So gauche. No wonder you blend in so well with the troglodytes.

Oh Wow!!! troglodytes i need that word (whats it mean)

Meaning here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglodyte

thanks tried googling and got a photo of a bird nesting

Aren't we all in upper .05% of the world's population in terms of net worth? I mean, I have a whole flock of chickens, that be quite something if I was in Somalia.

You'd have the extended families of women requiring marriage, lining up at your door, dbd.

On a tangential connection to the thread topic: are you thinking of returning to Somalia from Canada?

Was that question directed at Howard1944?

No, read the reply from dbd (included above for your convenience).

However, you could always ask Howard if he has any urges to do so?

I feel as if I have that already.

"If you aren't living life on the edge, you're taking up too much room.

Mean what you say and do what you mean for those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."



Howie's little motto........now why am I not surprised!

I'm not sure how long it is since you shopped in the UK but I think you'll be surprised at how much food costs are rising in the UK now. They are rocketing. Your cheese costs look pretty much the same as here. You won't get a small block for much less than 3 quid. It's not just food thats going up in price. Everything is! Middle Englanders are really suffering at the moment and it's going to get much worse before it gets better.
I'll give you a wave as we pass over the Atlantic!

Hi

We been back 2 years in the UK and noticed food gone up. My wife tried the advice from TV to cut costs and dropping the premium brands and found its helped. Also having supestores a few miles from our village helps with the budget.

We lived rural Alberta and Ontario and found food so expenive compared to my income. In Alberta our food bill was 40% of my take home pay and Ontario 28%. Supermarkets where we lived we owned by one family

No TESCO or Sainsbury type of superstores in rural Canada. Supermarkets where we lived we owned by one family, so no discount food or 2 for one deals. I can remember 10 years ago we paid $1.20 (60p) for a simple can of beans.

Some things were cheaper, PEPSI colca, Chips(crisps), Steak and Kraft dinners, but these were not part of our diet..

Currently in the UK our family food bill is 15% of my net income. In the UK we are custom to cheap food(read this in a Canadian book about life in the UK).

It was not the main factor for us to return to the UK. But having good foodstores at reasonable prices was definitely an attraction for us to return.

hudd

Meat is much much much cheaper here in BC than where I came from in the UK. I don't know if this link will work or not but this is a typical flyer of prices here in Kamloops.

http://safeway1.inserts2online.com/s...?drpStoreID=89

I'm back in the UK every few months, and I can say Canada is extremely expensive in terms of basic staple foods like bread and milk and cheese etc. Twice as expensive in absolute terms and even more if you factor in the lower Canadian wages. Supermarket own brands are a lot better value in the UK.

Baby stuff is another nasty one, nappy's wipes etc, which ties in conveniently with the milk. In quebec your prescription costs are subsidised by 70% which hurts when some medication costs 300$, you still have to pay 90$ for something which would be around 7 quid in the UK. Every time my kid needs antibiotics (sometimes 60$) I have to fork out, in the UK it would be free as my kids are under 16.

Petrol on the face of it seems cheaper in Canada but you really need to spend out a lot of money for a decent economical vehicle. In fact second hand cars are way way more expensive in Canada, most vehicles are gas guzzlers so fuel costs end up being the same as the UK.

In most of Canada heating costs are massive, my heating is running often contiously from the end of October until the middle of April, it's minus 23 outside as I write, my heating is working overtime. That's big money!!