God New Zealand is shit (or is it?)

when i went to london in 2010 i was very surprised at grocery store prices. I had simply assumed heading to a large european city, things were going to cost a lot. They didn't. 

Things have probably changed in the 3.5 years since then but at the time I felt I was essentially paying the same prices as home, but it had a pound sign before it instead of a $. 

Ignoring the nz vs everywhere else argument as I dont have experience living anywhere else so am not that qualified to comment... but i did hear something interesting about food prices a while back.

No doubt that food prices in NZ are expensive in comparison to other countries and also to the general cost of producing the food. Obviously those are the two most important comparisons here but it is interesting when you look at statistics around food expenditure as a percentage of income. Someone told me about this a while ago, so I've googled and the quickest thing I could find relates only to the US where food is very very cheap, so not entirely applicable, but my understanding is that the trend also applies to NZ and most of the 'developed world' (i hate that term);

Food is largely a commodity. It should go down over time. But when you are spending more than half of your disposable income on housing and transport it makes retirement fund saving very hard.

it is pretty mental when you put it like that

We want Brazilians, Uruguayans and Argies please. Plus more Spaniards.

One of the things that I do LIKE about dorkland is that if you see a pale face walking down Queen St it is a bit of a novelty.

Would like to see that happen in Wgtn and ChCh too one day.

Not like Basildon then.

It's all orange skin over there these days innit?

#towie

Only the fair (orange) sex.