Had two reasons to go out today, a parcel to post and also to check that the tyre pressure was not misbehaving.
Tyre seems ok, thank goodness! I went to a different place than usual thinking to go to a café that I haven't tried before. But it turned out that it doesn't open until 11 and I got there at about 10. Couldn't be bothered to hang around that long so went to a charity shop to buy a couple of rose painted bowls as gifts for friends in the UK. Also bought a bracelet and earrings.
Today's outfit is all black and white
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I've been trying to reorganize some big external disks so that I can take a full backup of my laptop before upgrading to a newer version of Linux Mint. But it's been taking so long that I decided to just buy a new disk. It turns out that with the exchange rate at the moment that such things are cheaper here than in the UK. I don't understand that, median income is definitely lower in the UK than here yet the price of computer gear seems to be a larger proportion of that income in the UK. Surely in a market fifteen times larger there should be more competition forcing the prices down?
According to https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-income-by-country median income in the UK is 16 k PPP international dollars whereas in Norway it is 23 k.
I don't know how that relates to GBP and NOK though. According to https://www.avtrinity.com/uk-average-salary the median income in the UK is just short of 30 kGBP. According to https://qery.no/data-tracker-norwegian-labour-market/earnings-wages/ median income in Norway is 51 kNOK per month or about 612 kGBP per year; at the current exchange rate that's 45 kGBP per year.
I know that computer related gear is not made in either country but it still seems that UK consumers are getting a raw deal, after all wages also contribute to the prices.
