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Forum: Canada
Jul 5th 2014, 1:57 am
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

Anyway regardless of what I say or do in this thread, I'm not going to get to the equivalent of 3,519 contributions to this website: Cost Of Living Comparison Between Canada And United Kingdom...
Forum: Canada
Jul 5th 2014, 1:25 am
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

Because in one case you're using a coupon and in the other (Canada) you aren't, ergo, not a valid comparison. Simple as that. You can't just assume that everyone who walks into any given restaurant...
Forum: Canada
Jul 4th 2014, 12:09 am
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

You can get vouchers here, I don't tend to look for vouchers when I'm on vacation and happen to roll up at places. For example: http://www.vouchercloud.ca/ To do a valid comparison you have to...
Forum: Canada
Jun 7th 2014, 1:05 am
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

A little bit more than here, we don't seem to have a peak rate, it's just a flat rate. For my house anyway.
Forum: Canada
Jun 7th 2014, 12:40 am
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

What is it per GJ or kWh?
Forum: Canada
Jun 7th 2014, 12:28 am
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

It was this place: http://www.bellaitalia.co.uk some chain that I've never been to before. And it was £52 exactly, what a memory. :lol: I don't remember leaving a huge tip and we only had one...
Forum: Canada
Jun 5th 2014, 9:19 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

I suppose I should try and dig it out, but I know when I first moved here I was worried about the gas bill and back then the price of natural gas was subsidized, so it was a pretty cold month and I...
Forum: Canada
May 29th 2014, 8:48 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

That comparison website does it by country too: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=Canada&country2=United+Kingdom

Seems to agree on the basic utilities. I...
Forum: Canada
May 26th 2014, 11:32 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

So I had a poke around the web and standing charges seem to vary a lot both in Canada and the UK, but I'm going to go with what my local charges work out to, which seems to be 67 cents per day. And...
Forum: Canada
May 23rd 2014, 5:55 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

Less than what I pay, is there any tax?



Sounds like more as it's only 7 and a bit cents in Calgary. 5.92p = 11 cents.



That's more than what I pay now and that bill also includes water....
Forum: Canada
May 23rd 2014, 5:49 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

Because where you are the transmission cost could be unusually high for example compared to the middle of Toronto or wherever.
Forum: Canada
May 22nd 2014, 9:59 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

£14.09 per day? That's got to be a typo.
Forum: Canada
May 22nd 2014, 9:46 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

But that doesn't really tell me anything, what was the breakdown of the bill in the UK and what was the breakdown in Canada and I don't know even know where in Canada you are. I accept the non-rate...
Forum: Canada
May 22nd 2014, 1:55 am
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

Ooh yes, I forgot connection charges, I think this is why Calgary is considered to be so expensive because they are pretty high here. But anyway, just looking at edfenergy.com they're giving me...
Forum: Canada
May 22nd 2014, 1:47 am
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

Well I think I can safely say we use more natural gas per capita in Calgary than southern Ontario based on the weather, but yeah, it is just about possible to manage without AC in Calgary. Couple of...
Forum: Canada
May 22nd 2014, 12:31 am
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

Nope, totally wrong, just went to ukpower.co.uk and it's giving me rates around 14p (aka 26 cents per kWh). In Alberta it's around 7 cents per kWh.

I.e. vastly less. Alberta (and Canada...
Forum: Canada
May 21st 2014, 12:56 am
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

I sometimes think to myself I'm better off in Calgary because you get expats who start up businesses to cater to other expats and usually they do a better job of it than a big business abroad would...
Forum: Canada
May 16th 2014, 8:01 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

But you don't have to go as often because fridges and houses are larger here, which is presumably why the item size is usually larger here too because you can store it. So instead of going say, 2-3...
Forum: Canada
May 16th 2014, 7:56 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

Clearly none of us are users: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Canada&country2=United+Kingdom&city1=Calgary&city2=Birmingham

Calgary v. Birmingham (is Birmingham...
Forum: Canada
May 15th 2014, 10:16 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

The purpose of the exercise is to have a like-for-like comparison. I'm sure there are places in both countries that are cheaper or more expensive, but the logical way to go about it (it seemed to...
Forum: Canada
May 15th 2014, 10:07 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

You get flyers for British supermarkets in Canada? :confused:
Forum: Canada
May 15th 2014, 10:07 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

Well Safeway is owned by Sobey's now. Save-on-foods imx appear to have good prices on a few staple things at the back of the store and they make you walk past everything else to get to them. ...
Forum: Canada
May 14th 2014, 11:24 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

Source? I said bread and cheese were more expensive here. I've got back bacon down as more expensive as well, although the regular awful bacon at Loblaw's is $3.98 (for 375g) and at Tesco their...
Forum: Canada
May 14th 2014, 10:18 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

But you have the Cost Cutter option in Blaine option anyway. If I lived there I think I would do most of my shopping at the Fred Meyer's in Bellingham.

Hmmmmm.... 675g loaf for $1.20

Actually...
Forum: Canada
May 14th 2014, 6:47 pm
Replies: 144
Views: 11,644
Posted By Steve_

Re: Price comparison

So anyway to summarize, the reason things in the supermarket appear to be more expensive than in the UK is:

(a) some things are genuinely more expensive and they would be things you would notice...
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