Cost of living in Geneva

I’d like to share some of my thoughts with you lovely people because they have been in my head, and because I’m stalling talking about Bern or Interlaken until I am able to put pictures of them online.

One common theme in Geneva is national generalizations. Everyone represents their entire country. It doesn’t matter if you’re a minority in that country, if you are from there, you represent. If you’re loud, and American, Americans are loud. It’s a fun game.
Let’s touch on just how ridiculously expensive this city is, shall we? I’ve been cooking for myself (made a killer fried rice last night), but lets calculate the day for the average student in Geneva, who smokes cigarettes, eats at the UN cafeteria, and has a dinner in a pizzeria, and certainly not the upscale variety. You wake up in the morning, get dressed, to head downstairs and grab a coffee and a breakfast pastry, like a croissant [$3.30]. If you haven’t a bus pass, it will cost you about $6 to ride the bus to and from work for the day. Ahhh…you finally get to work where nothing costs you money. But oh no! It’s lunch time. You’re not starving, so you’re just going to have an average sized salad, a small fruit bowl, and a diet coke [$14]. You take the bus home, and don’t have any groceries, so you decide to go to a small pizzeria, because the menu has some nice variety and its certainly not upscale…so hard to decide! Should you get the cheese pizza, which you could finish with ease [$22] or the bowl of alfredo, which would be a nice filling meal [$24]. It seems you have run out of cigarettes, but as a good European, you stop off and get yourself a pack [$6.10]. Perhaps you go to the bar, and don’t stay for more than two rounds [$12].

You didn’t do anything recreational, or see any museums or wild sites today, you simply lived your everyday life, amounting to a grand total of…$64.40….so much for sending your kids to college. You don't even want to hear about the things i do to save money...or do you?