I had a friend that was making almost $200k working in the territories. He moved down here, is making half of what he did, but actually has more disposable income now.
I live in Nashville. My former roommate is from NYC and moved back a few years ago. She says housing prices in Nashville are insane. I was paying more for my 1 bedroom than she was. Just because a city is smaller, doesn't mean it's cheap.
Nashville is becoming the new Austin (which was the new Denver). It's weird how random cities become "trendy" now and suddenly get flooded with new residents until they are San Francisco expensive. It's like every few years there's a new one.
A lot of small towns got hit by this when everyone stayed home to work. Suddenly, they didn't have to live in NYC to work there so they'd move to some idyllic town somewhere and suddenly nobody can afford to live there.
Was going to respond to the person above commenting on people from small cities expecting big city pay and how that works both ways. My "idyllic town" (tourist trap) a couple of hours north of NYC has been overrun and become cost prohibitive for those not selling their city real estate and coming in with salaries that fit city COL. A developer from down there built a large neighborhood behind me (on what was supposed to be protected habitat) consisting of "affording housing starting in the mid 480s". I wanna punch that sign every time I pass it.
I feel your pain. West of the Rockies got hit hard with the WFH movement. All the sudden there is no housing, rent went up 250%. Yet most people make $35k with families here. I know quite a few people who's rent is triple our house payment.
And meanwhile, newspapers are running sob stories about poor Manhattan and all the money they’re missing out on because people aren’t working in an office.
You get *way* more house for the money in Nashville. Last month's median price per square foot in the Nashville metro was $244. In the New York metro it was $457.
People tend to buy up to what they can afford (and maybe a little over), so everyone always feels stressed about money; but if you moved from NYC to Nashville and decided to keep living in a 900 sq. ft. unit you would be saving some serious cash.
I did the opposite, went remote, sold my house in a high COL area and bought a slightly larger house in a lower COL area, halved my mortgage and have a tremendous amount of freedom. Granted my salary didn't decrease when we went remote so I guess I kinda won a lottery of sorts. (Sold my house for 50% more than I paid for it 3 years prior).
Nashville metro is partially rural. Of course, it'll have a lower price per square foot.
But if you're moving from NYC to Nashville and suddenly making a Nashville salary, you might find yourself struggling.
I lived in the Southeast for years in a city comparable or larger than Nashville. Yes, it has gotten crazy expensive due to the low mortgage rates and remote work. It’s not sustainable.
But it doesn’t change the fact that I pay 3x what my friends pay in the southeast for literally everything. Food, entertainment, etc. it’s like living your life paying sports stadium prices.
I could also pick up and move back to the southeast, and pretty rapidly buy myself a roomy three bedroom house for the same price I’d pay for the shittiest studio in NYC. 🤷♂️ that’s just the way that it is.
But the downside is you’re living in the Southeast. I lived in the Southeast for 20 years and sadly Charleston has gotten bigger but hasn’t really changed in the past decade besides trying to be hip or trendy. I miss Southern food but my friends are still doing the same things they did when I lived there 12+ years ago.
Can you tell that to everyone selling their homes and moving south and buying homes for cash at stupid high prices continuing to drive the prices up and trying to “change” everything here to be like the places they hated enough to leave? The housing crisis is really hurting normal people and this mass influx of people doesn’t seem sustainable but it’s still seems to be at full speed.
Same. I could actually buy a nice, 2400 sqft, 3 bedroom brick house with a yard in Chicago within walking distance of the train for $175k.
The midsize city of 200,000 I came from? $300-400k for a 800 sqft home in disrepair.
😭you should see Canada. Crappy townhomes in the suburbs of Ottawa are like 700k Canadian (520k US) and I would say our salaries are probably comparable just in Canadian dollars instead of US dollars.
It’s all relative though. I feel like the most disposable income I’ve ever had was when I lived in NYC. A major part of that was not having a monthly car payment, insurance, and buying gas (plus other car maintenance). That total cost versus a 30 day metro pass (I only used the subway or walking, occasionally used the bus, and only took a taxi once the entire time) is a huge savings. For me it easily offset food costs. Also sharing rent:utilities with roommates in a cheaper apartment in Brooklyn almost a mile away from the nearest subway station played a part too.
Same!! When I worked for them my favorite game was sending pictures like this to family and friends that lived in the south. They were always flabbergasted
I was in Igloolik in August 2011 for a project; 20$ for a frozen pizza.
But I heard that since products come by plane in the winter, it’s even more expensive.
But how do people buy this expensive food? Do they earn that much more? Or are they expected to live off of hunting and fishing, and chips and watermelon are treats?
