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On the way back home from work today, I heard that the price of gas is going to go up tonight and it'll go up some more Saturday morning. This made me wonder - what are gas prices like where you live? What is your average cost of living? What is your minimum wage? How do people usually get around where you live?

Where I am now, the price of gas is 124.8 cents/litre today. (It's regulated so every gas station in the city show the same price.) The average cost of living is about $70,000/year and the minimum wage is $10.25/hr. People usually take public transit if they're going downtown or to more central parts of the city. They drive if they have to go to the neighbouring towns and cities. Students and lowerclass people usually take public transit everywhere. Lower-middleclass people also take public transit unless they're driving outside the city for work.

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$3.50 in American dollars for a gallon (American) of gas.

And you need a car to get around what I live because the buses are iffy and there is no other way except for taxi which is out of the question for every day use. Forget about using bikes. Bike paths are non-existent. You would have to drive on the streets with car traffic.

Okay I'll indulge you and reply anon but I do have to question why.

These days I'm paying about $3.50/gal. I know a couple of good spots to get gas, and if you go to a wealthy white neighborhood the difference can be as much as twenty cents. Though I've had good luck with a certain shitty neighborhood because there's two stations next to each other and they compete. It helps that they're right next to where I do my banking, too, so I get the majority of my gas from there.

I don't want to deal with stalker-anon or data-mining accusations today.

A shitload. I think well over 4 dollars a gallon. I don't know exactly because I almost never drive; I take public transportation extensively since it's fairly decent where I live. There's still a lot of people who drive but public transportation and biking are certainly quite popular and well-used.

Cost of living is generally extremely high here, as is the minimum wage.

140.9c/litre, in my currency.

Converting for the Americans, that's US$1.42 a litre, or US$5.38/gallon.

Minimum wage is about $15, less if you're under twenty ($5.87 if you're under sixteen, sixteen gets $7.55, then $9.22, then $10.90, then $13.17, and finally twenty-year-olds get $15.59, and that's where it's capped). My city has the highest cost of living in my country, but I'm not sure of the exact cost.

Forgot the other part of the question. I usually use public transport myself (don't have a license, never wanted to drive), or get a lift with Mum. Mum drives, as do... well, most people. Public transport is pretty extensively used (...especially in the mornings when I'm going to uni, sob), but not as much as it could be. It doesn't help that our city's rail service is, um, less than optimal.

Gas varies frequently but it's around $3.50 (American dollars). Minimum wage is $7.50/hr.

There's not a lot of public transportation here, and what there is is solely in the cities which there are also very few of. Mostly people drive to work. It's pretty common to have about an hour commute each way.

The price of gas is about 1.60 €/liter, no idea about the average cost of living, there's no single minimum wage (each profession has a different one, it just needs to be "reasonable").

Most people use their own cars, but public transit (buses) is pretty good, and people use it a lot as well, especially students. Cycle paths are excellent and go everywhere, personally I drive my car about half the time and go by bike the rest.

1,30€ a litre, for diesel fuel, however. I don't have a license, but live in the countryside most of the time, so I rely on walking and public transportation, plus carpooling. People usually mix a bit of the three, since public transportation in the countryside is practically non-existent where I live, so even if they work in the city they have to use a car at some point.

Minimum wage is 7,39€/an hour.

It was around $3.50-$3.60 per gallon, but it jumped this week to around $3.80. (It's about $4.30 back where I used to live though, so I shouldn't complain.)

Not entirely sure what the average cost of living is since it varies by county. Minimum wage is around $9/hr. There's a lot of good transit options for getting downtown/related areas, and sometimes the public transit is faster than driving since there are special HOV/bus lanes on the highways which are like lightning speed when everything else is bogged down in rush hour traffic.

What is the cost of living in your county, since I assume $3.50-$3.60 per gallon is the cost of gas in your county?

The last time I bought gas it was $3.35US for a gallon. Minimum wage is $7.50. People get around by either driving or walking; public transportation isn't a thing here.

Reading this makes me think you're in my province (the min wage is the same) but where I am it's going back and forth between 140-145 cents/litre (not regulated, but gas stations are typically the same at any given time across the board). The public transit isn't very cheap, and varies depending on how far you're going across town, (and does go to a lot of places that are like 2 hours from downtown) but the service is decent enough. Uh, usually.

I don't know about the average cost of living here but it's pretty high methinks.

~~IS IT OBVIOUS WHERE I AM YET~~

If you're not living here it must mean you're living there?

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About US$ 3.50 a gallon. The median family income in my home town is $55,000; you can rent a fairly nice 2 bedroom apartment or even a house for around 650-750 dollars a month. Minimum wage is the same as the US federal minimum--$7.25.

On the other hand, the bus is good, reliable, on time, accessible, clean and cheap--if you work a 9 to 5 job anywhere in town, you'd be silly to drive when the bus goes pretty much everywhere and runs for 18 hours a day. A monthly unlimited pass is $40--and lots of people are eligible for a reduced-fare pass. Of course a lot of people commute to the state capital, 50 miles away. It'd be nice if we had the light rail line people have been talking about, but the governor and the state House are dead against it.

I'll do this anon, but it is probably pretty obvious whom I am. About 3$ or about 2€ a litre and I am too tired figure out how to convert that to gallons, eh I get to about 15$ a gallon, and that can't be right? Average yearly income is 78165.60$ or 60053.30€ We don't have minimum wage, the workers union takes care of that, but the lowest I've ever worked for is about 22$/17€ an hour and that was as a cleaning lady. Public transportation is mostly used by students, the elderly and immigrants, though the larger cities have more commuters on public transportation, also the trains between cities a couple of hours away are mostly used by commuters. Most people have cars and drive everywhere, you almost have to sell your soul to afford to use a cab though.

