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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Yeah but a car several years ago costing £7000 would have been a top of the range with all the extras, where as for the same money these days it'd be a little commuter car with no optional extras.
In other words what your original comment is totally lacking is inflation.
Kymmy  |
Top of the range, all extras car for £7000 from several years ago, I think it'd be longer ago than that
OK I didn't state anything about inflation, I was assuming that was obvious and I was talking in relative terms (prices go up, wages go up - it's relative)
The car I drive is 11 years old, it was near the top of the range and cost £28000 at the time (which would be about £40000 today - though I paid nothing like that
) but the model in the same 'near top of range' position now costs about £40000 but technically wise it is far superior to mine.
My car gets me around and a 56k modem will still get you on the web but you wouldn't want to pay the same today as you do for broadband today. In fact I've always paid (relatively) about the same for Internet access, even from back when I had 14.4k
