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??!!
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
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 these are people who make $ 22/hr on a job...oil/whaling/ catching crabs...it pays well so they can afford it. Take those prices further south and you will be outta business in 2 hours.
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 can see why the passengers show up with a ridiculous amount of baggage (groceries) leaving Yellowknife for northern destinations on the Dash 7 charters....
Everything is 5 times the price up there but people also make 5 times more than you do. So it evens out. I have a friend whose mother is a psychiatrist. She went up there to work. Before she knew it, she's already got half million bucks in her pocket, flew back south and bought a house.
You realise things are this expensive due to the ridiculous fuel costs to get it there, right? Notice how the heavier items (oil, juice, canned drinks) are proportionately more expensive than small/compressible items. Not rocket science.
That is just mental. No wonder no one can live there. No really, that's why we don't have cities there. it's impossible to have a normal life with prices like that. It's that simple.
@TheJspyder136 Everyone's salaries are adjusted in the Arctic of the U.S. and Canada, in order to afford such groceries. For instance, a store clerk in the lower 48 U.S. states would have $7/hr, but one at Barrow or Deadhorse would have $12-$14/hr.
@ rankeism777 Nunavut is Inuktitut for our land. Just conseder it the traditonal land of the Canadian Inuit (Eskimo). So if you ask me yes it sould exesit. Nalligijara Nunavut! I love Nunavut !
Someday I'll have to compare these prices to the ones at the Metro grocery store down the street where I live, in Hamilton, which is in southern Ontario.
Those prices aren't that bad.They are about the same here.A lot of those prices are for jounk food and sweets that you don't need anyway.Seal,caribou,walrus,char,ducks,geese,muttuk,clams,mussells and fresh fruit and vegetables are all you need.
This must be outside Iqaluit because it does not that coast much! but still it coast alot those kind of price are usually in upper land !and outside Iqaluit
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 :-)
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.
dummies. The people who live in the arctic get a northern living allowance from the government. They get money on top of their high pay which balances everything out. To a northerner $17.00 for some orange juice is cheap! It's not just groceries that are priced like that either. Everyone in Nunavut has a HD tv and they probably paid twice as much as you did for yours. But to them it's cheap because they get tens of thousands of dollars from the government every year just for living there.
@likethepear, Your right, I've met people who have been there, worked there or know people who do, and a job that you would get payed 16$ an hour for in lets say Montreal, you would get 20$ to 25$ an hour for in Nunavut and pay a little less than HALF the tax than another Canadian would if they lived in a province as opposed to a territory.
And like you said, the feds give you a lot of extra $ for living there so in the end everyone up there is swimming in $ (so long as they dont drink) lol
the reason why people live there, including myself is due to the vast amount of job opportunities, which offer large salaries along with many benefits to compensate for the isolation and high cost of living. Also minimal education is required in order to attain employment, often a high school diploma is all that is required to work for the government where you would receive roughly 80 grand a year just starting off. so if you wanna get rich for minimal work move here btwthe highcostgoesfor pot:(
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...
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
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.
These people live in shacks, how can they be expected to be able to afford those prices? This is really horrible. I feel so sorry for anyone who has to live there.
This is one reason why people who take jobs in the north are given additional allowances and an allotment to order items on the annual sea lift. Some people have a sea lift room in there house to store those cases of beans and cereal etc. which come up by ship from Montreal The sea shipping (only in the summer of course) is infinitely much cheaper than having to fly everything in by air..like all those apples aetc. The signs should say: Apples 99 cents/ lb. Air freight $7 a pound. Total 7.99
How much is the Northern Living Allowance? If I lived there I'd probably starve to death on my feet at work, just like in a concentration camp. That is, unless I got a fat assed gubmint cheque to cover my costs of living.
Wanna cut the cost of groceries to remote towns like this? Relocate the store to the harbor so a cargo ship can pull right up and unload directly into the store. Air delivery is the most inefficient way of moving people and cargo. Rail is the best if no waterways are available. Cargo ships costs the least, even if they are slow. To fix that problem, plan the old-fashioned way and don't waste space on trendy junk. Build up inventories of stuff that can be stored and brought out as needed.
