Definitely, living in PAP is extremely expensive. I never thought that living in the poorest country in LA was going to represent monthly expenses as high as my monthly expenses in Paris. And clearly, here I don’t have access to not even 10% of the services and quality of live as the one that Paris offers. Transportation implies the highest costs, in a normal week I spend around 200-250 US and we have to take into account that 3 times per week I take a moto-taxi which clearly implies a reduction in transportation costs. In a weekly visit to the supermarket, without buying anything special and actually buying less things that the ones I use to buy in Carefour in Paris, I can easily spend 70 US. The lunch menu at the IDB or at the Ministry is 6 US and a cappuccino is 5-6 US, this latter is clear far away from a cappuccino in Oma in Bogotá or in Coutume in Paris. With these prices it’s impossible that there is no inequality. In this country, there are 2 worlds, one accessible only to foreigners and to the upper class in Haiti (10% of the population) and another, where one has to walk around destroyed streets and mountains of garbage to collect water, where second hand clothes and shoes are all around the streets vendors and where living in a camp became part of the routine.
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2013
El costo de la vida sube otra vez
Definitivamente el costo de la vida en PAP es demasiado alto. Yo nunca
imagine que vivir en el país más pobre de AL iba a ser tan caro como
vivir en Paris. Y acá claramente no tengo acceso ni al
10% de servicios y calidad de vida que se tiene en Paris.
Mensualmente, mis gastos en PAP son iguales o incluso más altos a mis
gastos mensuales en Paris. Transporte es el rubro que implica
los costos más altos, en una semana normal el gasto en transporte
asciende a 200-250 US, y es importante resaltar que 3 días a la semana
me desplazo en moto-taxi lo cual representa una gran
economía. Una ida al supermercado en la semana en la que no compro
nada extraordinario, e inclusive menos de lo que usualmente compro en
Carefour en Paris, puede representar fácilmente 70
US. El menú diario de almuerzo que en la jerga popular Colombiana
es un simple corrientazo, cuesta 6 US. Un cappuccino que dista mucho
del cappuccino en Oma en Bogotá o de Coutume en
Paris cuesta 5-6 US. Con estos precios es imposible que no haya
desigualdad, en este país existen dos mundos, uno accesible únicamente a
los extranjeros y la élite de haiti (10% de la población)
y otro donde hay que desplazarse entre calles destrozadas y ríos de
basura para conseguir un balde de agua, donde ropa y zapatos de segunda
abundan en las ventas ambulantes de las calles y donde
vivir en un campamento se volvió parte de la rutina.
Definitely, living in PAP is extremely expensive. I never thought that living in the poorest country in LA was going to represent monthly expenses as high as my monthly expenses in Paris. And clearly, here I don’t have access to not even 10% of the services and quality of live as the one that Paris offers. Transportation implies the highest costs, in a normal week I spend around 200-250 US and we have to take into account that 3 times per week I take a moto-taxi which clearly implies a reduction in transportation costs. In a weekly visit to the supermarket, without buying anything special and actually buying less things that the ones I use to buy in Carefour in Paris, I can easily spend 70 US. The lunch menu at the IDB or at the Ministry is 6 US and a cappuccino is 5-6 US, this latter is clear far away from a cappuccino in Oma in Bogotá or in Coutume in Paris. With these prices it’s impossible that there is no inequality. In this country, there are 2 worlds, one accessible only to foreigners and to the upper class in Haiti (10% of the population) and another, where one has to walk around destroyed streets and mountains of garbage to collect water, where second hand clothes and shoes are all around the streets vendors and where living in a camp became part of the routine.
Definitely, living in PAP is extremely expensive. I never thought that living in the poorest country in LA was going to represent monthly expenses as high as my monthly expenses in Paris. And clearly, here I don’t have access to not even 10% of the services and quality of live as the one that Paris offers. Transportation implies the highest costs, in a normal week I spend around 200-250 US and we have to take into account that 3 times per week I take a moto-taxi which clearly implies a reduction in transportation costs. In a weekly visit to the supermarket, without buying anything special and actually buying less things that the ones I use to buy in Carefour in Paris, I can easily spend 70 US. The lunch menu at the IDB or at the Ministry is 6 US and a cappuccino is 5-6 US, this latter is clear far away from a cappuccino in Oma in Bogotá or in Coutume in Paris. With these prices it’s impossible that there is no inequality. In this country, there are 2 worlds, one accessible only to foreigners and to the upper class in Haiti (10% of the population) and another, where one has to walk around destroyed streets and mountains of garbage to collect water, where second hand clothes and shoes are all around the streets vendors and where living in a camp became part of the routine.
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