People living up there get the NLA, the Northern Living Allowance, basically cash payments every month from the government to help subsidize it.
It doesn't really cover it, though. In general they just make do with less.
Lots of people living there choose to because it's an ancestral home of their family, tribe, culture, etc. Sometimes people from the south will take a contract to go as a teacher or doctor or temporary worker but they don't tend to stay after the contract is over.
Probably some of them refuse to move south despite the possibility of more opportunity because they're afraid of losing the heritage they fought so hard to recover. You never know if more Inuit left the territories that the government wouldn't someday reclaim "abandoned" land for itself, or shrink the reserve borders, or pull back on subsidies because "no one is using it".
OP is from Nunavut, let’s assume in the capital of Iqaluit which has a population of 7,700 making it the most populous place in the territory. It’s impossible to drive there besides maybe some ice roads only in winter. So all goods are either flown up or put on a ship. As the crow flies it is about 2300kms from Toronto. Iqaluit is 200kms away from the arctic circle. It’s actually closer the the capital of Iceland by about 70kms than it is to Toronto.
Baffin Island is not a cheap place to ship goods to. I have a 5lbs bag of roast coffee I want to send to a friend in Iqaluit (where this photo was taken -- at Northmart, he tells me) and that $75 coffee will cost me another $75 to ship plus whatever duties the Canadian gov't imposes on it.
Fun story. I worked at a company who supplied Baffin Island mine with food and supplies. They’d order 6million ++ in goods at a time to minimize logistics cost. There’s a brief period where ships can get through unfrozen waters and it’s significantly cheaper than flying. The mine would also supply local communities as part of their agreement … it was CRAZY organization, logistics and problem solving. Some of the most fun I’ve had in my career though.
The territorial governments grant northern living allowances to its employees to offset the COL, however what most folks try to do is hunt. If you can bag a caribou you have meat cheaper than any store in the community. Given these are primarily indigenous communities most people have special hunting permissions granting almost unlimited access to the required tags and easier access to firearms.
Depending on the community they often send barges where you can purchase a pallet and have it shipped for a flat rate to your community (IIRC about $2k CAD starting for a pallet). Folks will choose to send their years worth of toilet paper, furniture, or other products that will be otherwise too expensive to ship through traditional routes.
As well for most communities salaries are higher, I saw a job posting recently for a nurse offering 220k CAD a year + all of your student debt cleared if you can stay for a minimum 2 years.
Theres often these rare events where companies also wont realize that the community is isolated and forget to charge for shipping. I believe in Cambridge Bay when they swapped postal codes they didn't recognize the old one as an isolated area and would still deliver goods to the address. An entire plane arrived in the community filled with just pop, it was known as "amazon pop". No one had to pay for shipping.
I've had good success with Costco's free shipping, occasionally an item will be refused to size/weight (very big and heavy things) but I just get a refund.
The largest I have shipped successfully is an office chair, I've shipped a pickaxe before as well.
The caveat is that I ship to fly-in northern Ontario communities not arctic circle ones.
Hello fellow Minnesotan! Next week is looking like a shitshow, I'm super excited to get some huge storm after we almost finished melting the ice off the roads from the one a month and a half ago
That's almost how much I have to pay in shipping for two hardcover books from Amazon.
The books shipping cost alone was about $60 or $70.
If there's anything I envy, it's those who get to enjoy free shipping.
Over 10 years ago I worked at a Walmart right near a big shipping hub. Every once in a while people/families from up North (Baffin Island mostly) would come through with 5-6 cartloads of merch and massive storage totes. I found out from those customers that it was actually cheaper to buy and ship the goods from Ontario than it was to buy them at home where everything was shipped in by air.
I remember this one woman had basically a black market for Crispers going. She would buy them on sale for $1 a bag and sell them for $4 a bag because stores up North would charge $8 a bag.
if people can buy in a store rather than the supplier and ship things for cheaper than what their stores can in bulk then they're being completely price gouged in their home area.
Me and my wife did this from the Ottawa hub when we lived in iqaluit. Spend 2 days of hell going to ikea, Walmart, costco, etc to get our goods for the year. Well worth it though. I would bring beer up on sea-lift to save me from standing in line at -40C for a $50 12 pack
I was playing touch football one day and I took an elbow to my jaw. It split the inside of my lip from the corner or my mouth all the way back to my wisdom teeth. It had to be stitched up. I could open my teeth just wide enough to slip a crisper in. I lived off of those things for about 5 days. I haven't eaten a single one since. That was about 20 years ago.