@InfiniteMushroom that would be a good idea but knowing it's winter here 8 months of the year how will ships come in?
And another thing we already have werehouses when every year when the ice melts the ships come in, hold the stocks for almost a year and then the supply has run our so at most a month or 2 before the ships come in the stocks start to run out so theres only 1 option and that is through aircraft.
Why is there any shock over this? This is the cost of maintaining a modern outpost, complete with all the comforts that were unimaginable 50 years ago. Just about everything I saw here could be found in any local supermarket in the U.S.
What Ottawa and Nunavut SHOULD do is subsidize local food production, however limited it may be. It is dangerous to foster a culture of dependence on junk food that has to be flown in. What will they do if a national emergency shuts off deliveries for a time?
@InfiniteMushroom That exactly my thoughts. Outsourcing shipping import cost money.That is what is gonna happen EVERYWHERE soon cuz of gatt nafta and all these "trade treaties".
@Wolfboy183 Insulated greenhouses could be for some crops that need it. I don't know what the soil is like but, some food crops could be done via traditional outside farming. They ought to have some kind of big fish processing facility where locally caught fish could be dressed and packaged for wintertime consumption. I wonder if chickens could be kept up there in special barns? A fresh egg ration in the middle of winter is better than no eggs!
well its expensive but heck even the minuim wage here is the highest in canada and they pay you to live up here too sounds good enough for you to shut up?
@fb767 Minimun wage here is $10 an hour which is highest in Canada, the internet is stupidly slow and at times you have to wait a minute to even load a website and yet no Rogers/bell here as far as I know, and yes there is some electronic shops here but not sure every community has em.
Tha's the only questions you ask so thats what you got from a person who lives/works in the North.
@fb767 no Probs glad I could at least help out a little, would have done my version of expensive store here myself but thinking of it now all the editing I would have to do just to make a short video when I don't really have the time.
@GrabaPL Update, this has been in effect for a while but the new lowest rate here is like $11 an hour now, personally don't make that much of a low income but it was on the news so just though i'd share it.
@fb767 You can buy whatever you want via the internet and have it airfreighted up. Best Buy, Future shop and the like along with Sears ship north. Lots of people have lots of stuff. A fair amount of the housing is subsidized so people do have a few dollars to get satellite TV (no good if you are too far north), internet and everything else ot see what they are missing from down south.
Thanks for your reply. Apart from the northern allowance, i heard something about the environmental allowance, fuel/heat allowance, and living cost differential. However I heard if you get northern allowance, you don't get the other ones, and vice versa. is that true? I am working at the hospital for government of nunavut.
If I am packing food up there, what should I pack up, I heard that people bring truckloads there! Mostly nonperishables.
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.
Insane is right. xP Things would probably be cheaper if the north wasn't so sparsely populated; it just isn't cost effective to send small shipments over.
Good riddance. This is what happens when people actually have to pay for the cost of shipping items to the middle of nowhere. I don't see an issue paying a shitload of money for a PINEAPPLE in the HIGH ARCTIC.
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??!!
isumaproductions 1 week ago
@isumaproductions The prices in Australia for vegetables are about the same. We were paying $13.98 p/kg for bananas.
NikitaOneill 1 week ago
there must be a huge disposal fee in those Huggies diapers. 1 gram of meth costs less.
swankrecords 2 weeks ago
this made me hungry
KonigNick 3 weeks ago
I guess it's worth crying over spilt milk.
slendy20dollars 4 weeks ago
i guess, we should just go back to the primitive way of living.. hunting , agriculture....
groceries prices all over canada are insane, wish i could get my groceries from the US, where you can get a weekly grocery for 20 dollar per person.
SinghKd81 1 month ago
How much does breathing air cost in Nunavut?
TheRaginTiger 1 month ago
....blow job??? at those prices i couldn't afford a warm handshake!
mikee1mollisch 1 month ago
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
fresnchonionsoup 1 month ago
ohLOL :P
what insane pricess
AbbyPostale123 1 month ago
No food is made there besides seafood. Everything else is imported all the way from the central US and Canada at extreme costs.
MIKON8ERISBACK 1 month ago
is this in canadian dollars or us dollars?
