To gtf outta there you would have to save every single dollar you made & is willing to starve & be homeless. And if you think spending 2k a month just on shopping alone (excluding living/medical expenses) is pretty good, well sir you must be rich. I've never been up north (don't plan on it now) or lived out west. But out west people pay 2k alone for rent & are struggling.
justanotherbum; SAY WHAT? This is about a 600 percent markup. Stores in general charge approximately 300 percent markup (varies greatly 180 to 400 percent markup) average is 300%
The reasons why products are so expensive, is because Nunavut does not grow any goods, and they maybe have 1% of the foods in the Mart are from Nunavut. It's more expensive to ship foods to Nunavut, there for the foods are more expensive.
If I knew children would be an audience for this video, I probably would have left that part out. Well at least I didn’t say it out loud :-) Good memories up North. Thanks for watching.
Never expected The Horizon here but I gained nostalgia watching this again. About 7 years back, I saw this and composed a project on prices in the north. Still upsetting to see similar prices on shelves years later.
***** The price tags are similar, which makes them more expensive, because they are in American dollars. Maybe not so much in Anchorage, but in more remote places - Barrow, Nome, Unalakleet...
DallasHammster I’m sure the only cities that aren’t remote in Alaska are anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau. Idk anywhere else that’s not remote in Alaska
In Remote Alaska, one has two choices in this situation. 1.) Shop at the nearest store and pay the cost there. Or 2.) Hire a bush pilot to fly it in. The modern bush pilot generates considerable revenue on flying in groceries to people from Anchorage or Fairbanks.
Feldwebel Wolfenstool LOL! I was thinking the same thing!, by moving up there, would force me to lose those extra pounds the cheap ice cream in Ontario doesn't let me!
Cheese was $16.99. Meat varied quite a bit. This is filmed in September when items can still be brought in by boat. I'd expect things to be even more expensive in the dead of winter with frozen waters (no shipping path) and difficult flying conditions.
Food must be flown into Nunavut. The jets flying it in fly full northbound. Southbound trips are empty as there is no cargo destined for the south. Therefore pricing has to reflect the cost of north and south bound flying. Furthermore, most of the food going north is sent as food-by-mail. People order food from grocery stores in northern Quebec and pay postal rates for the shipment. Canada Post subsidizes the true cost of shipping the food.
This applies to all communities in Nunavut! All 3 regions: Baffin, Kitikmeot and Kivalliq 26 stores from whats called the Northwest Company. There's more to it. Hotels, restaurants and transportation in and out of them all.
Pretty shocking. People that don't live there are always shocked when I talked to them about the price of food in northern communities, it's outrageous. How can we expect people to eat healthy when a pepper costs $12.69??!!
There's not a lot of people in the territories would not cost a lot of money to the Canadian government to subsidize their food especially with all the resources they have in the territories
I guess most of us who don't speak Inuktitut, anglicize the name Nunavut. To their credit, not a single Inuit person in either Iqaluit or Pang (including the ones I stayed with) ever corrected my pronunciation. So you guys are free to pronounce Ontario with Inuktitut grammar rules if you'd like :-)
The prices may not be true today with the cargo ships that are now going through the area because of the ice melting. It also depends on what part of Nunavut it is.
I have come back from holiday to Iceland which is considered very expensive to most tourists and they use greenhousse which are heated by geothermal heat to produce some vegetables etc but they still import most things which reflects in the cost of food there.
It's just the cost of importing everything (most of which by plane) and with the rising cost of fuel it makes it even more expensive. There are also large tax breaks for living up north in Canada.
I showed this video 2 my mom, because she often says things like, "That's very expensive." She said she also thought those prices were expensive. So I told her, "The next time you think something is expensive around here, remember that you could be paying just as much if not more for a necessity in Nunavut, Canada." I was born and raised in the Rochester, NY area, so I'm glad I'm from a place where I could be paying these amounts for something @ JCPennys rather than for a necessity.
Still great amounts of yogurts, ice creams, cakes, cupcakes, pancakes, pies, scones, muffins, donuts, waffles, toasts, cinabuns, crepes, and other goodies
I was there on a work term and OMFG! food cost too much, but found away around this I just bought things that could last a long time in Nova Scotia and brought it up with me
Transportation costs not only due to high overhead costs spread over very few people, but also Canada is protecting Inuit habitat and environment by discouraging excess tourism with taxation. Local Inuit use hunting and fishing and other means of obtaining needs without reliance on mass supplies, and that's how they make due. Visiting there is a real experience though. Like anywhere else, you simply plan ahead. Pack with you what you don't wish to buy over there and eat the costs you can't avoid, in order to see a place very few people will be lucky enough to experience in a lifetime. If you make it home, you can learn to use less toilet paper for example or make use of a reusable cloth
Most people who live this far North don't buy groceries like we do everywhere else in Canada. They have their groceries sea-lifted in 3 or 4 times a year, and you stock up, stock up, stock up. Think about - truckers drive for days with loads almost tipping the weigh scales - on ICE roads. This is a dangerous place to get to that only 1 or 2 small companies ship to. Of course they have to pay a premium. A lot of people native to the area live on whale, seal & fish due to the high prices.
