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Can confirm. I lived for a substantial amount of time in Russia, Israel and Argentina, and in a lot of other countries for about a month. Food price comparisons
by golergka 2y ago
Can confirm. I lived for a substantial amount of time in Russia, Israel and Argentina, and in a lot of other countries for about a month. Food price comparisons at sites like Numbeo don't take quality into account at all. May be they can be used to compare heavily pre-processed foods like Doritos, but “block of Parmesan”, “a cheap bottle of local dry white wine” or “1kg of beef” can mean radically different things I'm practice.
- FooBarBizBazz 2y agoAnd, to elaborate, it's those pre-processed foods like Doritos whose prices don't scale with "cost of living". They're expensive imports, luxuries. There's an entire genre of YouTube video in which expats go to grocery stores, and it's instructive. If you want to live cheap, you need to eat like a local, not like a Westerner. (The good news is, that "foreign" diet probably has more whole foods and is probably healthier, so long as you can avoid pathogens.)
- golergka 2y agoOf course it does. Most of these processed foods are produced locally by a license. Do you think Coca-Cola ships the bottles from US all over the world?
- YZF 2y agoReminds me of the "Milky protests" in Israel when people were outraged that a Milky (some sort of processed whipped cream/chocolate milk product) in Germany was cheaper than in Israel (presumably exported from Israel to Germany but cheaper to buy in Germany).