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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Legit. I grew up in Vancouver. When I moved to London (UK) to be with my wife I was blown away by how cheap food was. Prices are rising, inflation, COVID, Brexit, etc. still, I pay less than £2 for 2 pints(bit over a litre) of milk.
A standard shop for 2 weeks is usually around £80-100, but we get easily double what I'd get at a grocery for $80-100 PRE covid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So you are paying CAD$3.73 for 1 l of milk. Meanwhile, I am paying less than twice that for 4 l of milk in Ontario. You aren't making a very good case for the UK being cheaper.

It's also affected by salaries. The UK minimum wage is about $22 per hour, compared to about 17 in Canada. On the other hand, a web developer like me earns an average of about CAD$68,000 in the UK, versus around $80,000 in Canada.

The big question is the cost of housing, but I don't know what it is in the UK.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I got into the weeds a bit more in this comment.

Before I moved from Vancouver I was working piece work, so paid by the square foot of stone installed(I'm a stone mason). I was making about the equivalent of $40/hr. With cost of food, cell, vehicle insurance, fuel, etc. I had to live with 3 other people, my rent was still about $1000/month, $1500+ with bills. For a room.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Whats it like now?

I have no point of reference because the only time I was there was for 2 weeks in 2010, and the only groceries I ever did was a single run to Sainsburies and a visit to Tesco every other day for 1-2 things

that might as well have been a lifetime ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't mean to discredit the point you were trying to make, but isn't £80-100 worth almost double $80-100? A 1L carton at my local store is about $3 or £1.60 (equivalent of £1.80 for 2 pints). Seems pretty similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

That wasn't really a great example without context. When I moved to London 2 pints of milk was 60p, 500g of really good cheese was £1.50 maybe. Rent on the last 2 bed my wife and I rented in London was £1100. The last 2 bed I rented in greater Vancouver, so 2017ish, was $3000.

My monthly car insurance before I moved in November 2020, even with exchange rate, is ⅔ of my ANNUAL cost here. My cell plan is £24pcm and I get 500gb of data, plus global roaming. 1kg of chicken breast that I just picked up today for dinner was £2 and change.