tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864137403667670719.post7707488370593040485..comments2024-01-23T13:06:38.464-05:00Comments on An American Postdoc in Canada: Canadian sticker shocklooniechemisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10770492662026828256noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864137403667670719.post-68448389928912842272011-02-11T09:04:27.186-05:002011-02-11T09:04:27.186-05:00Hey Kristin! So in other words, meat is not so ins...Hey Kristin! So in other words, meat is not so insanely cheap in Canada as in the US. :) Good! I find it absolutely mind boggling that here in the US you can buy a pound of chicken for less than a pound of apples. Something is not right there. I mean, apples grow on trees, chicken, you have to feed them, shelter them, dress them, etc...luboshttp://www.slovakcooking.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864137403667670719.post-90424109034779977652011-02-01T16:46:17.205-05:002011-02-01T16:46:17.205-05:00@Carlo: Thanks for the welcome! My rent here is a...@Carlo: Thanks for the welcome! My rent here is actually cheaper here in TO than it was in the middle of Pennsylvania (go figure) because here, the utilities are included. I feel you on the D.C. thing. Rent would have been twice as much as here in Toronto, though I would have been making a lot more, too.<br /><br />@28: I'm lucky, I have friends and fam in Michigan, upstate NY, AND Pennsylvania! The forwarding fee is certainly obnoxious. I don't know if you observed this in the U.S., but USPS forwards mail to Canada free! And there is such a thing as a free checking account in the States, and.... I could go on and on. It is definitely a nice chunk of change to live here.looniechemisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10770492662026828256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864137403667670719.post-47097233349832111422011-02-01T14:56:31.799-05:002011-02-01T14:56:31.799-05:00I go the vegetarian route at home. Boyfriend? Not ...I go the vegetarian route at home. Boyfriend? Not so much. I don't cook meat at home. I do most of my groceries at the Real Canadian Superstore, and sometimes the prices between them and Loblaws aren't too different. I used to get organic milk, so I'm used to the sticker price, but yes, it is very expensive. My car insurance is more than 2X of what I paid in the States and I have no friends in Michingan I could ship things to. Yes, Canada Post bites you in the behind wiht the prices for everything. Since I moved from the BFs tiny 1BR apartment to a different one on the biolding next door I wanted to fwd my mail to the new one. Almost 50$ to fwd mail a few metres away. I'm sure I lost a thing or two that were sort of important. But I wasn't going to pay them that. It is very, very expensive to live here. I wrote a post about my expenses and taxes in the US vs here.27 and a PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12127977475185688951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864137403667670719.post-47329120745673119462011-02-01T11:11:51.970-05:002011-02-01T11:11:51.970-05:00Welcome to Canada Kristin, get used to it, unfortu...Welcome to Canada Kristin, get used to it, unfortunately. Single-payer Health Care ain't cheap :-( Everything is more expensive, but thankfully less so than it was 5 years ago when the exchange rate was ~0.75/1 USD. You also happen to be living in the most expensive part of the country too. It's not so bad when your living expenses are way less than US prices. When I moved from Hamilton to Washington DC, my rent almost doubled :-(Carlo Artierihttp://carloartieri.com/noreply@blogger.com