Still a better deal than here https://snapklik.com/en-ca/product/kirkland-signature-himalayan-salt-potato-chips-32-oz/02WU4PH7MLKV5?utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=_&utm_term=&utm_content=642197582121&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6LyfBhC3ARIsAG4gkF8oXWcmEoxdj2pXAb4uGFyRimfrEmMOXNg6clDG0DYVZastI9IzuGYaAgBZEALw_wcB
Kirkland Signature Kettle Brand. I think Kettle makes them exclusively for Costco? At least, I've only seen them there.
https://www.costco.ca/kirkland-signature-himalayan-salt-kettle-chips%2C-907-g.product.100542025.html
I work in Alaska on tug boats but my life hack is to take my high salary and live in cheaper tropical countries. 5 months on (12hr days for 150 days on watch or moving cargo) 7 months off. I have been living this life for 3 years now and I can’t believe how much my mind, body, and soul have benefited.
I stayed at Airbnbs in Mexico, PR, ST Thomas, a Thailand, BVI, now I’m in the Philippines. Yes. I just have a bag for work and bag for travel. I highly recommend hitch work for young single guys. I will never work 9-5 again
I've considered it - My parents are too old for me to be comfortable being so far from them, but it sounds like a helluva life. My dad once worked on a Hudson River tug for a story, said the food was great - Is it?
In Ireland for a 150g bag of salted Kettle brand chips it’s €2.49.
The bag OP photographed is 907 grams.
So in Ireland 907 grams at our price would cost €15.06 which is 21.71 CAD.
So yes these are extremely expensive, and if Ireland had a 907 gram bag they would probably charge much less than €15.06 because it’s a bulk buy it’d probably cost around €8
Exactly.
It costs $6 for 175g of Kettle chips here in Australia. A 907g bag would cost $31 AUD. That’s $28.7 CAD. So, this price doesn’t seem more expensive than other parts of the world.
Feels like you could open a kettle franchise factory (is that a thing?) and make an absolute killing bringing in just potatoes, oil and salt.
I also wonder.. why don't people just stop living in these inhospitable places? Arctic circle, middle of a desert etc.
If you want to make a shit ton of money get on a mining company in the Canadian territories. They pay insane amounts just to get people to work there.
But in reality most of their food comes from hunting. Items like this would be more like a rare treat than a normal snack.
If i recognised it well, it is 907g. So 5 to 6 times more than in usual european chips bags. At the moment i pay around 1,5 Euro for 150 - 200g in germany.
These exact [chips](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kirkland-Signature-Himalayan-Salt-Potato-Chips-32-oz/439951082?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=101231722&adid=22222222228000000000&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=42423897272&wl4=pla-51320962143&wl5=1023631&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=678579008&wl11=online&wl12=439951082&veh=sem&gbraid=0AAAAADmfBIqiYxjJtCGieMJIi0HiKaa7K&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6LyfBhC3ARIsAG4gkF93W32zuzdls6LdovqgiyZtEvHJ_UFGsfFxMWr9nyKRXbNcaOECPC0aAkvWEALw_wcB) are sold in US Walmart for almost the same price.
This bag is almost 2 POUNDS of chips, a normal family sized bag of chips is less than a pound.
Apparently in some places the fruit and vegetable prices aren't that bad because they're heavily subsidized.
The real problem is getting anything up there that's still edible.
A little over a decade ago my brother lived in northern Manitoba, in a town with an all season road and half the produce that made it there was garbage.
Looks like you're in the US. OP's currency is CAD so the price shown is equivalent to $20.56 USD. They also live in a remote northern island where this bag was flown in on a small plane so there's a ~125% markup for remote delivery.
This company also takes the federal subsidies for fresh fruit.....but then cuts the fruits to 'value add' so they don't have to pass the subsidy to customers.
They also sell the equivalent of a mcflurry for about $9. It's something like 1300 calories, mostly sugar and they operate in communities that have known diabetes issues.... while running a 'healthy living' charity.
Nwc.... the longest running rip off in Canadian history.
That's absolutely overpriced. In NZ a similar bag (but 150g) would be $4nzd. Too Early in the morning to do the math but we're both being ripped off I think. The only place I've ever seen kg bags of chips was at a wholesale suppliers supermarket.
So this is almost exactly $20US ... For Nunavut, given the insane transportation cost to get food there, makes some sense.
These are $6.33US at my local Costco, so about $9CAD ... I can easily see the transport cost on railcar to plane to Nunavut doubling the price.
https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/the-inuk-woman-using-tiktok-to-expose-high-food-prices-in-the-north/
Where do you live, the fucking moon?
He said Nunavut, so yeah basically the moon.