@TheFramer38 Nice. I have a few questions: 1) What is the minimum wage (I looked, but couldn't find anything recent). 2) What internet speed do you guys have up there? (Also, is there Rogers/Bell)? 3) Are there electronic shops (Futureshop, Best Buy) or a video game store? Sorry about all the questions. But it's really interesting :P.
Yes It's called "Northern Allowance"Here were I live on BC/Yukon Border (Km 841 Alaska highway)we get $10.35/day 1 person .Household up to 4 ppl 2 person/household over 4 ppl.Get a Cheque at Income tax return time.It works out for me about $2500 after tax and my Wife gets the whole 3800 coz she's a treaty Indian (Cree)So that helps a bit!!!Up in Inuvik and Nunavut the allowance is higher Norther u live more u get!Hope it answers you Cheers
The only way to get to nunavut is through planes and transportation for these goods cost a lot because of the only way to transport food is by plane. You cannot grow crops there because of the ecozone being in the tundra area. Unemployment rates are 40% in nunavut.
If the citizens don't like the prices, start your own cooperative and do it yourself!! What is the average wage in that area? GIVE THE PEEPS FROM THE SOUTH MORE DATA!!!
On another note; Is anyone located in Cape Dyer? I look at weather in places and Cape Dyer seems like the STORMIEST place! You get blizzards 9 or 10 months out of a year and hardly any summer. Is that right? One thing I'm wondering though is it doesn't as cold in winter as decades ago (according to records). Do you think GW is really making an example of itself up there? Anyway, what a place for weather! (Must be beautiful, though)
I suppose ppl there work really ridicously long hours and have 2 or 3 jobs to earn enough money to pay for these essential items. I have been back from Iceland on holiday and thought that country was expensive!!!
It makes sense, considering how harsh the weather is there, and how hard it is to ship stuff there. Plus, isn't it part of the culture to do alot of hunting, so they get alot of their food from that?
Also in ontario or other provinces you can find low prices in groceries like nofrills but is a lot of huge difference in salary and I'm talking for my personal experience due I was living in iqaluit nunavut for 5 years.
I think the stuff is bought at retail price THEN Jacked up for the shipping cost. it's CRAZY. $13 for Orange Juice? $18 for Frozen Pizza? Nice place but way too expensive.
I think even Alaska is cheaper than Nunavut food prices and its also expensive in Alaska. But they have to import everything like the Northern Canadian Providences and Territories have to. But hopefully they make good money to buy the food in the grocery store, which I am thinking they do or they would not have prices like that.
Errrr Ok there's no currency symbol but I'll assume it's Canadian dollars, but I have no idea how much those are relatively or how those prices compare to the rest of Canada. In Romania the numbers are higher than that but the value is far lower.
ya . By the looks of it the salaries are quite high and the taxes effect quite low. The fact the grocery prices are high makes sense but that's a bit overkill.
Often people from elsewhere apply (nurses and engineers) and their salary is often more than the national average and they have their housing, phone, food and trips home covered in their job description. In those cases they are only making money.
Have you ever seen the one TP square method where you make a hole in the centre (save the little piece) stick your finger through, wipe all around then use the little piece you saved to clean between your finger nail! Save your money!
If you think the food prices are high, imagine how much Internet costs there. It can be very expensive and easily over $100/month. I saw an article where someone was paying over $300/month for internet and it is not even that great. Hopefully the fibre line gets put in and then it would make it cheaper, oh wait I am sure NorthwesTel wants to make sure they get their money and still want to charge Nunavut prices for really cheap bandwidth. Probably would be a Southern Canadian ISP's wet dream. Hopefully it can make the internet cheaper as the provider of a proposed Fiber company wants to build a fiber line from Japan to Europe and it would go around the Arctic via Alaska, and Northern Canada.
Michael Horgan nigga, im in the states and my internet is over 100 a month. It aint worth it either (frontier. Pray for me.). I imagine theirs costs their firstborn and an extra tree fiddy a month. XD
If you are from Ontario and visit, you don't get any allowance though. Its one of most expensive places to visit in Canada. Makes Toronto look like a value destination.
I thought Iceland was bad I paid £30 for a dinner meal at a hotel there a few weeks ago at the foot of the vatnajokull glacier. I suppose it cost £60 for a dinner main course in Nunavuk, not sure what that is in dollars
Well it's not like you really could drive to Baffin ISLAND anyway. I don't think there are any Canadian bridges elsewhere in Canada long enough to connect Baffin Island to anywhere on the mainland, to make a road or railway to Iqaluit.
Yes mate, I lived there for 5 years. A bologna sandwhich will cost you what a NY sirloin will in Ontario. It is called GREED. The owners claim it is the cost of shipping without telling you the shipping is government subsidized. Payup of go hunting.
