American Expats in Britain Suffer ‘24/7 Sticker Shock’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 12.04.07 | 3:55 PM ET
How bad it is? Imagine life without cheese. The Los Angeles Times chronicles the plight of expats and foreign exchange students struggling with the weak dollar. Case in point: “Amanda Owen, a 19-year-old international relations student from Seattle, said she holds herself to a draconian budget: She has dinner out only every other month; she bought her iPod online in the U.S. and had her parents mail it to her; she weaned herself off lattes, organic food and, though she is a vegetarian, cheese.”
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Photo of British cheese by BeMa via Flickr, (Creative Commons).