Would be super curious to learn how cost of living is affecting other countries. I do understand that hn demographics skew higher income, but I feel like here in Germany almost no one is fully insulated.

For me, my expenses after rent and health insurance jumped almost 75%. I don't own a car and generally don't spend much outside of good food and drinks. Things like beef mince is 3 times the price it was a year ago. Cheese and similar products rose by something like 50% at least. Now there's talks about heating bills (often times around 5% of income) rising 7-fold... I'm still quite safe myself, but increasingly feel like this is going to destroy a lot of lives around here, and have major consequences for everyone.