Banh mi in southern California is cheap, too. $2-$3 for a full baguette with a decent amount of stuff inside. That's at Lee's, possible other places are overpriced.
I haven't found that style of sandwich anywhere else so I don't know the prices.
Oakland is still plenty expensive – banh mi are in the $7–10 range which is about double where they were fifteen years ago. Tacos are $3–4. Depending, of course, on how far east you want to venture.
I thought he got $80 mio in Uber shares some years ago. In Ho Chi Minh City - the capital of his home country - you can buy a good freshly cooked lunch like Com Suon Op La (steak with egg, rice and fresh vegetables) for $0.50
So for everyday living, $80mio in Vietnam is going to feel like $8bio in the US (because steak in a restaurant is $50 instead of $0.5 for a 100x multiplier in living costs).
Inflation's taken it's toll but I think you can still find Banh Mis for $5-6, even downtown. You can find premade burritos for ~$5 at grocery stores like Rainbow or Trader Joe's (but they're closer to 10 oz not the supersized stuff you'd get at a taqueria). And, quite frankly, I find the 7-11 sandwiches to be perfectly serviceable and usually in the $5-$7 range.
London's a funny example to me because I've been consistently underwhelmed by the food in England (train stations are no exception).
You can have a nice pizza for 8-9€ these days in Paris, a really good crepe for 5-7€, tasty bo buns (vietnamese noodle dish) are usually less than 10€ in the asian neigbourhoods, etc.
In a similar vein we have a lot of bakeries here run by a local Vietnamese population. They do these amazing pork rolls for $5, which is very cheap for food in Australia (A big Mac meal is around $12 for perspective). They are popular because of the price and if they were $7 they would sell far far less.
A big mac meal in Seoul runs about $6. I think the sandwich is about $4. I wouldn't know offhand since I've only ever eaten once at a McDonald's in Korea, and that was 8 years ago.
CA bay area, we usually buy chicken for $1.50-2 per lb. That's 50c per sandwich, granted it is plain, not breaded. Just picked up several tri-tips for 3.88 per lb. Buns 8 for $3
1/4 lb tri tip is a great sandwich for about $1.5
We buy chicken under $2, pork under $3, and beef under $4.
As a result, many vegetables are more expensive per lb.
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