A block of cheese costs
more than my weekly shop

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What used to cover a weekly shop of vegetables, fruit and bread, would not even buy a packet of cheese today.

Whether it is living in two time zones, using two currencies as a black market becomes the country’s financial hub, or simply never knowing the real worth of the Lebanese pounds in your pocket, residents have had to accept the various realities and paradoxes of the prolonged economic crisis, labelled as one of the world’s worst in 150 years.

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