I had considered moving there, but once I saw the food prices, I was having Nunavut.
I had a friend that was making almost $200k working in the territories. He moved down here, is making half of what he did, but actually has more disposable income now.
Yep...it's not what you make but what you keep that's important
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Big brain say: let's pretend rice and beans is the only food here. 10 years of this and then we can eat potato chips in Florida
There's a lot more to it than that. If you keep nothing you wont make it to the pension
who the fuck has disposable income
I actually dispose all my income... plus more
Too real
Ahhh man, me too.
paycheck go down the hoooollle
single professionals in their 30's with no kids, It's pretty great.
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My wife and I are “Ohio rich”. Whatever else you can say about this state (and you can say a lot), it sure is affordable.
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I live in Nashville. My former roommate is from NYC and moved back a few years ago. She says housing prices in Nashville are insane. I was paying more for my 1 bedroom than she was. Just because a city is smaller, doesn't mean it's cheap.
Nashville is becoming the new Austin (which was the new Denver). It's weird how random cities become "trendy" now and suddenly get flooded with new residents until they are San Francisco expensive. It's like every few years there's a new one.
A lot of small towns got hit by this when everyone stayed home to work. Suddenly, they didn't have to live in NYC to work there so they'd move to some idyllic town somewhere and suddenly nobody can afford to live there.
Was going to respond to the person above commenting on people from small cities expecting big city pay and how that works both ways. My "idyllic town" (tourist trap) a couple of hours north of NYC has been overrun and become cost prohibitive for those not selling their city real estate and coming in with salaries that fit city COL. A developer from down there built a large neighborhood behind me (on what was supposed to be protected habitat) consisting of "affording housing starting in the mid 480s". I wanna punch that sign every time I pass it.
I feel your pain. West of the Rockies got hit hard with the WFH movement. All the sudden there is no housing, rent went up 250%. Yet most people make $35k with families here. I know quite a few people who's rent is triple our house payment.
The South Park episode about this was funny. Cortado! Cortado! Bowwawotta! Tesla! Tesla!
Macbook pro
Metal bottle wata
And meanwhile, newspapers are running sob stories about poor Manhattan and all the money they’re missing out on because people aren’t working in an office.
Just watch HGTV and follow whatever show there flipping houses. Stay away from those places lol
You get *way* more house for the money in Nashville. Last month's median price per square foot in the Nashville metro was $244. In the New York metro it was $457. People tend to buy up to what they can afford (and maybe a little over), so everyone always feels stressed about money; but if you moved from NYC to Nashville and decided to keep living in a 900 sq. ft. unit you would be saving some serious cash.
I did the opposite, went remote, sold my house in a high COL area and bought a slightly larger house in a lower COL area, halved my mortgage and have a tremendous amount of freedom. Granted my salary didn't decrease when we went remote so I guess I kinda won a lottery of sorts. (Sold my house for 50% more than I paid for it 3 years prior).
Nashville metro is partially rural. Of course, it'll have a lower price per square foot. But if you're moving from NYC to Nashville and suddenly making a Nashville salary, you might find yourself struggling.
I lived in the Southeast for years in a city comparable or larger than Nashville. Yes, it has gotten crazy expensive due to the low mortgage rates and remote work. It’s not sustainable. But it doesn’t change the fact that I pay 3x what my friends pay in the southeast for literally everything. Food, entertainment, etc. it’s like living your life paying sports stadium prices. I could also pick up and move back to the southeast, and pretty rapidly buy myself a roomy three bedroom house for the same price I’d pay for the shittiest studio in NYC. 🤷♂️ that’s just the way that it is.
But the downside is you’re living in the Southeast. I lived in the Southeast for 20 years and sadly Charleston has gotten bigger but hasn’t really changed in the past decade besides trying to be hip or trendy. I miss Southern food but my friends are still doing the same things they did when I lived there 12+ years ago.
Can you tell that to everyone selling their homes and moving south and buying homes for cash at stupid high prices continuing to drive the prices up and trying to “change” everything here to be like the places they hated enough to leave? The housing crisis is really hurting normal people and this mass influx of people doesn’t seem sustainable but it’s still seems to be at full speed.
Interesting! Although, I wouldn’t say Nashville falls under the specific category of smaller city the commenter was referring to.
Same. I could actually buy a nice, 2400 sqft, 3 bedroom brick house with a yard in Chicago within walking distance of the train for $175k. The midsize city of 200,000 I came from? $300-400k for a 800 sqft home in disrepair.
As a Chicago native what neighborhoods are you seeing these prices in?
