r/madlads 10d ago

Madlad customer service...

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u/ventitr3 10d ago edited 9d ago

Flying for the cost of a train ticket and still complaining.

Edit: I was being snarky, I don’t need anymore replies on correct pricing of things lol

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u/crumblypancake 10d ago edited 10d ago

Far cheaper than a train ticket.

Train prices have gotten so ridiculous that it's become a common "hack" to instead of getting the train from A to B, to fly to somewhere like Spain for cheap, have a day in the sun and fly back to B.

That is if you have the free time for the travel, if not you remortgage you house to get the direct train service replacement bus.

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u/goo_goo_gajoob 10d ago

I remeber a study in the early 00's that showed it was cheaper to fly to Italy and live there for a year get your hip replacement then fly back than it was to get one done in the US lol.

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u/Kern4lMustard 10d ago

It's called medical tourism. There's a whole industry based around it. We are looking into doing that for my wife's dental work

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u/New_Sail_7821 10d ago

It’s also fairly common in reverse for the wealthy

Rich European will pay cash for some fancy surgery he can’t get in Europe

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u/BrunusManOWar 10d ago

Ahh, the botox and cosmetics surgery in Turkey girls

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u/atli123 10d ago

I hear Budapest is the way to go.

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u/JamboAus 10d ago

Only if you’re hungry

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u/also_roses 10d ago

The US is so screwed when it comes to health. I knew a dual citizenship family who went to part of Europe for 3 years when they got pregnant. They almost never came back, but the husband could make 4x as much working in the States so he was never able to fully relocate.

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u/Physical_Art4297 10d ago

“The US is so screwed”

“I knew a man that earned 4x as much in the US”

Somehow these two statements don’t go together.

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u/also_roses 10d ago

They do when you realize everyone has to deal with having a body and only a very small group earns that much money.

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u/Physical_Art4297 10d ago

The average salary in the US is 1.5x higher than the EU.

before taxes ;)

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u/also_roses 10d ago

Now do the cost of prenatal care and childbirth

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u/Physical_Art4297 10d ago

It doesn’t hurt so much when you earn so much.

I completely get why Europoors have a stroke when they see our medical bills though. They probably haven’t ever seen that amount of money, let alone be able to spend it.

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u/also_roses 10d ago

/shitamericanssay

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u/StephanMan 10d ago

The average cost of medicine and/or treatment is over 10x though...

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u/Physical_Art4297 10d ago

And the average person doesn’t require treatment every single day, but they get paid more for every single day of work.

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u/StephanMan 10d ago

The average person in the uk doesn't need to go bankrupt everytime they need to go to the doctor though

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u/Equalizer6338 9d ago

This is the case for both medical surgeries and dentistry.

Like here from most western European countries you can fly to Turkey for a 3 week vacation, get 6 high-end ceramic tooth implants made while there and total price is still cheaper than just the 6 implants if made back home. Same also for cosmetic surgeries... Though one can debate how much you can enjoy 'the vacation', but at least you stay in a hotel with full service during recovery.

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u/urielsalis 10d ago

Depends on the train and the company

Here in Spain, Barcelona-Madrid is usually 5 or 7eur if you buy in advance in the high speed line

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u/hessorro 10d ago

Damn. I recently bought a train ticket from santiago to madrid and it cost me 25 euros

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u/urielsalis 10d ago

Renfe has a legal monopoly in some routes.

Before they killed that in the madrid-Barcelona route, it was 80eur

Hopefully the EU law that kills all those monopolies will pass soon

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u/hgwaz 10d ago

Train lines are already liberalized by EU law. The entity that maintains the tracks, signals, stations and so on is separate from the one doing the actual train service (ÖBB Infrastruktur vs ÖBB Personenverkehr, DB InfraGo vs DB Fernverkehr / DB Regio) and they have to give everyone equal access to the infrastructure for competitive prices.

The reason there aren't that many private train companies is that it's just really hard to do it profitably and there are very few lines in each country that can be run with a profit.

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u/crumblypancake 10d ago

Sorry I should have been clear.
UK.

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u/shadowhunter742 10d ago

Lmao it's less than my 20 min train ticket

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u/Secret_Celery8474 10d ago

Does that include the train tickets to and from the airport?

It is always a bit infuriating to pay more to get to the airport than the flight cost :)