KripDrip 1 month ago
@KripDrip It would be Canadian, there isn't much a difference though.
timrupp 1 month ago
@KripDrip candadin :(
Ry88Ma 1 month ago
Welcome to civilization.
cochranexyz 2 months ago
What do people do for a living up there to afford that?......"It's Time To Stop&Shop"
bornyesterday21 2 months ago
Go climb a tree. Oh, i forgot. There aren't any.....LOL
bornyesterday21 2 months ago
How much does an ounce of weed cost?
bornyesterday21 2 months ago
Thank God I live in Florida. Canada sucks.
drewski4144 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@drewski4144 this is Canada's north, southern canada is much better, especially ontario. and in some ways, canada is better than the U.S...
TheYozStudios 1 month ago
@TheYozStudios You're right in some ways Canada is better than the U.S. I can't believe I said it sucks, I must have been drinking! Sorry!
drewski4144 1 month ago
And my mon complains about how expencive things r and when i showed her this i had to get the smeeling salts :D
Coreyruler 2 months ago
lol I thought my city vancouver is more expensive than there !
TheTGT2 2 months ago
Frozen juice is like $8 and in Ontario it's like 89cents in sale and normal price is $1.15. Holy shit I think nunvautians are rich to make a living
bornthisway1020 2 months ago
@bornthisway1020 the governement makes up for them, i think they get like $10,000-$20,000 yearly or something like that...
TheYozStudios 1 month ago
Id hate to see what a blow job costs
kunkymonkey 3 months ago 11
pretty damn normal for me, cuz im from nunavut,..
1997AprilHeartxox 3 months ago
@1997AprilHeartxox how much you is normal worker making there
sask523 2 months ago
well what do you expect? it's like fresh fruit and meat in Japan
SSDecontrol94 3 months ago
WTF!!
op10004 3 months ago
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
TheLouisXXI 3 months ago
HOLO HOLO HOLO HOLD UP! 17 dollars fo a box of cereal....then 79 dollars for some dam pampers >,< Oh hell naw! (lol sorry i had to talk like that)
baegarcia 3 months ago
17 dollars for fucking cheese whiz??
Algonquin81 3 months ago
So, do any vegetarians wanna talk shit about hunting now lol
Algonquin81 3 months ago 5
@Algonquin81 damn right and this is why i trap and hunt year round for my food
nitroexpress700 1 month ago
how much for a xbox360 up there? a million?
TheLegendOfTroll 3 months ago
@TheLegendOfTroll lol they just don't sell them
ncolelousie2010 3 months ago
Uhm, everything is flown in or shipped in to a small population! That is why the prices are high!
kelsdon01 3 months ago
Well these are people who make $ 22/hr on a job...oil/whaling/ catching crabs...it pays well so they can afford it. Take those prices further south and you will be outta business in 2 hours.
kanyaugatiejagwo 4 months ago
What about beer????????????????????????????
d2techknow 4 months ago
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.
MsBecky9 4 months ago
At least the unhealthy stuff is just as expensive as the fruits and veggies...
GoodSirGundam 4 months ago 3
@GoodSirGundam That's because the shipping costs of healthy food is subsidized by the government, while unhealthy food is not subsidized.
lemonrind 3 months ago
18 dollars for some damn cheese whiz?!?!
tigersfanatic98 4 months ago 2
Wow, that's insane. I had no idea food was that expensive there.
EiKishiwada 4 months ago
either these people are fucking balling or theyre broke.
roughryder5 4 months ago
Where do the homeless people go to sleep at "night?" :-0
laroger0 4 months ago
I can see why the passengers show up with a ridiculous amount of baggage (groceries) leaving Yellowknife for northern destinations on the Dash 7 charters....
ryno200 4 months ago
its not 'nunavut territory' its just NUNAVUT & yeah, the prices are crazy.. we dont even have a mall! :(
craziestguy1 5 months ago
$9 Mayonnaise? HOW DARE THIS EVER HAPPEN IN CANADA. THE MAYO MUST FLOW.
