As we know that prices has gone up very high in the last few months (or even before), I'm just wondering how much is this affecting your living, your lifestyle, your budget (financial plans) etc..


I suggest a poll if possible with such options:

I can not see it's effect.

I'm surviving (50-50)

It's messing up my life.

:DLet us pray for more price because if we all going to be happy, who is going to be sad? Let them suffer!!:D:D:D

^^^ !!! i cant belive it........

:DLet us pray for more price because if we all going to be happy, who is going to be sad? Let them suffer!!:D:D:D


That sounds as you are our Lord.


It would be nice if an opinion is given, thank you.

It's gonna mess up my life when I get married, may Allah help me

:DLet us pray for more price because if we all going to be happy, who is going to be sad? Let them suffer!!:D:D:D

you seam sad ...



its already massing up my life in a way ..

well yah the prices are increasing but thank god id didnt affect my lifestyle so far...

i know it will affect it later when im on my own...


it's inflation, and we have to accept it, our country is growing ...

Its gone up very high

Now i can get anything as im using my parents money but after that wjen i grow up there is going to be a problem i may not be able to afford stuff that i want

So i hope i can learn to live on a budget since now lol

The nachos at Al Shatti Plaza was for 1.300, now its 1.500 :bored:

^Nachos are for 1.000 rial! Unless I didn't notice the price.

Anyway, It didn't change anything thank God..didn't really notice.

Do I need to beg for a poll, please. *or I need to pay lol*

Grocery shopping wise yep it did :bored:

^Nachos are for 1.000 rial! Unless I didn't notice the price.
I included the drink.

^ 1,500 with the drinks? cool..

anyhow, it's affecting my lifestyle, not messed up yet, i'm surviving. :D

I didn't notice it till i wanted to make some scrambled eggs. Eggs were finished at home so i had to get n i was shocked from the price, otherwise i don't do grocery. Nothing like scrambled eggs on a friday evening!! with toast >_<

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I didn't really notice the difference. I guess its because i'm not in Oman for most of the year.

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Thanks Thug4Life, but what is your point of view of the situation? :)

its very annoying and there is SO far no clear valid logical explanation to why its happening...
am a survivor... :)

I am not the one who goes to the shop most of the time, its my husband .. I didnt notice much but I keep hearing him telling me that the bread went up, eggs went up and so on.

its very annoying and there is SO far no clear valid logical explanation to why its happening...
am a survivor... :)

1 answer: globalization!!

If we depended locally on our basic needs we wouldnt have faced such a big problem.

Yes I noticed, my salary dispears very fast.

I didn't notice it till i wanted to make some scrambled eggs. Eggs were finished at home so i had to get n i was shocked from the price, otherwise i don't do grocery. Nothing like scrambled eggs on a friday evening!! with toast >_<


You are right, the eggs prices have gone made but that's the only good, there are many different things.

The situation is coming to a breaking point, some people I know their life was difficult before this high prices stage, what they are going through after this stage is indescribable. When I see their kids it breaks my heart.

so how much do you pay for eggs? (can anybody convert the price to currency i can understand...like euros, dollars or pound stg please? )

i think 6~6.5 euros?? :think:

so how much do you pay for eggs? (can anybody convert the price to currency i can understand...like euros, dollars or pound stg please? )
If converted, and compared to the US, you'd find Oman much cheaper than the US. But the truth is that things in Oman aren't really cheap. Prices have been increasing rapidly ever since the beginning of 2007 when salaries increased by 15%, and then came Guno in the 2nd half of the year and been used as an excuse.

Question is, when are the prices going to stop increasing?

If the prices weren't hot then you wouldn't see all these exotic cars in Oman.

Translation: Companies benefited a lot from this.

is it a case where the rich are getting richer and the 'normal' wage earners are struggling?

is it a case where the rich are getting richer and the 'normal' wage earners are struggling?
exaaaaaactly

is it a case where the rich are getting richer and the 'normal' wage earners are struggling?

More likely the rich is getting richer and poor is getting more poor.
Some think that normal people will vanish from the society, you either be rich or poor ... Nothing in between.

I heard the Shawarma reached 400bz now.

Well, still cheap, we pay 3.50 GBP for a Donner Kebab here.

is it a case where the rich are getting richer and the 'normal' wage earners are struggling?

I doubt thats the case, in fact some middle class people benefited from those hike in prices. Those people who own a building or a land with good location are not necessery rich, however with this boom in the eceonomy they benefited from the rent and increase in land prices.

^^^ true

some of the people working in the private sector benefited alot, but even so, they still pay more for thier operations cost...

I doubt thats the case, in fact some middle class people benefited from those hike in prices. Those people who own a building or a land with good location are not necessery rich, however with this boom in the eceonomy they benefited from the rent and increase in land prices.

Thank you for your point of view, but what is the percentage of those people who have lands and houses for rent? More than 30% of the middle class? What about the rest?


So I really do agree with Originally Posted by minerva
is it a case where the rich are getting richer and the 'normal' wage earners are struggling?

And it's.


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We were taught in school that the prophet :PBUH: advised people in his time: (Who wants good trade or who has shortage in bounty, he should head to Oman)

And it seems now Omanies themselves struggling! sub7an Allah.

