Re posts below: Food is not expensive. It is expensive when you have already spent all of your money on housing and transport, obviously. (It is about 10% of m

Re posts below: Food is not expensive. It is expensive when you have already spent all of your money on housing and transport, obviously. (It is about 10% of min wage in UK). That's kind of the point I'm trying to make; if housing is cheap then inflation is actually a reasonable metric. If it takes up most of your income it is really just a measure of 'how much the things you already cannot afford are increasing by'. When you have a stable home, spending money is fine! Until you do, every pence spent is just taking you further away from that stability.