AManNamedCM2 5 months ago 6
Everything is 5 times the price up there but people also make 5 times more than you do. So it evens out. I have a friend whose mother is a psychiatrist. She went up there to work. Before she knew it, she's already got half million bucks in her pocket, flew back south and bought a house.
kimonji 5 months ago
$50 for TP? I wonder if people just use their left hand like they do in so many parts of the world.
awwwyeaboyeeee 5 months ago
whats seal meat go for
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crazywaffleking 4 months ago
jesus christ!!!!!!
MinnieMIsaac16 5 months ago
You realise things are this expensive due to the ridiculous fuel costs to get it there, right? Notice how the heavier items (oil, juice, canned drinks) are proportionately more expensive than small/compressible items. Not rocket science.
h4xnoodle 6 months ago
That is just mental. No wonder no one can live there. No really, that's why we don't have cities there. it's impossible to have a normal life with prices like that. It's that simple.
EgoNamahaNemoRex 6 months ago
hahaha
destructivememory 6 months ago
Even in Malaysia, we pay $10 for the Bryer's ice cream. Wow! I should just pick off bananas and pineapples from road side and sell them in Nunavut.
SneakerRock 6 months ago
@lilydalebunny Cute
jityr2 6 months ago
holy sh*$ the diaper prices made me slide off my chair. glad i raised my babies in Ontario!
jenzeppelin 7 months ago
Why is ice cream so expensive in Iqaluit? Surely local ice cream can be made?
Bozewani 7 months ago
@Bozewani seriously
RaleighG300 7 months ago
@Bozewani I don't think there are many cows in Iqaluit. It is just as expensive to ship cream as it is to ship ice cream.
lemonrind 3 months ago
Sure, prices are high, but it beats the alternative: find a seal, hack it up and eat it raw.
RK831 7 months ago
Meh, it's about the same as Norway....
zumwane 7 months ago
Because they're isolated is the fact that the prices are so expensive. It's like importing Mexican food and products when we live in Saudi Arabia.
vlun121 7 months ago
Pineapple for 11:30 sounds pretty decent in Iqaluit. Remember we are two degrees south of the Arctic Circle
Bozewani 7 months ago
that pineapple had to travel about 8000 miles to get to that grocery store. $11.29 actually sounds pretty reasonable to me.
camaro76 7 months ago
How much for a bag of Ice?
Catface91 7 months ago 49
If only they had Costco portions and sizes to match the prices. Ugh, then imagine the Costco prices if they WOULD open a warehouse up North...
amazingdany 7 months ago
these prices make me angry. who wants to go club some seals?
Wolfboy183 8 months ago
@TheJspyder136 Everyone's salaries are adjusted in the Arctic of the U.S. and Canada, in order to afford such groceries. For instance, a store clerk in the lower 48 U.S. states would have $7/hr, but one at Barrow or Deadhorse would have $12-$14/hr.
TheSanguineOne 8 months ago
HOLY SHIT.
meklo89311 8 months ago
I laughted sooo much at the end when the dude is like " what the fuck " with the washing product xD
rioualucas 9 months ago
And I thought Quebec was expensive!
Mutlilated33 9 months ago
@ rankeism777 Nunavut is Inuktitut for our land. Just conseder it the traditonal land of the Canadian Inuit (Eskimo). So if you ask me yes it sould exesit. Nalligijara Nunavut! I love Nunavut !
kakumee 9 months ago
WOAH! THEY STILL HAVE FRUITOPIA!!!! WE DONT HAVE ANY HERE IN THE STATES IM JELLY!
TheLowEndTheory 9 months ago
Someday I'll have to compare these prices to the ones at the Metro grocery store down the street where I live, in Hamilton, which is in southern Ontario.
sarahedwards2 10 months ago
Like..Dude..Where's my strawberry?
fernfeyes 10 months ago
Those prices aren't that bad.They are about the same here.A lot of those prices are for jounk food and sweets that you don't need anyway.Seal,caribou,walrus,char,ducks,geese,muttuk,clams,mussells and fresh fruit and vegetables are all you need.
MrTerriak 1 year ago
Nunavut...highest crime rate in Canada by far..very odd
PhatFarm60 1 year ago
This must be outside Iqaluit because it does not that coast much! but still it coast alot those kind of price are usually in upper land !and outside Iqaluit
BeautyNoolea 1 year ago
I would just club a seal instead, and feed my family for a week or two.
