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.
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!
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.
***** 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
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.
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??!!
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.
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 :-)
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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!!!
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.
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
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 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!!!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
No, it's not expensive. Nunavut is very cold and cannot grow stuff like apples, bananas, etc. They have to trade with warmer province's/territories. They have to spend money to get fruits and veggies. That's why it's so expensive.
The only way to transport goods is by planes and planes cost a lot of money. Think about an Amazon package. This is why most of the inuits are outraged
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 $300/month for internet and it is not even that great. Hopefully the fibre line gets put in and then it would make it cheaper, oh wait I am sure NorthwesTel wants to make sure they get their money and still want to charge Nunavut prices for really cheap bandwidth. Probably would be a Southern Canadian ISP's wet dream. Hopefully it can make the internet cheaper as the provider of a proposed Fiber company wants to build a fiber line from Japan to Europe and it would go around the Arctic via Alaska, and Northern Canada.
Michael Horgan nigga, im in the states and my internet is over 100 a month. It aint worth it either (frontier. Pray for me.). I imagine theirs costs their firstborn and an extra tree fiddy a month. XD
OMG! I seriously wonder how people can afford their groceries there... I can understand the 13$ for a pineapple... but the bread! juice! and freaken diapers... I wanted to find a job there and live this experience but this absolutly crazy...
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
Not too different from Canadian grocery prices throughout the country. Canada has some insane grocery prices on certain products compared to grocery prices in European supermarkets.
Everything there is flown in that's why it is so expensive, My friend lives there and says you have to have a license to buy beer and it's a limited amount per person because there is such a short supply, have to remember that the pay there is better as well(if you can get job there), minimum wage is $11, you will get way more if you have a rare skill found in the area, my buddy is a pharmacist and gets double what he got here in Ontario
There is prohibition in just about all Nunavut villages, and a huge problem with it creating a black market for alcohol bootlegging. Iqaluit is the exception to the rule on this one, where they have the most liberalized alcohol laws in the whole territory.
The olive oil and orange juice are two moderately priced items. Olive oil is about $18 here for the good stuff. Shoot, those prices are bad, but I'll tell you what's really bad...paying $21 for one can of Coca-Cola from Russia. I did :3
Folks out there get host of special tax deductions and special Northern living/hardship allowance on top of salary to compensate. Prices are higher as there are no normal road connectivity and most food is non-local, mostly flown from Montreal once a week.
I don't believe the min wage is that high for the ordinary person who lives there because another expensive place the country of Iceland it said it was not uncommon for most ppl there to have 2 or 3 jobs and work 60-70 hours a week
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!
It cost a lot for 2 reasons. First, it costs a fortune to ship groceries there. Second, the grocery store owner in each town have a monopoly and charge what they want and the townspeople have no choice but to pay for it. Pay or starve. Its easy to blow a hundred bucks eating out at the local burger joint for lunch and supper. A medium coke costs 9 dollars alone. Nice place to visit, but wouldn't want to live there.
Well the problem is with Nunavut to get the Groceries hall into fly it Cargo can cost as much as 5 dollar for a kg.So the most economical way to get the groceries in from Edmonton(closest Major City)through the Alaska and finally the Dempster Highways that 3200 km or 2000 miles.Normally a 2/half day drive.But it can be a 5-7 days drive if the Dempster is in a bad shape Winter time.That is what makes the Grocery prices so high and u can't grow produce locally less u bring in earth 4 gren house
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)
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.
Yeah, except Nunavut is northern Canada, so the prices are in CDN, which is basically equal to the USD at the moment. So they are really paying $79 for diapers
Diet soda requires CO2, flavor, artificial sweetner, and water. You can make it yourself cheap. Some places have natural mineral water which means carbonated water made by Mother Nature.
I would invite anyone complaining about the prices to open a store and charge what you think is fair. You might last a day or so before you went broke. Most of the items weren't necessities neither. Ice cream, pop, disposable diapers, doritos, ready made lean cuisine meals, mayo.... Remember that there's lots of game and fish up there and the people could live (and die) just like they did 1000 years ago if they really wanted to.
Justin B Not really. We cloth diaper and it’s waaaay better. And, at $80 a bag for disposables, I imagine most Nunavut moms and dads do. That’s good too as I imagine landfills are rather difficult with a constantly frozen ground.
Slosh Mike You'll notice that some of the very expensive things are produce and toilet paper/diapers. For produce, this is because it needs to make it's way there within a couple days before spoilage and takes tons of fuel. For bulky items, it's taking up space and weight that could have given room for other items. It makes sense to me, but definitely sucks for anyone who wants to live there.
