>>>>You can ride with taxi at Uzbekistan 1USD (for foreigners :), an expensive price ), in Turkey you can only one time ride with city bus at that price. I ate dinner with listening a band in a luxury restaurant at Uzbekistan for 20USD, some in Turkey at least 200USD, I'm sure in Canada must 1000USD.
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>>>You'd be hard pressed to eat dinner for $1000USD in Canada. Luxury services and goods tend to be pretty uniform world-wide except in extreme. Cases. For instance in Vancouver, my wife I can go out to the best restaurant in town (Lumiere) for about $100CAN ($80US) each.
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>>It depends entirely on how much you spend on wine. I was with a friend in Yaletown a few months back. They have quite a few individual bottles of wine over C$1,000, six over C$5,000 and the most expensive was C$12,000.
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>Hi Al. I think "hard pressed" still stands. Excepting speciality foods, which wouldn't be included in either the Uzbeki and Turk dinner, I was able to eat a Cippino's (SP?) with my wife for about $130 total for two of us, including some good wine.

I forgot to mention, the restaurant I was talking about was Cioppino's. We had 2 appys, 2 entrees and 2 glasses of wine (we don't drink enough to justify a full bottle) and the bill was IIRC about $150. So yeah, if you don't go nuts on wine it's not too bad.

I think that expensive wines in restaurants are simply for status/conspicuous consumption. Wine markups are always at least 100%, higher on more expensive ("exclusive") wines and higher again at ritzier restaurants. So if you order a $1000 bottle of wine, you're (conservatively) giving the restaurant $500.

If you're out with someone who really loves you she'll prefer that you keep that $500 for yourself, or spend it on her ;)