A Spanish woman who lives in the United States (in Florida, more precisely) has gone viral on TikTok by posting a video in which she tells how much she pays for electricity and gas.
Nury Calvo He lives in a house that doesn’t have gas and in which he uses air conditioning 24 hours a day so that there is no humidity.
She and her family own two refrigerators, a dishwasher, washer, dryer, and the aforementioned air conditioning. For all of this, plus the lights and appliances that he doesn’t mention in the video, Nury pay $138.35 for electricity.
For water you pay something like this: $121. In the TikTok he specifies that they only have a chopper and automatic irrigation as extras, but then all the members of his family take a bath “like any neighbor’s child”.
If we take into account that in Argentina the blue dollar is $488, we can say that the Spaniard pays -in Argentine pesos- $67,514.8 of light and $59,048 of water.
Nury Calvo shares on his account (@nurycalvosn) all her foreign habits in the United States. She has more than 800,000 followers and she has 12.8 million likes on TikTok.
The reactions
TikTok has already been viewed by more than 2 million people and commented on by nearly 3,000. There was everything: those who thought it cost a lot, those who thought it was cheap and those who ensured that it costs very little. the latter prevailed.
“Very expensive water and very cheap electricitycommented one person, to which Nury replied: “This is what I think too”.
“Very cheap….here in Spain 3 times more”, “Water here costs you very little but electricity, if you add some air, the bill is nice” and “Well, you pay very little. Here in Spain if you leave the air on how will you get the bill that gives you a heart attack ahahahaha”, were some of the messages published by the Spaniards.
People from other American countries, such as Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras and Nicaragua, have also highlighted how cheap electricity costs compared to what they pay for.
“It’s time to average out with salary as it depends on that whether it’s cheap or not,” reflected another user.
Source: Clarin
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