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Old 03-14-2007, 06:53 PM
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Wow!

This is sounding better to me all the time!

Since me wife is a smoker, what is the cost of cigarettes?

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Old 03-14-2007, 07:16 PM
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In Sterling they go for 5 bucks a pack. Worse in town. But there is a tabacco shop in Soldotna that sells for like 4.50 a pack for Marlboro's. I don't smoke so I really don't pay attention to thier cost. Copenhagen I can give you the price at every nook and cranny from Homer to Anchorage!

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Old 03-14-2007, 09:39 PM
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Gas was $2.19 a gallon yesterday in Anchorage.

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Old 03-15-2007, 10:20 AM
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Gas was $2.19 a gallon yesterday in Anchorage.
Now that IS a bargain. We are now paying $2.79 for regular up to $2.99 for premium.

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Old 03-15-2007, 02:00 PM
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'Bout the only staple up here that is a bargain

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Old 03-15-2007, 02:54 PM
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The prices of some of the other staples I have read about here is about what we pay here in Vegas. And since the housing market sky-rocketed here in Vegas over the last 4-5 years, the Alaskan housing market also looks like a bargain to us.

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Old 03-16-2007, 11:23 AM
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It also depends on where you live. In the village of Barrow where I live, a gallon of milk is $8...a loaf of bread is $4...and just a one bedroom is about $1500. Oh, and soda is about $10 for a 12 pack.
Wow, I didn't realize. That is more than 100% up from here in California. My stepson just moved to Barrow with his mom and her husband from Arkansas. Her husband claims it was for $8 hr more pay, but I know Arkansas' cost of groceries has to be less than Calif. So for 80% more pay they are now paying around 120% more in groceries. Doing the math I can't see the plus.

I hear the bread is frozen there. Is there no fresh bread or bakery?

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Old 03-16-2007, 11:28 AM
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I lived in Arkansas back in the mid and late 80's. I could get 5 loaves of bread for a dollar, a dozen eggs for 25 cents, 7 lbs of chicken for 2 bucks. 40 dollars worth of groceries would last me a good month!

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I hear the bread is frozen there. Is there no fresh bread or bakery?
Learn to bake...

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Old 03-17-2007, 12:30 AM
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There is a Wonder Bakery here in Anchorage. The only reason the bread would be frozen would be because it sat on the runway or in an unheated aircraft bay.

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