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Originally Posted by yerself
I've always fancied a trip to Canada but after reading this article on the Beeb website the other day, there's no way I could afford.
BBC News - Who, What, Why: Why does a cabbage cost $28 in Canada?
Would you pay C$28 (US$27; £18) for a cabbage? $65 for a bag of chicken? $100 for 12 litres of water? That's not the cost of a meal at a world-class restaurant, but the price of basic foodstuffs at supermarkets in the territory of Nunavut, in northern Canada. |
Well, in Nunavut, with an area about eight times that of the UK and a population less than that of Hyndburn, you don't don't find a discount convenience store on every street corner. Well, maybe you do 'cause there are only a couple of dozen streets in the territory.
All those foodstuffs that you consider to be part of a normal diet have to be flown in, in hazardous conditions. This is value added on steroids. Many of the Inuit people follow the traditional life style, which does't include a full English breakfast or pizza.
And if workers from the south are sent in, govt. workers included, they receive a more than generous "northern allowance" which allows them to splurge on luxuries such as cabbage