I'd rather use my grocery money to buy a plane ticket out of there...
A 1 way ticket from north to south would cost you 2k.
So, about the cost of a month's shopping up there? That's pretty good!
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.
stacyboudreau123 A little comment for jokes goes a long way for someone with no sense of humour whatsoever.
***** US Dollar to Canadian Dollar is a difference of about 16 cents. Google it.
*at the store* What can you afford? Nunavut.
stop.
Nice...Honestly though, getting somewhat fresh blueberries in the Arctic for only 100% markup is reasonable, if you ask me...
That's funny but it's harsh up there and I really feel for the people.
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%
Because everything is brought in the summer by ship from Montreal, or in a real pinch flown in from Montreal or Toronto.
$ 84.00 for disposable diapers, I'd be using news papers.
L.O.L, that's funny.
actually is 80 dollars
150 dollars for a newspaper
You are all wrong, it's actually $79.99
David McMillan LOL
This video is actually pretty frightening. I was really scared when watching it at midnight.
John Zhang Same. Even worse, I slowed it down to catch each price clearly. Spookiness.
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I'm from Nunavut 😊😊😊😊😊
Christina Tapatai Do you consume those extremely expensive goods in the supermarket or hunt for your self and eat kiviak?
@@christinatapatai699 My condolences.
Lol on $14 ice cream in the Arctic.
it has other ingredients lol
just get some snow and sugar lol
Who needs icecream when the climate is already often sub-zero temperatures?!
Annette Perkins your damn right because its soo freezing really I wonder who is stupid enough to buy ice cream
That's hilarious!
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.
+The illuminati thanks capt
wouldn't have guessed
Thanks. Captain obvious
Quit your complaining...i don't wanna hear Nunavut.
You know how much of this place is livable? None of it. That's why this territory is called Nunavut.
good lord I remember my teacher showed this to our class years back, and when he lip synced the cuss word, the whole class went wild
haha that's amazing!!
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.
@@astin6984 glad to hear this video had some influence and helped your project. it's indeed upsetting that northern prices are still so high.
@@astin6984 Can attest. I remembered this video and came back to it, only to feel like some of the prices aren't even that bad...
Basically, they have Whole Food prices on everything
Tessie Dobey L
Lmao 😂
How do people in Nunavut afford their food? Honest question.
I've always wanted to know this, too.
they usually get shipping containers full of food at discounted rates.
They don't eat food like usual canadians do...
Government ... ?
they avoid the "touristy" areas.
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.
I could lose this extra 20 lbs. if I stayed there a while...
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!
yeah you'd lose the weight of your wallet for starters
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.
Considering that the prices are in Canadian dollars, at least they're doing better than Alaska.
***** 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 yo why you replying to nobody
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
@@xxbabymegalodonxx2474 Even Juneau is remote in Alaska. You can't even drive there from Anchorage.
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.
When I worked on the pipeline in Alaska they charged me 6.50 for a Dr Pepper at the company commissary
I'll buy Nunavut at those prices!
It's expensive because they have to pay the crazy transportation cost that the airlines charge.
Nice, the music gave me cancer. Thx man!
"Can I have a pack of gum?"
"That will cost you $36.76 sir"
lol...
Well, we are talking about the *Arctic*. Importing and exporting is expensive the farther you ship. So that's _very_ reasonable for Nunavut.
SO YOU'RE CONSIDERED RICH IF YOU HAVE CHEEZE WHIZ.
+sixfeetontop No. Here in nunavut we think its normal.
cRektz Tengo entendido que el salario mínimo es $13.00 y no cobran impuestos. ¿Es cierto?
Psst...I know a guy...
Let along the cheese whiz, toilet paper!!!!
No, it's just cheese whiz lmao?
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??!!
Fuck that I'm going hunting
Good luck trying to hunt down
Seals, polar bears, and narwhals
That's actually what many folks there do.
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.
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 :-)
Everything has to be flown in there so the insane prices are just covering transportation cost.
mcaddicts dont bother explaining the obvious to idiots
I agree
+mcaddicts is this even US currency
No it its the Canadian dollar.
mcaddicts So is it really that bad in comparison ?
I would love to see that part of my country, but the airfares are very expensive, too.
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
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.
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.
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.
Iceland is nowhere nearly as cold as Nunavut. That's why greenhouses have some practical and economical use there. Nunavut is in the Arctic.
