Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall tshirt costing an equivallent of $47 dollars, unless perhaps it was some useless name brand crap. Actually, when I was still over there, utilities, phone, food costs were all reasonably low, wages were somewhat high, rent was pretty low in comparrison to income...really, life was good for us. Stupid to leave it all behind. But that was a few years ago, so maybe a lot has changed.