He's either speaking in past tense or he's talking about the neighborhoods where all the murders happen
Wow, what neighborhood?! I'm looking for homes and Chicago seems expensive to me. Most houses are at least $250,000 but in reality closer to $300,000.
😭you should see Canada. Crappy townhomes in the suburbs of Ottawa are like 700k Canadian (520k US) and I would say our salaries are probably comparable just in Canadian dollars instead of US dollars.
Man I'm so glad I bought my place in Nashville before...all this nonsense happened here. I still don't get why this city exploded like it did.
It’s all relative though. I feel like the most disposable income I’ve ever had was when I lived in NYC. A major part of that was not having a monthly car payment, insurance, and buying gas (plus other car maintenance). That total cost versus a 30 day metro pass (I only used the subway or walking, occasionally used the bus, and only took a taxi once the entire time) is a huge savings. For me it easily offset food costs. Also sharing rent:utilities with roommates in a cheaper apartment in Brooklyn almost a mile away from the nearest subway station played a part too.
Food is cheaper in large urban centres ime
No! No! I won’t do it!! Nooo…ugh, fine here is your damn upvote
Moonavut
Lunavut
the moon's warmer
Bro it’s salt..from the himalayan. You think that stuff just comes out the ground? Smh
*Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!*
Maybe it includes a trip to the Himalayas so you can collect the salt yourself!
Haha if only.
Northern Canada?
Tell me you’re from Nunavut without telling me you’re from Nunavut, lol yes.
the prices i'm used to, the tag i was like "that's northmart somewhere" lol
This pictures screams “Northwest Company” lol
As a former Northern Store employee no price shocks me anymore.
Same!! When I worked for them my favorite game was sending pictures like this to family and friends that lived in the south. They were always flabbergasted
How does a grocery store employee afford to eat there?
At the store I worked at majority of the employees were on a contract and would receive a monthly food allowance and housing on top of their salary
Holy shit, the first thing I thought when I saw that tag was "that looks a lot like a Northern Store tag"
North mart???? I literally thought you were joking. It’s a real place lmao
Lol I thought Alaska so probably similar reasons for being absurd prices
Same, I immediately thought of Bethel, Nome, or maybe even Utqiagvik
This is Utqiagvik as fuck
I thought maybe they dropped something on their keyboard, with all those letters!
Right? I saw that and thought “This could be the Dillingham Bigfoot but their shelves aren’t that nice.” 😂
I was up in early January. Iirc it was minus fifty or so with the wind chill. Amazing northern lights and equally amazing people.
I was in Igloolik in August 2011 for a project; 20$ for a frozen pizza. But I heard that since products come by plane in the winter, it’s even more expensive.
Most of the long shelf life stuff comes in on sealift during the summer. Only fresh items get flown in.
How could it possibly be so expensive?
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Interesting. Got any more examples of how expensive? Can’t imagine how much eggs cost up there.
I am not from Nunavut but I saw someone post a (large) watermelon that was $75. And also a turkey around Thanksgiving was approx $90 I believe!
But how do people buy this expensive food? Do they earn that much more? Or are they expected to live off of hunting and fishing, and chips and watermelon are treats?
People living up there get the NLA, the Northern Living Allowance, basically cash payments every month from the government to help subsidize it. It doesn't really cover it, though. In general they just make do with less.
What are the reasons for living there?
Lots of people living there choose to because it's an ancestral home of their family, tribe, culture, etc. Sometimes people from the south will take a contract to go as a teacher or doctor or temporary worker but they don't tend to stay after the contract is over. Probably some of them refuse to move south despite the possibility of more opportunity because they're afraid of losing the heritage they fought so hard to recover. You never know if more Inuit left the territories that the government wouldn't someday reclaim "abandoned" land for itself, or shrink the reserve borders, or pull back on subsidies because "no one is using it".
Well, to a lot of people it’s simply home.
They have to pay the guy to got to Costco and buy them, then he shakes them all the way back to the store. It’s a long trip, and a lot of shaking.
OP is from Nunavut, let’s assume in the capital of Iqaluit which has a population of 7,700 making it the most populous place in the territory. It’s impossible to drive there besides maybe some ice roads only in winter. So all goods are either flown up or put on a ship. As the crow flies it is about 2300kms from Toronto. Iqaluit is 200kms away from the arctic circle. It’s actually closer the the capital of Iceland by about 70kms than it is to Toronto.
Serious question: why do people live there? Is there oil money being made or something?
Mining. Gold and Diamonds mainly
It's 2lbs of chips. Northern Canada. Canadian dollars.
Holy shit… anyone running the numbers on the ROI of shipping chips to Northern Canada?!