Typical grocery shopping ~$250
Nunavut grocery shopping $800
Wow
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
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!!!
I laughted sooo much at the end when the dude is like " what the fuck " with the washing product xD
7 years later nothing has changed much price wise.
shit I thought we had it bad in England, but sod paying those prices lol
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.
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
I just applied for a job up there but this makes me reconsider!
I wonder what happened
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 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!!!
nicenac a normal job is from 9-5. An average person in Nunavut gets paid about $20-$30 an hour
@@DustinEgbert
You mean the average Nunavut native or the transients and government workers who make make up the majority of those with a job there?
how do people survive with prices like that? it si completely mental
They hunt for most of their food. Typical of most impoverished areas.
The pine apple was a little surprising. I would have thought a tropical fruit would have been more expensive.
I'm pretty sure Sir. John Franklin wished there was a North Mart. The fact that you can even get bread, blueberries, and orange juice is a miracle.
$80.00 for diapers!!?!?!?!?!? IM TAKING NUNAVUT!
How the hell do people even earn enough money to afford this?
They don't; they live off the land for the most part up there and supplement their needs and desires with the grocery store.
Live off the land? How?
King Stannis Baratheon
I think kilderok means things like fish, polar bears etc
Whaling, seals and fish. There is nothing like clubbing a baby seal to death on a Friday afternoon to get your weekend started right.
Nope, polar bears are protected. They have been for 40 years. They whale, seal and fish.
what is that crazy song?
Makes me want to bootleg food into Northern Canada.
looking at those insane prices, i guess i cant afford nun-uv-et
How about an updated video, after all it's 2017 now, 8-years later.
Good thing I live in a province not a territory. If I lived there, I probably would have been crying for help.
Lmao we're watching this in geography class
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.
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.
I'd love to move up there one day, but the price of living up there is redonk and the only thing that deters me.
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
cost of living in nunavut is more expensive than other provinces?
Everything that makes it to the arctic must be flown in. There are no roads from the south, so if you want a pineapple. It must be flown in.
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.
@@carultch
Exactly.
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.
After watching this, I will definetly stop complaining about prices in Toronto. That is totally insane, literally one hour of work equals an onion!
Yes, but they have to ship some of the food up to Nunavut because it wasn't produced there.
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.
People lived up there for thousands of years without a Northmart. Must of done OK because they survived the winters.
Crazy and I thought it was expensive living in a rural reserve in Ontario lol
No, it's not expensive. Nunavut is very cold and cannot grow stuff like apples, bananas, etc. They have to trade with warmer province's/territories. They have to spend money to get fruits and veggies. That's why it's so expensive.
Or maybe it's also because the only way of getting fresh produce into the territory is by ship or air. Mostly by air.
Qi Li
We can't grow bananas in England but you don't have to remortgage the house to buy a bunch.
The only way to transport goods is by planes and planes cost a lot of money. Think about an Amazon package. This is why most of the inuits are outraged
@@anonUK
But England is more than well-populated and is itself a major market.
Its because minimum wage is higher by 2.65 dollars in any other province.
Not really. The only people there with jobs work for the Feds.
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 $300/month for internet and it is not even that great. Hopefully the fibre line gets put in and then it would make it cheaper, oh wait I am sure NorthwesTel wants to make sure they get their money and still want to charge Nunavut prices for really cheap bandwidth. Probably would be a Southern Canadian ISP's wet dream. Hopefully it can make the internet cheaper as the provider of a proposed Fiber company wants to build a fiber line from Japan to Europe and it would go around the Arctic via Alaska, and Northern Canada.
Best Internet over there has a 50gb cap!
Michael Horgan nigga, im in the states and my internet is over 100 a month. It aint worth it either (frontier. Pray for me.). I imagine theirs costs their firstborn and an extra tree fiddy a month. XD
And limited to a really low cap.
OMG! I seriously wonder how people can afford their groceries there... I can understand the 13$ for a pineapple... but the bread! juice! and freaken diapers... I wanted to find a job there and live this experience but this absolutly crazy...
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
Not too different from Canadian grocery prices throughout the country. Canada has some insane grocery prices on certain products compared to grocery prices in European supermarkets.
John Are you joking?? I’m in Alberta and prices for groceries here are more than half the cost of this. In other provinces it’s even less
It's still cheaper than what the grocery stores charge in Barrow, where not only are the numbers higher, but they are also quoted in US dollars...
