WHERE LIVING IS CHEAP.

Mataura Ensign, 26 September 1913, Page 5

WHERE LIVING IS CHEAP.

The cheapest place in the world is AnrtiocJi, in Syri<v' suys ji leturncd traveller. "Being ou the Mediterranean, the climate is just right in the colder inaaths. I<» passed a winter there, ami all it cost me was a. pound a week, thauph I leased a tine house and kept three'servants. For the house I paid ~0 shillings a month rent, whale the servants were satisfied with two shillings a week Mutton cost three-halfpence a pound. Eggs were," penny a dozen, and chickens twopence-halfpenny each ihe finest of fresh fruit and vegetables (in summer, too!) were »o ctapthat they were not sold in quantity. You got all you wanted for so much per week All 1 required for my household cost me one shilling weekly. An Amw-ioan resident of Antioch told me that he and hiis family lived comfortably on Ldo a year.