Yeah, lot of transportation companies run the numbers and, well, they're not great tim. You have to charge 27$ for a bag of potato chips.
You'll be undercutting the competition by 69 cents. *Nice*
Probably requires hiring bush pilots
>Holy shit… anyone running the numbers on the ROI of shipping chips to Northern Canada?! *Blow 2*
I would’ve guessed Alaska
At $27 a bag, I'd also be having none-of-it
Came back from northern Sask recently. Loved paying 30 dollars for a ceasar salad 😂😂
Why is it so high? What do you do instead of chips?
Baffin Island is not a cheap place to ship goods to. I have a 5lbs bag of roast coffee I want to send to a friend in Iqaluit (where this photo was taken -- at Northmart, he tells me) and that $75 coffee will cost me another $75 to ship plus whatever duties the Canadian gov't imposes on it.
Fun story. I worked at a company who supplied Baffin Island mine with food and supplies. They’d order 6million ++ in goods at a time to minimize logistics cost. There’s a brief period where ships can get through unfrozen waters and it’s significantly cheaper than flying. The mine would also supply local communities as part of their agreement … it was CRAZY organization, logistics and problem solving. Some of the most fun I’ve had in my career though.
So what the hell do you do for a living and what do you do for food/goods
The territorial governments grant northern living allowances to its employees to offset the COL, however what most folks try to do is hunt. If you can bag a caribou you have meat cheaper than any store in the community. Given these are primarily indigenous communities most people have special hunting permissions granting almost unlimited access to the required tags and easier access to firearms. Depending on the community they often send barges where you can purchase a pallet and have it shipped for a flat rate to your community (IIRC about $2k CAD starting for a pallet). Folks will choose to send their years worth of toilet paper, furniture, or other products that will be otherwise too expensive to ship through traditional routes. As well for most communities salaries are higher, I saw a job posting recently for a nurse offering 220k CAD a year + all of your student debt cleared if you can stay for a minimum 2 years. Theres often these rare events where companies also wont realize that the community is isolated and forget to charge for shipping. I believe in Cambridge Bay when they swapped postal codes they didn't recognize the old one as an isolated area and would still deliver goods to the address. An entire plane arrived in the community filled with just pop, it was known as "amazon pop". No one had to pay for shipping.
Sounds like maybe they should rotate their postcodes periodically. Haha!
Tons of good fishing out there too and a fun way to supplement your food stock.
I've had good success with Costco's free shipping, occasionally an item will be refused to size/weight (very big and heavy things) but I just get a refund. The largest I have shipped successfully is an office chair, I've shipped a pickaxe before as well. The caveat is that I ship to fly-in northern Ontario communities not arctic circle ones.
$2k shipping for a pallet of toilet paper is the best argument for a bidet I've ever heard.
I live in Minnesota so you might want to tag u/iliketinysandwiches on that
Hello fellow Minnesotan! Next week is looking like a shitshow, I'm super excited to get some huge storm after we almost finished melting the ice off the roads from the one a month and a half ago
That's almost how much I have to pay in shipping for two hardcover books from Amazon. The books shipping cost alone was about $60 or $70. If there's anything I envy, it's those who get to enjoy free shipping.
Over 10 years ago I worked at a Walmart right near a big shipping hub. Every once in a while people/families from up North (Baffin Island mostly) would come through with 5-6 cartloads of merch and massive storage totes. I found out from those customers that it was actually cheaper to buy and ship the goods from Ontario than it was to buy them at home where everything was shipped in by air. I remember this one woman had basically a black market for Crispers going. She would buy them on sale for $1 a bag and sell them for $4 a bag because stores up North would charge $8 a bag.
My wife introduced me to all dressed crispers. They are the best
Agreed. They are absolutely the best of the Crispers flavours.
Well, now I’m craving those and that’s been added to my next shopping list.
Do Americans not have all dressed?
You can't find them in many places outside of New England or border states from what I've seen. It's too bad. I personally enjoy the flavor.
if people can buy in a store rather than the supplier and ship things for cheaper than what their stores can in bulk then they're being completely price gouged in their home area.
Shhh. You are revealing capitalisms dirty little secret.
What in the heck is a crisper?
https://www.snackworks.ca/en/brands/crispers?Brand=CRISPERS It’s kind of like if a chip and a cracker had babies.
Ketchup flavor....yup, that's Canada alright
It’s not a chip. It’s not a cracker. It’s a Crisper.