Prices are way too high I don’t want Nun of vut
Close to grocery prices in Australia. No jokes, guys. Blackberries are the same price. Mouthwash is about the same, orange juice is six bucks, etc.
hehe I thought the price of food in Iceland was expensive when i was there a few weeks ago on holiday until i saw this.
Everything there is flown in that's why it is so expensive, My friend lives there and says you have to have a license to buy beer and it's a limited amount per person because there is such a short supply, have to remember that the pay there is better as well(if you can get job there), minimum wage is $11, you will get way more if you have a rare skill found in the area, my buddy is a pharmacist and gets double what he got here in Ontario
There is prohibition in just about all Nunavut villages, and a huge problem with it creating a black market for alcohol bootlegging. Iqaluit is the exception to the rule on this one, where they have the most liberalized alcohol laws in the whole territory.
The olive oil and orange juice are two moderately priced items. Olive oil is about $18 here for the good stuff. Shoot, those prices are bad, but I'll tell you what's really bad...paying $21 for one can of Coca-Cola from Russia. I did :3
Folks out there get host of special tax deductions and special Northern living/hardship allowance on top of salary to compensate. Prices are higher as there are no normal road connectivity and most food is non-local, mostly flown from Montreal once a week.
This video is the greasiest video i've ever seen LOL
I don't believe the min wage is that high for the ordinary person who lives there because another expensive place the country of Iceland it said it was not uncommon for most ppl there to have 2 or 3 jobs and work 60-70 hours a week
this is why we need portals.
You know there are parts of Alaska like this that are very friendly to Americans....look up Barrow, Alaska, it's the same thing...
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!
It cost a lot for 2 reasons. First, it costs a fortune to ship groceries there. Second, the grocery store owner in each town have a monopoly and charge what they want and the townspeople have no choice but to pay for it. Pay or starve.
Its easy to blow a hundred bucks eating out at the local burger joint for lunch and supper. A medium coke costs 9 dollars alone.
Nice place to visit, but wouldn't want to live there.
That price in 2010. The price in Ontario in 2017 is catching up.
OMG !!! more expensive product in japan.
They’re that expensive because it has to be shipped across the bay
Well the problem is with Nunavut to get the Groceries hall into fly it Cargo can cost as much as 5 dollar for a kg.So the most economical way to get the groceries in from Edmonton(closest Major City)through the Alaska and finally the Dempster Highways that 3200 km or 2000 miles.Normally a 2/half day drive.But it can be a 5-7 days drive if the Dempster is in a bad shape Winter time.That is what makes the Grocery prices so high and u can't grow produce locally less u bring in earth 4 gren house
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)
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.
Nunavut is NOT Greenland! Nunavut is a territory of Canada, and as such, it uses CANADIAN currency!!
Yeah, except Nunavut is northern Canada, so the prices are in CDN, which is basically equal to the USD at the moment. So they are really paying $79 for diapers
Well of course. It’s nearly impossible to get stuff up there. Simple supply and demand.
Diet soda requires CO2, flavor, artificial sweetner, and water. You can make it yourself cheap. Some places have natural mineral water which means carbonated water made by Mother Nature.
I would invite anyone complaining about the prices to open a store and charge what you think is fair. You might last a day or so before you went broke. Most of the items weren't necessities neither. Ice cream, pop, disposable diapers, doritos, ready made lean cuisine meals, mayo.... Remember that there's lots of game and fish up there and the people could live (and die) just like they did 1000 years ago if they really wanted to.
Norman Wells I would say diapers are a necessity if you have a baby
Disposable diapers are a modern travesty. And then God created Proctor & Gamble? I don't think so.
Justin B Not really. We cloth diaper and it’s waaaay better. And, at $80 a bag for disposables, I imagine most Nunavut moms and dads do. That’s good too as I imagine landfills are rather difficult with a constantly frozen ground.
Norman Wells
We regularly have orange juice in England- and that's a good thousand miles from the nearest orange grove.
Slosh Mike You'll notice that some of the very expensive things are produce and toilet paper/diapers. For produce, this is because it needs to make it's way there within a couple days before spoilage and takes tons of fuel. For bulky items, it's taking up space and weight that could have given room for other items. It makes sense to me, but definitely sucks for anyone who wants to live there.
We can not even come close to those prices for organic at the farmers market. WOW!!
So if you compare Barrow AK, Inuvik NWT, Iqaluit NU, and Nuuk Greenland, which one has the highest cost of living?
Watching this from 2023 January 25 in Philadelphia. Prices are close to these now depending on item & store!
Haha the prices seem less and less crazy with each passing year