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I actually don't pay for fuel at all (company driver, wooo!) but apparently the cost of diesel nationwide (in the US) is around $4/gallon. My fuel card is my best frand.

People in my hometown usually drive most everywhere, but I like walking, and taking commuter rail when I can.

Honestly I don't even pay attention anymore. It was like $3.40 something the last time I filled up. I seem to remember gas being a bit cheaper in Texas compared to other parts of the country but that's just because oil comes from here maybe? Polluting the shit out of the Gulf of Mexico is just a small price to pay for slightly cheaper fuel

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(Why anonymously? I'll indulge you though)

Depending on the fluctuation noise, around 115-180¢/litre

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I think gas is about 3.40/gallon right now? It definitely went down recently because I usually have to pay $60 to fill the tank from warning-light empty to completely full, and Monday I only paid $54.

I tried to find the average cost of living in my state, but couldn't find a figure in dollars--all the websites I checked based it on some scale where the US average is 100. My state is about 117, if it helps at all. Minimum wage is 7.25/hour.

Everyone travels by car here because there is no public transportation (it's a small state; even our big city has only around 100,000 people). I guess if you live really close to your job you could go by bike or walk, but we get bad winters that last forever.

Gas costs $3.65 a gallon where I live, but it's 85 octane, not 87 (the lowest octane in most of the US and Europe, and also the octane that the media in the US is referring to when they talk about gas prices). 87 octane costs $3.89 a gallon here. Our highest octane is 91 which costs $4.05 a gallon and is the most commonly used because most people own cars that are less than ten years old.

Cost of living is otherwise pretty low but it's on a steep rise the last two years. The average annual income is also pretty low but that's on the decline for the last five years. The state's minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and neither the county or the city have a higher one in place.

Most people drive because the bus lines here (there are a lot) will take you literally all day to get from the main business district to the main residential area. There are lots of bus lines, but too few buses. The bus ride will take a minimum of 5.5 hours and the drive can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours because there are too few roads to support the traffic. The city, county, and state take great advantage of the very broken transportation system across the state by charging drivers everything from emissions inspections on every single car ($50 annually, even for a brand new car direct from the factory), congestion fees ($150 annually for residents, $50 for 30 days for non residents), to commercial transportation levies that translate to higher priced goods in stores.

Amazon has a physical presence in our state, so we have to pay sales tax on purchases from there. That used to keep people from using Amazon a lot but over the last year there has been a dramatic shift and more than 50% of households say they prefer to use Amazon or other online retailers over local businesses. Documented cases of this in a dozen four-member households averaged a savings of over $1500 in a 12 month period.

It's been hovering around $3.30/gal (US) around here. Depending on the town and gas station, it can vary by 2 to 20 cents or so, though. Cost of living looks to be about $44k/year, if I'm reading this right, and the minimum wage is $7.25/hr. (I only know because it's up in huge font on a poster in the break room where I work.)

Most people drive around here, but there are fairly reliable city busses, though they don't come around often enough to be a reasonable commute option for most people. I do see people biking, though more around the campus than anywhere else, and most are athletic bikers, not commuting bikers.

I last filled up for US$3.289/gallon (87 octane). That price (give or take a couple cents) has been holding for at least a couple of weeks now, though in different parts of town I've seen it higher. US standard minimum wage. Can't find a dollar amount for cost of living, but we made a Forbes list last year on being affordable and getting more bang for paycheck buck (i.e. low cost of living).

Most people use cars: everything is very spread out (lots of suburban and exurban sprawl). Public transport isn't very good for traveling all over the metropolitan area, but if you're staying within downtown, it's okay. As a bonus, there tends to not be sidewalks outside of subdivisions (at least in my neck of the woods)! So it's just safer to drive even to places within a mile of you (though to be fair, a good portion of the year it's too hot to walk anywhere and still be presentable when you get there).

around 0.91 of an American dollar in Mexico, but it keeps going up around 0.10 or so of an American dollar every year

it always goes up

i think it only went down once, ever

average cost of living... i have no idea, actually. around a thousand dollars a month is pretty okay-ish? some people can scrape by with 600 dollars a month, but will likely be in debt

house prices are cheaper than in the United States, but it really depends on the zone/neighborhood/city/state

minimum wage is laughably small, it's $ 64.76 or $ 61.38 per day, depending on the part of the country you live in

that's like, 5.35 dollars per day. per day, not per hour

so, that's... 0.69 dollars an hour if you're working eight hours?

132.72 a month if you multiply it by 24 days

so 1725.36 a year if you include the yearly Christmas bonus

most people get around on the bus or on cars (or by foot, if needs must)

on the flipside, food is comparetively cheap and abundant (when there isn't an artificial increase, or a real scarcity due to droughts or whatever) (mind you, comparative to other countries, but, right here right now, relative to minimum salary, it's still expensive; there's been jokes about how politicians don't realize just how much the minimum salary doesn't pay for the basic needs)

how do people survive? going into debt, with the help of family (it's much not uncommon for children to live with their parents until they get married and/or can make enough money to get their own home), going to money lenders, informal business, or, sadly, crime

this is not uniform, though. you still have your lower class, middle class, high class divide of society, poor vs rich, etc.

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