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If you have the opportunity to work mobile with your laptop and have need to have a power socket to charge your battery or power up your laptop, one good and cost effective alternative suggestion other than the often crowded MacDonalds is Subway.
Located in major shopping malls and popular neighbourhoods, it is usually not hard to find a subway whereever you are. Majority of their stores have power sockets at some corner of the store and they are usually generous enough to let you tap a little bit of the power without approaching you.
The cost effective part is that buying a drink from them will cost you only $2 plus dollar and should you need a refill, you just need to top up $1 for the 2nd cup and beyond.
A meal, like many fast food, will set you back $6 - $8 but you eat healthier stuffs rather than junk food in MacDonalds or other fast food restaurant. Cheap, I'll say for using the place for a few hours i say. Put it the other way, a normal coffeeshop meal cost you about $4 - $4.50 with drink and a difference of $2-$3 frankly isn't a lot more to pay for for a air conditioned comfort and an area for you to do your work.
Yes, there are other alternatives but to me Subway offers a cheap, non-crowded environment for me to have a good meal and to do my work there at the same time.
