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Originally Posted by charles_reed
When the € was undervalued compared to the £, living abroad in the Med was definitely cheaper than the UK. Now the tables are turned, it's very similar to UK as far as food-shopping (as usual Vyv and I disagree, probably because I use mainland markets not island mini-markets)
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Not a deliberate policy, Charles!
As usual in most matters, it depends. In Greece, which is all I was discussing, meat is very reasonable in price and of good quality, whereas fish is expensive. Most locally grown vegetables are cheap, especially the 'Greek salad' ones: tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, onions.
The expensive foods are the ones they don't produce themselves. Milk is dear, especially UHT. Breakfast cereals are horrendously expensive, £4-5 a box for most of the ones we know. Cheese isn't cheap. even their own goat and sheep-based ones. Imported German beer can be found at 40 cents per 500 ml, whereas their Amstel, Mythos etc is always more than 1 euro now.
Bread is not too bad but doesn't last more than a day.
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