Stufrogg 1 year ago
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 :-)
nicweber01 1 year ago 2
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.
canmoore 1 year ago
What did you say? At 0:21? "None of us is really expensive?" You mean NUNAVUT! New-Nah-Vut. Get it right white boy!
ethnurlbom 1 year ago
yeah well imagine living in Nunavut... and imagine being unemployed with six children. That's why we have so much poverty along with other reasons.
ethnurlbom 1 year ago
$80 for diapers?!?
Jasmine22777 1 year ago
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.
nicweber01 1 year ago
stange, that the ice is expensive in nunavut..
DeineLieblingsvideos 1 year ago
What I don't get is who on earth will eat Ice Cream in Nunavut ? Or is it just me seeing the funny thing ?
cfhasib 1 year ago
@cfhasib It's never too cold for ice cream!
lemonrind 3 months ago
dummies. The people who live in the arctic get a northern living allowance from the government. They get money on top of their high pay which balances everything out. To a northerner $17.00 for some orange juice is cheap! It's not just groceries that are priced like that either. Everyone in Nunavut has a HD tv and they probably paid twice as much as you did for yours. But to them it's cheap because they get tens of thousands of dollars from the government every year just for living there.
likethepear 1 year ago
@likethepear, Your right, I've met people who have been there, worked there or know people who do, and a job that you would get payed 16$ an hour for in lets say Montreal, you would get 20$ to 25$ an hour for in Nunavut and pay a little less than HALF the tax than another Canadian would if they lived in a province as opposed to a territory.
And like you said, the feds give you a lot of extra $ for living there so in the end everyone up there is swimming in $ (so long as they dont drink) lol
7080hutchison 1 year ago
So it's 2011, you should try uploading a new video to compare the prices from last 2 years to this year now right?
TheFramer38 1 year ago
Ha... you think that is expensive? Come and try to live in Poland... here we got 300$ a month and 450$ bills to pay, ha ha! Try this!
AlexRyteuBart 1 year ago
the reason why people live there, including myself is due to the vast amount of job opportunities, which offer large salaries along with many benefits to compensate for the isolation and high cost of living. Also minimal education is required in order to attain employment, often a high school diploma is all that is required to work for the government where you would receive roughly 80 grand a year just starting off. so if you wanna get rich for minimal work move here btwthe highcostgoesfor pot:(
newfaith111 1 year ago
Wow, 12 dollars for 1 pepper! Here they're usually about a dollar a pound!
sarahedwards2 1 year ago
7 dollars for a lunch mate? At my school cafeteria they're about a third of that!
sarahedwards2 1 year ago
If I lived in Nunavut, I'd learn the traditional way of living where I wouldn't need money to live.
lecrapauddejerri9 1 year ago
thank god its not like that in all of Canada, only the far north
wildflame333 1 year ago
Jesus Christ.
SengokuNinjaRanmaru 1 year ago
$80 for diapers?
I'm guessing nunavut kids get potty trained real quick.
guyvf 1 year ago 13
Why people live there anyway?
mrbusdriversir 1 year ago
OMG! I seriously wonder how people can afford their groceries there... I can understand the 13$ 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...
sarai5000 1 year ago
damn. 5 of those items together are what i pay for two weeks of groceries from my supermarket. without the club card
icametorock1 1 year ago
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
SouthwesternEagle 1 year ago
lostindiancamp: I lived there for five years and I did not live in a shack, get your facts straight. I LOVED IT
And as for this video, the guy should learn how to pronounce Nunavut correctly if he's posting this up for the world to see
lnmm75 1 year ago
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lnmm75 1 year ago
I'll pay more attention to people making videos about Nunavut when they learn how to say Nunavut. Sounds like hes saying None of A...
jwmkennedy 1 year ago
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.
iqalungmiutaq 1 year ago
$80 for diapers? I think I just found a way to keep newspapers in business!
Cff879 1 year ago 2
...that is insane! well, pineapple 12 bugs isn t that bad.... :_)
TheIcelandTV 1 year ago
These people live in shacks, how can they be expected to be able to afford those prices? This is really horrible. I feel so sorry for anyone who has to live there.
lostindiancamp 1 year ago
WOW!! Talk about misinformed... You sound like an ignoramus that knows NOTHING of Canada or the Arctic for that matter.
