Also Inflation is measured really strangely in Germany. The official number is +7.4%. However, as someone who has no car and owns no home my main expenditures are:
- rent (+13 % if I don’t move, at least +30% if I move).
- groceries (+20% up until + 50%)
- eating out / going out.(+20%)
For this year only! Most prices have already risen in 2021 “due to Covid”…
I guess for elderly people in cities it will be similar, probably less going out even and more groceries.
So I really wonder how they come up with this number.
Just use the McDonalds Cheeseburger index. It was 1,29€ on 2019, now it is 1,89€ (+46.5%).
Almost all my normal food groceries have gone up by the same percentage amount (raw chicken, ground beef, eggs, milk etc.), and these should be unaffected (at least for now) by the war in Ukraine.
- rent (+13 % if I don’t move, at least +30% if I move).
- groceries (+20% up until + 50%)
- eating out / going out.(+20%)
For this year only! Most prices have already risen in 2021 “due to Covid”…
I guess for elderly people in cities it will be similar, probably less going out even and more groceries.
So I really wonder how they come up with this number.