lived together - we had used the Queen Anne's gallon of 3.785l to measure wine. We also had different volumes and names to measure both beer and grain. When we realised that this was silly, in 1824, the UK chose a single imperial term and lumped together all three measurements, picking a roughly-average volume and calling it a gallon. American colonists, though, stuck to tradition and kept just the Queen Anne's volume for their own gallon definition. " Internet here is always going to be more expensive. Running fiber from one side of the country to another isn't cheap and the distance is significantly further than the UK. We also have more people which means even MORE fiber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drzaius Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 I pay about $65 CDN/month for 300Mbs internet here in sunny (at last) Alberta. Gas was as low as $49.9/L, but is generally in the low .60's. Still more expensive than the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 6 hours ago, legenddc said: Broadband is different costs all over the US. And many places, like where I am, not available at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 Speaking of gasoline prices, I heard today that gas in some parts of Ohio dropped below $1 per gallon. Haven't seen that in a looooong while. Still about $1.50 here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Just Bob Posted April 17, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 What is broadband? We either have slow as molasses DSL or really expensive satellite. But we have the benefit of very few neighbors, very little traffic, with frogs, coyotes, and owls to serenade us at night. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 Nice sounds for sleeping. My wolves use to seranade us most nights, to keep the coyotes at bay, It seemed to work and their singing was a joy to hear. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpt life Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 I miss heyena, lion, and elephant night noise. I hope to experience it again someday. Many trips west, I never heard true wolf. That is something else I would like to experience. Here in town, it peepers and crickets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanky Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 2 hours ago, wtnhighlander said: Speaking of gasoline prices, I heard today that gas in some parts of Ohio dropped below $1 per gallon. Haven't seen that in a looooong while. Still about $1.50 here. Last time that I was in town here gas was $1.19 per gal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 We produce it and ship it and ours is $1.49 per gallon. Got to get it back up to at least $2.50! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Sawdust Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 23 hours ago, Chestnut said: Imperial gallon is 10 lbs of water. Not sure why the US gallon is different. Why, everyone knows it's because "a pint's a pound the world around!" Not to be confused with the British pound Sterling. In the metric system, one milliliter of water weighs one gram, so that makes sense. Sort of. Similar but not the same. And of course that's on a standard day (barometric pressure 29.92 in/Hg at 15 °C (59 °F) at sea level). Why was a US quarter called "two bits" by our elders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpt life Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 7 minutes ago, Chip Sawdust said: Why was a US quarter called "two bits" by our elders? Because a bit was worth $.125 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted April 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 I currently can't buy any lumber in the UK period. Hardwood, softwood, ply nothing. Construction sites are suffering too as they can't get supplies either. I see occasional private residencies having building work done by contractors but they are few and far between. We are limited to how far we can travel now unless one of the many fine people who are emergency workers, delivery drivers, supermarket workers, food suppliers, law enforcement and of course the fabulous medical workers. Our prime minister is recovering at home after being seriously ill in intensive care with coronavirus. He survived but it's a long recovery period - weeks apparently. I have lost my aunt and 4 friends to this horrible disease in the last week. I have a close friend rushed into hospital last night. We texted him today and he had been taken for a CT scan on his lung but has Covid-19. Ironically he is a health care worker at the very hospital he is currently in. But on a lighter note I have just ordered some more beer, wine and rum from Amazon so that's the important things out of the way. Our gutter press newspapers report that in the USA essential items to purchase are chocolate and ..... guns . Really? That can't possibly be true. I would give my right arm to eat a Snickers bar right now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chestnut Posted April 19, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 41 minutes ago, TerryMcK said: But on a lighter note I have just ordered some more beer, wine and rum from Amazon so that's the important things out of the way. Our gutter press newspapers report that in the USA essential items to purchase are chocolate and ..... guns . Really? Depending on where you live a lot of retail places are still open. Does that mean they are essential? No, but if they aren't closed by mandate and people are willing to spend their money i can't blame them? We are under a stay at home order and I bought an ATV Friday. So recreational vehicles are "essential" items then as well . I was able to handle everything while staying at least 6 feet away from any one. It's amazing how accommodating businesses are when you want to spend your money. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpt life Posted April 19, 2020 Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 Our state only closed the brick and mortar locations of the non-essentials. Curb pickup and delivery are still happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted April 19, 2020 Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 @TerryMcK, I'm very sorry to hear about your family and friends. I'm surprised you can get rum delivered, but Amazon won't send you a Snickers Bar? I tried to get some beer from the grocery, but they can't/won't sell it through curb side pickup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted April 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 Thanks Mark. Yes chocolate seems to be in short supply but alcohol is no problem. Strange times we are all living in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MattF Posted April 19, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 Got bench almost done! Also picked up a race wheel and pedal set for the PC. Been playing around with a race simulator. This may be a money sink. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Coop Posted April 20, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 Terry, I too am sorry to hear about your aunt and friends, so sad. Is most of your lumber imported and the stores can’t get it or the lumber stores have had to close due to the virus? In Houston our Home Depot’s and Lowe’s are open for business inside the stores. One entrance and two exits and the amount of people are regulated. Our liquor stores are wide open as they say the hazard to alcoholics not having booze is greater than the possible contact. Do you know the import policy that the UK has as far you getting something shipped from the US? I will gladly send you a dozen boxes of Snickers. Please let me know. Some of the things we take for granted? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted April 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 The lumber stores are closed because of Covid not because of any import problems. We do have forests of our own locally grown wood of course. At the moment construction is not seen as an essential need and employees in those businesses (as well as many other non essential businesses) are on furlough. The good thing is the government is paying 80% of their salaries and some companies are making up the difference too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drzaius Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 Construction is deemed essential here too, which is what I'm in. Our 2 biggest service customers are a feed mill & Calgary's largest homeless shelter. But other than that things are dead slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpt life Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 I teach from home MWF. I am supposed to prep TTh, but I don’t need two days to prep three for one class. I have a background as a builder. That’s fair game. I have been moving my prep to the evening and picking up solo work that young guys aren’t capable of doing solo. Trying to split that between killing student debt, fixing my own house, and helping the guys that got furloughed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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