At least learn how to say Nunavut dude!! Gawd!!
NorthernNewf 1 year ago
Is there no heated green houses to grow your own food?
dig282 1 year ago
OMG 17 dollars for a pizzza!!!!!!
SaaKoreaInc 1 year ago
ITS NUU-NAAA-VUUUT.
NOT NON-A-VUT
geez
Laurennn2 1 year ago
It's one thing for Alaska to be like this, since it's split off from the rest of the US. But why is it like that here?
jlarch3313 1 year ago
@jlarch3313 , because Toronto is probably an 8 hour flight from the arctic. Kind of a massive country.
Love4SK 1 year ago
*screams*
MasterSnowstorm 1 year ago
This is one reason why people who take jobs in the north are given additional allowances and an allotment to order items on the annual sea lift. Some people have a sea lift room in there house to store those cases of beans and cereal etc. which come up by ship from Montreal The sea shipping (only in the summer of course) is infinitely much cheaper than having to fly everything in by air..like all those apples aetc. The signs should say: Apples 99 cents/ lb. Air freight $7 a pound. Total 7.99
amogee59O 1 year ago
did he just say nunnavutt?
rijulz 1 year ago
So much for local food.
stanleykubrick98 1 year ago
This makes Whole Foods look like the 99c store. Holy *&%@#$k!
SGVBaller5 1 year ago
Give it a few year we all be paying that much
jmcclelland85 1 year ago
There had better be a Tim Horton's coffee joint before I move up there! LOL!
InfiniteMushroom 1 year ago
How much is the Northern Living Allowance? If I lived there I'd probably starve to death on my feet at work, just like in a concentration camp. That is, unless I got a fat assed gubmint cheque to cover my costs of living.
Merle1987 1 year ago
Wanna cut the cost of groceries to remote towns like this? Relocate the store to the harbor so a cargo ship can pull right up and unload directly into the store. Air delivery is the most inefficient way of moving people and cargo. Rail is the best if no waterways are available. Cargo ships costs the least, even if they are slow. To fix that problem, plan the old-fashioned way and don't waste space on trendy junk. Build up inventories of stuff that can be stored and brought out as needed.
InfiniteMushroom 1 year ago
@InfiniteMushroom that would be a good idea but knowing it's winter here 8 months of the year how will ships come in?
And another thing we already have werehouses when every year when the ice melts the ships come in, hold the stocks for almost a year and then the supply has run our so at most a month or 2 before the ships come in the stocks start to run out so theres only 1 option and that is through aircraft.
TheFramer38 1 year ago
Why is there any shock over this? This is the cost of maintaining a modern outpost, complete with all the comforts that were unimaginable 50 years ago. Just about everything I saw here could be found in any local supermarket in the U.S.
What Ottawa and Nunavut SHOULD do is subsidize local food production, however limited it may be. It is dangerous to foster a culture of dependence on junk food that has to be flown in. What will they do if a national emergency shuts off deliveries for a time?
InfiniteMushroom 1 year ago 24
@InfiniteMushroom That exactly my thoughts. Outsourcing shipping import cost money.That is what is gonna happen EVERYWHERE soon cuz of gatt nafta and all these "trade treaties".
abcedy123456 1 year ago
@InfiniteMushroom Then we, the USA, would come in and aid in supplying tons of McDonalds. LOL XD
SouthwesternEagle 10 months ago
@SouthwesternEagle There is no part of the globe out of reach of Lord Ronald! Nunavut will learn to bow before The Clown.
InfiniteMushroom 10 months ago
@InfiniteMushroom I believe Yukon has a Mickey D's or two...
KeikoTeddy 9 months ago
@KeikoTeddy The Yukon has fallen under the imperial power of The Clown and the Golden Arches.
InfiniteMushroom 9 months ago
@InfiniteMushroom insulated green houses?