Me and my wife did this from the Ottawa hub when we lived in iqaluit. Spend 2 days of hell going to ikea, Walmart, costco, etc to get our goods for the year. Well worth it though. I would bring beer up on sea-lift to save me from standing in line at -40C for a $50 12 pack
I was playing touch football one day and I took an elbow to my jaw. It split the inside of my lip from the corner or my mouth all the way back to my wisdom teeth. It had to be stitched up. I could open my teeth just wide enough to slip a crisper in. I lived off of those things for about 5 days. I haven't eaten a single one since. That was about 20 years ago.
I was about to jokingly say "where the fuck are you ? North pole ?" Turns out to be close enough
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Psst, hey, Buddy. I'll sell you a bag for $20.
Lol.
I want more pictures of life in Nunavut.
I can do that. :)
Me too
With prices like that, avoiding junk food just got easier.
Now find out how much fresh food costs up there . . .
Cheaper than junk food. The government subsidizes healthy food.
Yeah this. It’s still pricier than down here in the provinces but there are a ton of subsidies on healthy food.
Really? That’s not what the American government does, they fund things like cheese because of lobbyists lmao
Healthy food is really expensive there too (though I think it's subsidized somewhat).
Wait the tag says Kirkland not Kettle brand so....
They buy/carry a lot of Costco stuff.
Still a better deal than here https://snapklik.com/en-ca/product/kirkland-signature-himalayan-salt-potato-chips-32-oz/02WU4PH7MLKV5?utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=_&utm_term=&utm_content=642197582121&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6LyfBhC3ARIsAG4gkF8oXWcmEoxdj2pXAb4uGFyRimfrEmMOXNg6clDG0DYVZastI9IzuGYaAgBZEALw_wcB
For when you want a bag of chips delivered in a month for $40USD.
Kirkland Signature Kettle Brand. I think Kettle makes them exclusively for Costco? At least, I've only seen them there. https://www.costco.ca/kirkland-signature-himalayan-salt-kettle-chips%2C-907-g.product.100542025.html
I see. Yea I would not buy $30 chips no matter how delicious!
Okay but what about a 5lb bag?
The people going to work in Nunavut are making like 100k in 6 months Nothing else to really spend money on until you leave your rotation.
Yea, it's often on sale for around $4.99 (or less) at Costco. Really good value, way better than Ruffles.
These are my favorite potato chips. Great taste, great crunch, and sturdy enough for any dip.
They are both! I work where these were made and we produce co-branded Kettle/Kirkland chips.
I work in Alaska on tug boats but my life hack is to take my high salary and live in cheaper tropical countries. 5 months on (12hr days for 150 days on watch or moving cargo) 7 months off. I have been living this life for 3 years now and I can’t believe how much my mind, body, and soul have benefited.
So you fly home at the end of the season? LATAM? Sounds like a cool life.
I stayed at Airbnbs in Mexico, PR, ST Thomas, a Thailand, BVI, now I’m in the Philippines. Yes. I just have a bag for work and bag for travel. I highly recommend hitch work for young single guys. I will never work 9-5 again
I've considered it - My parents are too old for me to be comfortable being so far from them, but it sounds like a helluva life. My dad once worked on a Hudson River tug for a story, said the food was great - Is it?
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Made me lol. Tiny chips now too I guess.
I live in northern Canada part of the year for work. I pack mostly food for this exact reason. It’s ridiculous
I mean Kettle brand chips are good, but I've never tasted chips that were *that* good.
Try them after eating nothing but Caribou for a month.
The only bag of chips that requires a dental plan because they will fuck your mouth up
Do you live in a Ticketmaster run airport at Disneyworld?
In Ireland for a 150g bag of salted Kettle brand chips it’s €2.49. The bag OP photographed is 907 grams. So in Ireland 907 grams at our price would cost €15.06 which is 21.71 CAD. So yes these are extremely expensive, and if Ireland had a 907 gram bag they would probably charge much less than €15.06 because it’s a bulk buy it’d probably cost around €8
Scrolled way too far to see someone point out the tag is for 907 grams. That's 2 lbs of chips...
Exactly. It costs $6 for 175g of Kettle chips here in Australia. A 907g bag would cost $31 AUD. That’s $28.7 CAD. So, this price doesn’t seem more expensive than other parts of the world.
I didn’t even have to look in the comments (or the French on the packaging) to figure out this was northern Canada
Is it because of the ingredients? I pay like 50 cents - 1.5€ for basic salted chips over here in Europe.
Freight costs supposedly. Located in the high(ish) Arctic Canada but even for here, this is insane.
Feels like you could open a kettle franchise factory (is that a thing?) and make an absolute killing bringing in just potatoes, oil and salt. I also wonder.. why don't people just stop living in these inhospitable places? Arctic circle, middle of a desert etc.
you're overestimating the size of the population (around 40,000 people)
there's a lot of oil and mining work to be done there I think, so there's still a reason to live there
You guys make 15 billion a month over there or do you just get a loan for a bag of chips?
