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Yes! I think you nailed it.
If I didn't recently spend 2 months living abroad with the family, I probably wouldn't have even thought twice about it.
In Taiwan, you can walk anywhere and grab food for dollars. I always had a container in my backpack to cut down on waste. I could grab something filling, often healthy for about $1 or $2 Canadian. (Not crap either. I could get a decent serving of veggies at a sit down place for $1.25 ish).
I just looked up Taiwan's min wage it is a monthly salary, assuming 40 hr work week (I don't know this is the case) it works out to about $7.50 an hour.
So half of Ontario's min wage but prepped food felt a lot less than half there. We could sit down and do dinner for about $15 Canadian for two adults and two kids, the cost of a sandwich here. We rarely leave a restaurant in Canada under $60-80 here.
There's something so exclusionary about food here. It is really expensive relative to wages yet this is the land of plenty.
T Chu 朱 /
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2024-03-22 15:28:49
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