Wolfboy183 8 months ago
@Wolfboy183 Insulated greenhouses could be for some crops that need it. I don't know what the soil is like but, some food crops could be done via traditional outside farming. They ought to have some kind of big fish processing facility where locally caught fish could be dressed and packaged for wintertime consumption. I wonder if chickens could be kept up there in special barns? A fresh egg ration in the middle of winter is better than no eggs!
InfiniteMushroom 8 months ago
Obviously it's expensive, they have to fly everything up there... That's not cheap
canadiandrummer125 1 year ago
well its expensive but heck even the minuim wage here is the highest in canada and they pay you to live up here too sounds good enough for you to shut up?
TheFramer38 1 year ago
@TheFramer38 What do you mean pay you to live there?
fb767 1 year ago
@fb767 So our government pays people that work for some company and sometimes they can get paid for living here when they have a job.
TheFramer38 1 year ago
@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.
fb767 1 year ago
@fb767 Minimun wage here is $10 an hour which is highest in Canada, the internet is stupidly slow and at times you have to wait a minute to even load a website and yet no Rogers/bell here as far as I know, and yes there is some electronic shops here but not sure every community has em.
Tha's the only questions you ask so thats what you got from a person who lives/works in the North.
TheFramer38 1 year ago
@TheFramer38 Thanks for the answers. This is really interesting :).
fb767 1 year ago
@fb767 no Probs glad I could at least help out a little, would have done my version of expensive store here myself but thinking of it now all the editing I would have to do just to make a short video when I don't really have the time.
TheFramer38 1 year ago
@TheFramer38 10$/h the highest in Canada? in Toronto it is 10.75$ x)
GrabaPL 1 year ago
@GrabaPL Update, this has been in effect for a while but the new lowest rate here is like $11 an hour now, personally don't make that much of a low income but it was on the news so just though i'd share it.
TheFramer38 10 months ago
@fb767 You can buy whatever you want via the internet and have it airfreighted up. Best Buy, Future shop and the like along with Sears ship north. Lots of people have lots of stuff. A fair amount of the housing is subsidized so people do have a few dollars to get satellite TV (no good if you are too far north), internet and everything else ot see what they are missing from down south.
amogee59O 1 year ago
Those prices are ridiculous.... 13.29 for 2litres of Fruitopia...jesus.
BlowesProductions 1 year ago
Nunavut was a bad idea and shouldn't even exist
Rakerism777 1 year ago
manoflegend12: you'll get a northern allowance and so on. restaurants are definitely more expensive, but i'm sure you'll get used to the prices :)
CaribouVideos 1 year ago
@CaribouVideos
Hi CaribouV,
Thanks for your reply. Apart from the northern allowance, i heard something about the environmental allowance, fuel/heat allowance, and living cost differential. However I heard if you get northern allowance, you don't get the other ones, and vice versa. is that true? I am working at the hospital for government of nunavut.
If I am packing food up there, what should I pack up, I heard that people bring truckloads there! Mostly nonperishables.
manoflegend12 1 year ago
hey I am going to work in iqaluit for a year, how do you save money on food? Would it be cheaper to eat at a restaurant? How much is a meal?
manoflegend12 1 year ago
Welcome to the NORTH no wonder no one can afford food at the store so we hunt but poor welfare ppl...
igvit 2 years ago
My goodness! I would def. not have the money to live over there!! $9 for a jar of Mayo?!! That's crazy! It's like $3 here!! lol. :O
Kristiniskool 2 years ago
I just dropped $137 for groceries here in red deer alberta for my trip to nunavut. By the looks of this a was smart in my planning.
TimVanHorn 2 years ago
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.
nicweber01 2 years ago
Insane is right. xP Things would probably be cheaper if the north wasn't so sparsely populated; it just isn't cost effective to send small shipments over.
Illianthe 2 years ago
Good riddance. This is what happens when people actually have to pay for the cost of shipping items to the middle of nowhere. I don't see an issue paying a shitload of money for a PINEAPPLE in the HIGH ARCTIC.
gensucht 2 years ago 12
I don't see the problem cause pinneapples suck, so i don't even buy them (hehe) :)>
WeirdKlemch 1 year ago
good question! we somehow missed those :(
progresschrome 2 years ago
I'm afraid to ask, but how much are things like cheese and meat?
themissingprong 2 years ago