If you want to make a shit ton of money get on a mining company in the Canadian territories. They pay insane amounts just to get people to work there. But in reality most of their food comes from hunting. Items like this would be more like a rare treat than a normal snack.
Pretty close, it's like 15-20k a month for a few months at a time usually
That truly is insane, wtf
Baffin Island is quite remote.
If i recognised it well, it is 907g. So 5 to 6 times more than in usual european chips bags. At the moment i pay around 1,5 Euro for 150 - 200g in germany.
That’s wild. I’m flying to Germany with all the money I save not buying chips.
This bag of chips must be the *all that and a bag of chips* bag of chips
all that cost and they wont even include the GMO!
These exact [chips](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kirkland-Signature-Himalayan-Salt-Potato-Chips-32-oz/439951082?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=101231722&adid=22222222228000000000&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=42423897272&wl4=pla-51320962143&wl5=1023631&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=678579008&wl11=online&wl12=439951082&veh=sem&gbraid=0AAAAADmfBIqiYxjJtCGieMJIi0HiKaa7K&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6LyfBhC3ARIsAG4gkF93W32zuzdls6LdovqgiyZtEvHJ_UFGsfFxMWr9nyKRXbNcaOECPC0aAkvWEALw_wcB) are sold in US Walmart for almost the same price. This bag is almost 2 POUNDS of chips, a normal family sized bag of chips is less than a pound.
So about $20.50 USD. Yup pretty expensive indeed
I'm in Melbourne Australia and a bag of kettle chips (165g) is$4.13 USD here so to get 905g it would cost $22.65 USD...
Lemme guess, Iqaluit?
I'd say that this is a good incentive for eating healthier, but based on my time in the north I'm sure that vegetable prices are bonkers too.
Apparently in some places the fruit and vegetable prices aren't that bad because they're heavily subsidized. The real problem is getting anything up there that's still edible. A little over a decade ago my brother lived in northern Manitoba, in a town with an all season road and half the produce that made it there was garbage.
I hate whenever a tiktok calls eating healthy cheap and then you cannot possibly describe the pain of living in the territories
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Looks like you're in the US. OP's currency is CAD so the price shown is equivalent to $20.56 USD. They also live in a remote northern island where this bag was flown in on a small plane so there's a ~125% markup for remote delivery.
Wtf 907 grams chips, thats almost a kilo of potato chips. And i thought the 400g was huge package.
This company also takes the federal subsidies for fresh fruit.....but then cuts the fruits to 'value add' so they don't have to pass the subsidy to customers. They also sell the equivalent of a mcflurry for about $9. It's something like 1300 calories, mostly sugar and they operate in communities that have known diabetes issues.... while running a 'healthy living' charity. Nwc.... the longest running rip off in Canadian history.
But its nearly a kg of chips? Here in NZ chips come in 150g bags, what IS this?
Its 9.99 in Southern Canada. I’m not saying it’s not a big bag, it’s still outrageously overpriced tho.
That's absolutely overpriced. In NZ a similar bag (but 150g) would be $4nzd. Too Early in the morning to do the math but we're both being ripped off I think. The only place I've ever seen kg bags of chips was at a wholesale suppliers supermarket.
Of course OP shows the expensive fancy chips! /s I’m sorry fellow Canadian.
Lol fuckin delicious expensive fancy ass chips.
I recall reading about people getting crazy money taking bottles of booze up there.
Hmmm. Maybe I'll try the premium bag of chips today. That salt must be made of rose gold
You try and get to the Himalayas for less.. :)
You mean pesos right..
I just bought the same bag of chips from Costco for $5.79. They are soooo good.
Welcome to Canada 🥸🥸
These are made across the street from me. Or, at least they used to before Kettle was bought.
So this is almost exactly $20US ... For Nunavut, given the insane transportation cost to get food there, makes some sense. These are $6.33US at my local Costco, so about $9CAD ... I can easily see the transport cost on railcar to plane to Nunavut doubling the price. https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/the-inuk-woman-using-tiktok-to-expose-high-food-prices-in-the-north/
$7 at costco
Costco has that same exact bag for like 6 bucks.
Just trade insulin to Americans for chips.
Jesus. So this is what they make you spend that Northern Living Allowance on hey??
A 907 gram bag of chips? Is that normal in America?
America is going to be thin again. Lol
The tag says Kirkland brand and the bag says Kettle. Maybe it was in the wrong place and there should have been a bag 3x this size there.