Thank you for your point of view, but what is the percentage of those people who have lands and houses for rent? More than 30% of the middle class? What about the rest?
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I dont know the percentage but I dont think its a small number. Many people are trading in the land business and benefiting from it.

I am just saying, its not fair to say that its only the riches who are benefiting .. the situation is affecting everyone, and there are two ends of the spectrum .. people who are benefiting and people who are loosing and I dont think its equally segregated between the riches and the poorest!

Any way, thats my point of view, and I personally beleive if we kept on blaming the situation on the riches only we will not reach to any soloution . we need to analyse the situation from each angle.

you seam sad ...



its already massing up my life in a way ..:D:D:D Inshallah Kher!!:D:D:D

Any way, thats my point of view, and I personally beleive if we kept on blaming the situation on the riches only we will not reach to any soloution . we need to analyse the situation from each angle.

It's about the decision makers, and maybe it happens that they are the richest, who were appointed to ensure that the citizens are living in a good condition.

To analyse the situation we need the decision makers to show up and tell us where we are stuck!! But to show up and tell us the high prices crisis is a global matter that's like saying sorry you have to live with it if you can!!

I think rich people are now sick of being rich, and they want to bee extremely wealthy.

How to fix that, very simple, boycott food! Now if one supplier increased his prices just cut him from the list!

For example: One rice supplier increased the price of rice with no good reason. Stop buying rice, and go for bread. I know that we can't boycott everything, but for sure when no one buys a certain product its price goes really down, and sometimes they just out of fear that the lot get expired, they sell in a (buy one take one free). Yes! Yes! that is the way!

I think even we can start grawing our vegetables, making our bread at home, having our own chickens to lay our own eggs! 3 families can buy one cow and share its production.

I think we should stop thinking about mobile phones and start thinking about food!

It didn't affect me. I didn't notice it.. Maybe because I am not working or haven't been doing grocery shopping until recently, so I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

everything is expensive now even in Australia... resturants increased meals princes dramatically, around 10%. electracity and transportation had increases too.. its un stopable

I have no idea about this but I only know that rental contracts went up here in Oman. It feels so good blaming the 'global warming' lol

wont affect me now..scared to think about the future esp if the inflation wont stop!

its all over! the prices r crazy mad!

More likely the rich is getting richer and poor is getting more poor.
Some think that normal people will vanish from the society, you either be rich or poor ... Nothing in between.

so true!

The Material world prices are increasing, while the Spiritual World prices are going low, many souls have become worthless, and a drop of oil equals everything.

Or let us say, there is a Devil who is pushing everything to a 'Global War'! Yah, I think he (Devil) is using some evil spirits to tow the cart to the cliff. So they (I don't know who they are) are just bringing things to confrontation. Armageddon is what they are up for, and sure being opening and boldly wrong now is far more successful than ever before!

Israel is having biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig arsenal of Weapons of Mass Destruction and so everyone is quite, and those poor who has a bomb or a gun are being irritated by the massive power.

*Sigh* sad reality....

A can of Pepsi is 150 Baizas in the next door shop

^^^ what the?!!!

i know soft drinks cost 125 in petrol stations, but 150? in a grocery shop?!

I am affected by the gasoline price in the place I am in, I spend 4 times as much as I used to 6 years ago

It's hard. I have a kid in college, a car payment, ga$ is a mess...food prices going up. Cutting $$ corners. Hard.

I really can see a real crisis, especially a food crisis!! Everything is going up and everywhere!! I do not know what has changed to end up in such a situation. More people? could be!

And India is threating by stopping rice supply or increasing the rice prices.

Lets all jump on the global warming bandwagon, shall we ?

Now that they are diverting vital food crops to generate biofuel (which except for biofuel generated from sugarcane has a larger carbon footprint than regular fuel), things are going to get worse.

The amazon is being destroyed so that they can grow soyabean to generate fuel.

Al Gore and his buddies must be laughing all the way to the bank.

it didnt affect my lifestyle or living

is it a case where the rich are getting richer and the 'normal' wage earners are struggling?

Yup thats about it - rich getting richer, middle class struggling and disappearing and the poor starving. And not everyone got a 15% increase! Some ppl in fact most ppl I know got nothing! So rents have tripled, basic staples like bread,flour, rice have increased substantially (eg bread used to cost 150bz it now costs 250bz )and salaries are the same...... pretty awful situation right now. :(

this is more than just regular inflation

Here is an inflation calculator, to see how much an amount in a year is worth today...

(in US$)

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

I haven't noticed a difference, but then it's probably because I never really spend any money in Oman other than to entertain myself..
I guess the people who do the grocery shopping, pay for other expenses, etc. are the ones who notice, especially if they're on a budget.

Haha, AMARANT chips Oman is now for 75biza ;)

Prices are increasing which is normal, things will change and life will just keep getting expensieve and harder.

^i bought chips oman last nite which was 50bzs

Now that they are diverting vital food crops to generate biofuel (which except for biofuel generated from sugarcane has a larger carbon footprint than regular fuel), things are going to get worse.


You are right and some leaders are feeling the pressure already:

Leaders warn on biofuels and food (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7359880.stm)

I'm getting by. :)