Has any economist ever really} worked out why living all over ti world is so enormously dearer than used to be? The question is suggested by reading in, the "Manchester Guardian" Lord Apsley's Geseription of Australia as "the poor man's paradise" and a correspondent of that paper writing of his awn experiences in Australia some 16 years ago says During most of my visit Sveraged JP ahuings awe sydney, where my cost
ing, ike Lord. Apa giel€ how. the only the" scariest rea While trying to get a job, T took fo hold my bed and a ram ting table, for five. abu Sydney th those days. pence." The. dinner could be made a Very solid affair, if one kept to. beef, mutton, or ateak and kidney puddi tables wore serve meat, followed by a Varinbly" took the. form'of_ boiled suet Puddings containing dried or" fresh T donot Femember to have dri restaurant wh was, not included drletor_ would const the game if any" so. without his tea, Fifty years ago in England a married couple could start life on] £350 a year and do very comfort-That (some years earlier) must have been approximately the income of Betsy Trotwood, plus the house at Dover—we get the broad outlines of her fortune at the scene of the unmasking of Uriah Heep—could drive a pony trap, put David into Doctors' Commons' and maintain him in a flat in London. To-day, production of all kinds and means of transport are out of all proportion greater and easier than when David Copperfield was running after Miss Shepherd, Miss Larkins and Dora but wa can't do the things he and his friends did on] the same income. Why is everything so internally dear?
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