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...... When we do go out to dinner, I want to enjoy myself, the food and the company. I have never even thought about taking home leftovers. I would guess that it's very uncommon in Canada. Which is not to say that some people don't do that. And I'm not saying they should or they shouldn't.
Maybe because you don't have a household full of children?
It's really not uncommon with families who have a whole passel of kids. I often see families taking home all the leftovers that the parents and kids didn't finish in a restaurant, especially if it's any kind of Asian restaurant (which we have so many of here). It's a treat for the kiddies too, they look forward to it for a snack later. I don't have kids at home anymore but I still usually have to take extras home for myself because most Asian restaurants here serve large amounts of everything, there's no way I can finish everything at one sitting. (A single small size serving of war wonton soup alone could easily serve as a full meal for 3 of me.) And Asian foods are always still tasty and easy to reheat for a snack or a meal the next day.
I don’t personally find either of them overly expensive, but Beauty’s is an old school neighbourhood luncheonette, Joe’s is a tourist trap on one of the most expensive streets in Boston. Two completely different places.
Comparable would be a place like Gallery Diner in South Boston. Ironically enough Anthony Bourdain visited both Gallery and Beauty’s and loved them both.
Overall, life in the US is less expensive than Canada.....by the way, utility rates, property taxes vary a lot depending on where you live.
Groceries are cheaper (the more you move from basic stuff and the more they are), consumer products are cheaper, automotive fuel is cheaper, housing in general is cheaper.
Finally, the mortgage deduction is a huge ticket .
I think the prices on this menu of a Montreal restaurant are on the high side. I was wondering if these prices are considered high in Canada. BEAUTYS LUNCHEONETTE MONTREAL 1942
I think they are on the high side too, but those are big city prices for city "slickers". If a restaurant in a smaller town or roadside truck stop restaurant or whatever tried to charge those kinds of prices for luncheon items and coffees and hot chocolate they would soon get scorned out of business.
I don’t personally find either of them overly expensive, but Beauty’s is an old school neighbourhood luncheonette, Joe’s is a tourist trap on one of the most expensive streets in Boston. Two completely different places.
Comparable would be a place like Gallery Diner in South Boston. Ironically enough Anthony Bourdain visited both Gallery and Beauty’s and loved them both.
In my part of Ontario, fresh fruit and vegetables are way cheaper than they are in Buffalo, NY. I have also noticed that laundry soap and toothpaste are cheaper here as well.
Americans with private insurance probably generally pay less in healthcare and prescription costs. So I'm not sure the premise is correct.
Most of my adult life, I've had company healthcare that cost me 0, for basically everything. Now I pay like $100 a month out of my paycheck, co-pays are $10 and prescrptions vary from free to $20 or so. I doubt I would save money by moving to Canada and paying for healthcare out of my taxes.
So with some employers you have paid nothing and now you pay 100 dollars per month? It seems like HC costs for an employee in the U.S is highly variable - some get off lucky others don't. It also is highly dependant on an employer footing the bill. If you lost your job tomorrow and had no private insurance what would happen with your healthcare needs?
In my part of Ontario, fresh fruit and vegetables are way cheaper than they are in Buffalo, NY. I have also noticed that laundry soap and toothpaste are cheaper here as well.
I find things of lower quality cheaper in the U.S. For example, you can definitely get certain no name brand stuff at Dollar Tree or Aldi generally cheaper than no name stuff here in Canada. We don't have Aldi - yet. Brand name items of a quality you'd want I don't really find it cheaper. A bag of Cheetos is about the same here as there. A bottle of Tylenol same thing, but you can get a bottle of Dollar tree no name acetaminophen cheaper than Dollorama no name stuff. I'm not surprised about your observations about fruit/produce and other items - I find Americans tend to overplay how much cheaper items are down there. You'd see hell freeze over before you'd here Saturno for example have to admit that some items up here may actually be cheaper but alas, if you do an item buy item comparison of what things cost in a large Canadian city to a large American one, i'm not sure there is nearly as much of a price advantage there.
No longer the case, nowadays you can get very good education online at low prices in the US.
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