Told littleun about baguettes this morning and had pangs of homesickness for going to Asda in the evenings and getting the morning's baguette for 16p. A bloody metre of delicious crusty bread for pennies. Baguettes over here are like two or three dollars!
I sent some American mates pictures of the cakes and biscuits aisles last time we visited and after they'd stopped drooling at the variety and colours they went "...wait, is ALL the food that cheap?!"
Housing and electronics and consumer durables in general are more expensive in the UK but Christ compared to Americans the British eat like kings for a bloody pittance.
Also littleun asked if after the granolavirus is over we can go to England and go to Asda and buy some more magazines. That's a thing they have in England that I haven't found in the states, magazines for the under-5's. Can't bloody find them in America because the under-5's can't read :(
Surprisingly, a lot of foods are also cheaper in the UK than in say Eastern Europe, where wages are much smaller. And I don't only mean "cheaper relative to wages" but actually cheaper nominally, dollar for dollar.
