Money, money, mooney.. MONEY!

Okay. I don't really know where to start with all these money things. Nothing just makes sense over here. Like for real I knew where I was coming to when I got here but oh my god...

Over here they have minimum salary in use. I've heard it's around 800 reais. We don't have minimum salary in Finland but if you have full time job in Finland (about 40 hours a week) your weakest salary before taxes is around 1500 euros. After taxes something like 1200 euros. About that much. I think like 1st year register ladies or McDonalds workers gets this money. Something like that.
Okay so this 800 reais is 200 euros. You don't pay even our rent with that money. Maybe this is one reason why kids never move out from their parents place. Or maybe when they turn 30. (In Finland we often move out when we turn 18 and at least by 20). If you would like to live here in a same standard way than in Finland, your salary should be at least 2000 reias. Or maybe even 2500 reais if you want health insurance. So 500-750 euros.

Our rent is 1000 reais and season months it's 1100.. Like. What? You can just change the rent like that? Like I get it because we live by beach and all but isn't it better to have long term renters than tourists once in a while? Or well yeah maybe the tourist rents are like 1000 a week. Hahha. Wasn't thinking.
So the water and electricity is part of the rent money. And then 100 extra from internet. So the living money is about 300 euros.

Our couch was 900 reais. So around 250€. It was on sale. Normal price about 1400reais. So 350e. So the sale was good.
But you only get the discount if you pay the couch right away. And who has 900 reais in your pocket just like that when the minimum salary is 800? Rich people. If I would have bought the couch with installment, the final price would have been about 2000. TWO FUCKING THOUSAND. Like talking about the interest.

So I have no idea how many people in the end actually gets to buy anything from sale. And the salesguy went nuts when I told him that I want to pay the couch right away. He asked many times "Do you mean like in 30 days? So you mean you want to make some kind to payment plan?" No, I want to give you all the money right away.

So installment payment over here is the most common way to pay things. From clothes to furniture.

The big prices are shown like this:

And this is so weird because you kinda have to read the fine print which tells you the REAL total.
So first when I saw all these low prices I was like WHAAAAT HOW IS EVERYTHING THIS CHEAP! And then Mauricio said that yeah those prices are actually the prices you pay monthly... Well. Fine.

So we are still trying to look for the kitchen table. It's very hard to find the right size and GOOD QUALITY! I want it to be full wood or some hard plastic. So there is no plastic furniture here and full wood is very hard to find. (Why the fuck you don't have IKEA here?? I don't get it). Everything is made from this weird woodchip thing. And this material doesn't take moist good like at all.. What's the point of selling furniture that doesn't last under moist weather when you live in AN ISLAND and the SEA is EVERYWHERE?? It doesn't make any sense! But hey when this is the only thing you have then this is the one you buy. And after 6 months the table is completely soft and moist and filled with termites (I got some experience from that). And this same material you use in a sink cabinets but doesn't take the moisture.. Oh yeah and these furniture from this material are not cheap. But local people don't mind. Everyone is in the same situation. Quality and Price don't walk hand in hand and that's just how it is. It's normal.
Sometimes I feel like shaking this people here and ask WHERE IS THE REVOLUTION, WHEN ARE YOU GONNA ASK YOURSELF "WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING HERE" (Okay there is more to this than furniture :D)

Electronics are crazy expensive. PS4 was like 5000 or more when it came on the market. It's way over 1000 euros. No one in Finland would pay this much from a game console. It's still like 3000 or something over here. 

Movies, CDs, bags, clothes, shoes, EVERYTHING is so expensive over here that the president built this "mall" downtown which is dedicated only to pirate stuff. And this is legal. Oh well I honestly don't even know if this is legal or is the illegal just made to look less criminal :D I know it was illegal but still people kept selling this stuff on streets. So apparently the president thought "Better -hide- this shit". There is one this kinda mall also in Mauri's hometown.

The food in general is more expensive here than in Finland. Especially when you compare the salaries.
Cheap food like fries, frozen pizzas and ready meals are very very very expensive over here. Like 2kg of fries is 15 reais?? Like it's frozen freaking potatoes why the price??

This is what 125 reais of food looks like. I think it's kinda a lot of money.

We don't really eat cheese anymore because it's so INSANELY expensive! One kilo is like 30-50 reais! In Finland one kilo you can get with 5,99 :D Insane.

If you wanna live as a vegan. Good luck. Or if you honestly just want to eat vegetables then it's affordable but soy, tofu all this kinda things are SO expensive! And it's actually very hard to find any vegan groceries. Only soy things.

If you do have money then you just go to these cool vegan restaurants which are surprise surprise too expensive for regular people to eat.

But I think I'm gonna write more about foods later.

The one positive thing is that I can ask pretty much whatever money from my cakes!