WHERE LIVING IS CHEAP.
"Tho cheapest place in the world is Antioch, in Syria," says a returned traveller. "Being on the Mediterranean, tho climate is just right in tho colder months. I once passed a winter 'there, and all it cost mo was a pound a week, though I leased a fine house and kept three servants. For the houso I paid twenty i shillings a month rent, while the servants woro satisfied with two shillings a week. Mutton cost threehalfpence a pound. Eggs were a penny n dozen, and chickens twopence-half-ponny each. The finest of fresh fruit and vegetables (in summer, too !V woro so cheap that they were not sold in quantity. You got all you wanted for 60 uracil per wcok. All I required for my household cost me one shilling weekly. An American resident of Antioch told me that ho and his family lived comfortably on thirty-five pounds a year." __________
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 12
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154WHERE LIVING IS CHEAP. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 12
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