A GLOBE-TROTTER.
“The cheapest place in the world is Antioch,” said a globe-trotter, ”1 once passed a winter there, and all it cost me, though 1 leased a tine house and kept, three servants, was 16s. 6d, a week.
"Antioch is in Asia, on the Mediterranean. The climate is all right for winter—as good a winter climate as Monte Carlo.
“For my house T paid £l. a month rent. My servants 1 paid 2s. a week Mutton cost ltd. a pound. Eggs were a penny a dozen. Chickens were Bd. each. Fish cost a fifth of id. a pound. Tin' finest of fresh fruits and vegetables—fresh fruits and vegetables in February—were so cheap that they were not sold in quantity. You get all you wanted for so much a week. All I wanted for my housebold cost me Is. weekly. “A foreign resident of Antioch told me,that ho and his family lived comfortably on £BS a vear."
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 26, 29 March 1907, Page 7
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157A GLOBE-TROTTER. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 26, 29 March 1907, Page 7
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