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Old Mar 16th 2017 | 1:23 am
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99s.

It is extraordinarily expensive to obtain an ice cream cone and a flake here.
 
Old Mar 16th 2017 | 3:47 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33
99s.

It is extraordinarily expensive to obtain an ice cream cone and a flake here.

So you're saying you've got 99s problems but the *beep* isn't one?
 
Old Mar 16th 2017 | 5:02 am
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Originally Posted by Shakyuk
So you're saying you've got 99s problems but the *beep* isn't one?
Oh no, I'm rich bitch, I want a 99, I eat a 99.
 
Old Mar 16th 2017 | 5:58 am
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car insurance lots cheaper in the uk was only paying 100 odd pounds full comp...now $1200 ,,,uk was a new diesel car ..Canada gmc sierra,(but Toyota echo was $1000) and gluten free food a good 50+% cheaper in the uk than here. work boots lots more expensive in Canada.
 
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Oh no, I'm rich bitch, I want a 99, I eat a 99.
I am but a man amongst Gods...
 
Old Mar 16th 2017 | 9:43 am
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Originally Posted by Shakyuk
I am but a man amongst Gods...
Well, in truth, I share a 99 not getting much of the flake. But making a 99 does feel like something a rich person would do, maybe even use Haagen-Dazs.
 
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Originally Posted by beckiwoo
Really? I always thought Starbucks worked out the same or cheaper out here
Yeah, or at least inline with CDN prices. Compared to British based coffee shops like Nero or Costa, it's on average 10% more expensive.
 
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Originally Posted by wasss
I am moving to Canada just over a month's time and curious to know what things are cheaper in the UK and Canada?

I've read clothes and over the counter drugs like ibuprofen are cheaper in the UK, anything else?
In the UK: Your soul.

In Canada: Girls

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Old Mar 16th 2017 | 8:50 pm
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Originally Posted by dbd33
Well, in truth, I share a 99 not getting much of the flake. But making a 99 does feel like something a rich person would do, maybe even use Haagen-Dazs.

The perils of having a female companion... they have a chocolate gravity field and a never ending appetite for consumption...
 
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Originally Posted by withabix
Decent stuff is about $35-$50 in Canada.

I took some over as a gift, only to find the same bottle was about 25% cheaper in the UK
I buy good syrup for $24 at the sugar bush.
 
Old Mar 17th 2017 | 10:02 am
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Originally Posted by withabix
As for 'Council Tax', at my last house in the UK it was a fraction of the $6000 that I pay here in a 'standard' single family home
I remember commenting several years ago that the tax on my 2 bed terraced home in Bristol was only slightly less than the 4-bed detached home with double plot here.

Curious, I just looked up the old house and it's still similar. Current exchange rate puts the Moncton one at $50 more for the year.

I wonder what the UK council tax would be if they had to include a Canadian snow clearing budget.
 
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Curious, I just looked up the old house and it's still similar. Current exchange rate puts the Moncton one at $50 more for the year.:
Most councils froze council tax from 2010-2015, because they were only allowed to raise it by a maximum of 2%, and if they didn't raise it at all, Government gave them a grant of 1%. So they took the 1% raise-equivalent and the public glow of "no rise!".

I think some of them are now realising how many million quid a year more they'd have if they'd done 2%, as they contemplate the cuts they have to make to balance budgets.
 
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Originally Posted by Oink
In the UK: Your soul.

In Canada: Girls

interesting!


Although in Wigan there's many girls that are yours for the price of a kebab with garlic mayo...
 
Old Mar 20th 2017 | 9:13 am
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I did a weekly shop in Tesco with my mum- dutiful son and all that- I reckon most food is cheaper in the UK, you can buy alcohol in Tesco, good range of beers in the store- I bought a massive bag of Wotsits and another one of Quavers- marmite- big pot, way cheaper- mini pup stocked up with Caramels and Dairy Milk and Mr Kiplings fondant fancies
 
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Sanitary towels, pads,and the like are cheaper in the uk.
 


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