gregmcc
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Saw a box of Astros at Spar. R64!! WTF?!
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On the other side, paid R140 for a 700g rib eye on the bone. That would be £30 here.
/cries
Sinbad
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Yeah I was stunned at the price of ribeye to be honest. Crazy.
theratman
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Spar are ridiculous though, most expensive supermarket in SA. 150g Astros is R42 at Checkers.
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Under £20 at my local market village butcher.
Pay that all day though, their meat is top notch.
Yea I probably need to make a trip into town tomorrow to check out the market butcher here, I'm sure they'll have some more better prices.
Mephisto_Helix
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Plan a holiday in April they said ..... it's coinciding lovely with seemingly all of europe transport striking 
That's not much better
Oddly enough, wife and I have found the meat we preferred the most to be from Lidl. We get most of it from there now days.
It was FutureLife Crunch, was at Checkers. I bought it anyway because we don't get it in the UK and I wanted some. Bargain for £3 LOL
Funny how it's the small things we miss the mist.
The Voice
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Aldi for us. As South Africans we’ve been spoiled with good quality meat and game all our lives, the UK really is terrible when it comes to finding anything comparable.
Lycanthrope
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Do a road trip!Plan a holiday in April they said ..... it's coinciding lovely with seemingly all of europe transport striking
Have a few nice, relaxed stops along the way and do some light sightseeing on the way to your destination?
Where are/were you planning to go?
Mephisto_Helix
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We're doing Germany and Switzerland and we do have a car hire for most of it, it's just the trains and planes part of getting there that may be strike affected that I'm losing my mind over
The Voice
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A lot of places enforce right to rent by having you go to their office with your passport to prove you’re A) who you say you are, B) that you’re actually allowed in the country on a long term basis, and C) that you’re actually IN the country.
Remember, there are literally queues of people who are physically already on the island standing outside newly available properties desperate to rent to rent them. They’re always going to have priority over someone who isn’t here.
I think in the price range we are looking at there aren’t queues of people wanting to rent £2500 properties. So we at least have that going for us.
We did have one or two who would let our friend view for us.
That’s our budget. We obviously would like to rent for less. But we need the space.
If you have a credit history in the country; sure.
We plan to buy as soon as my credit history is good.