Tokyo Thai<\/a> (spicy tuna roll to start ($5), then their shrimp pad thai ($12). Total with tip: $21 (Much more expensive than what I normally spend on a meal in the U.S., but that’s only because I rarely get a starter, and this is still CHEAP compared to what I’d pay in Canada! I would say the tuna was worth $10 in Canada, plus another $18 for the pad thai, plus tax and tip, so about $35.)<\/p>\n– groceries for the week at Farm Fresh and Dollar Tree: $25 (mostly just fresh fruits, veggies, meats, and mustards as I have lots of pantry staples right now. This would be about $50 in Canada.)<\/p>\n
– 16 gallons of gas (what I consider to be a full tank since the needle is in the red by that point): $49 (This would be about $83 in most of Canada right now.)<\/p>\n
Total: $95 (total I would have spent in Canada: $168)<\/p>\n
These numbers are not exaggerated. My monthly budget in the U.S. for usual household expenses is about half of that in Canada. That means I can apply the other half of the amount to debt, entertainment, and items I put off buying north of the border because they are cheaper here (which reminds me that I really need to get going on finding some new house batteries!).<\/p>\n
I know I’m a guest in this country and that I will need to leave. But I sure wish the U.S. would grant me asylum and let me stay. Pretty please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Going back to Canada after my current stay in the U.S. is going to be brutal. My current level of income is enough to do just a tad better than scrape by in Canada, but it allows me to live so well in the U.S. because everything is so much cheaper here. This evening, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,635,5,613,3,16,612],"tags":[794,820],"class_list":["post-16124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-north-america","category-rving","category-suffolk","category-travel","category-usa","category-virginia-usa","tag-restaurants","tag-sushi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}