Telecommunications is for most areas a monopoly and the Intenet connection is utterly rubbish! US$140 per month per megabit leased. Compare that to US$20 per month in the USA, US$28 per month in UK. A cabbage costs about $2! Just some examples. Gasoline is ridiculously cheap (AMEN). So I would have to agree with the above posts, that things are getting mighty expensive.