"Oh, how ordinarwy."
Posted on 04/05/2013 12:26:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Romance isn't cheap. But in some places, a night out on the town is a lot more expensive than in others. Deutsche Bank recently came out with its second "The Random Walk" report, which looks at the changing prices of goods and services around the world.
We're taking a closer look at how major cities fared on the report's "cheap date" ranking and highlighting a couple of specific items in the index.
1) SYDNEY: A date will set you back $229.77
Delivery of a dozen roses: $139
2 movie tickets: $35.90
Cab ride (3 km): $11.79
A "cheap date" includes sending a standard bouquet of roses, cab rides, soft drink, pizza, two movie tickets, and a couple of beers.
Source: Deutsche Bank
2) MELBOURNE: A date will set you back $226.56
Delivery of a dozen roses: $139
2 movie tickets: $34.86
Cab ride (3 km): $10.77
A "cheap date" includes sending a standard bouquet of roses, cab rides, soft drink, pizza, two movie tickets, and a couple of beers.
Source: Deutsche Bank
3) TOKYO: A date will set you back $213.51
Delivery of a dozen roses: $113
2 movie tickets: $42.08
Cab ride (3 km): $12.77
A "cheap date" includes sending a standard bouquet of roses, cab rides, soft drink, pizza, two movie tickets, and a couple of beers.
Source: Deutsche Bank
4) LONDON: A date will set you back $199.07
Delivery of a dozen roses: $113
2 movie tickets: $36.30
Cab ride (3 km): $12.13
A "cheap date" includes sending a standard bouquet of roses, cab rides, soft drink, pizza, two movie tickets, and a couple of beers.
Source: Deutsche Bank
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Who does expensive, romantic dates anymore? These days in America it’s a six-pack and a hookup.
How much was that “romantic”, cough, barf, date to Paris the usurper and Moo had cost us?
Vacuuming the house would be romantic enough for me.
Date night in Chicago. $ 1m+.
Orange County, California:
$7.99 a month for Netflix (covers several dates)
$5.00 for a medium pizza
A few bucks for some beer.
I assume the condoms are provided for free by the high school?
Plane tickets from Frankfurt: $300
A night at a Hilton: $230
Tickets to see Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: $300
Dinner in Chinatown: $80
Worship at The Metropolitan Tabernacle (Spurgeons's church) before flying back to Germany: Priceless
Oh, and this was a tremendous splurge to celebrate my 50th.
Can't you at least go the manatee?!
Shoot when I was a Teenager I would talk my dates to the movies and we would see 2 or 3 for $5 (or sneak in to the next one when no one was looking....)
And That was only a few short years ago.
A dozen roses on a first date???????????????????????
really? has anyone here ever done that?
Forget the comedian who said this, “Back when I was growing up, ‘Dinner and a Show’, meant McDonald’s and Hawaii Five-O.”
"Oh, how ordinarwy."
More like a couple drinks in a bar and a hookup in the bathroom, lounge table or dancefloor.
Heterosexuals living the homosexual lifestyle of “anytime, anywhere, with anyone” ain’t pretty.
‘Manatee’? LOL.
Madeline Kahn was wonderful. I love her.
If you’re meeting the girl why are you having roses delivered? Stuff like this is why I hated dating, glad I found mrs right early, our first “date” involved drinking beer and talking for about 5 hours on her patio.
The last date I went on was all the way back in 2007.
The man took me to see ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’. Yeah.
I had to buy my own drink and he ignored me the whole time.
Dating sucks.
21 Romantic cities and Rome is not on the list???
If the people striking fast food restaurants get their way, I won’t be able to afford a romantic date any more.
Sydney is a very romantic city, even if all you do is stroll about Circular Quay holding hands and watching the buskers perform.
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