These posts include a standard shopping list we’ll use for every place that introduces typical local produce and goods while also serving as a cost of living index.
Price Check Australia gives you an idea of what groceries cost in Australia if you’re travelling down under and self-catering – whether you’re settling into an apartment rental, holiday house or home-swap, hiring an RV, or camping and caravanning your way around Australia. A shopping list of essential groceries and their prices, Price Check launched … Read more
Having settled into Siem Reap where we’ve established a home, we’ve become familiar with what things cost in Cambodia and thought it was time to share a Siem Reap shopping list for our Price Check series, just in case you’re planning to settle in for a while when you venture here. In short: shopping here is inexpensive … Read more
After posting our guide to experiencing Sydney on a Budget and our apartment reviews, it seemed like a good time to do our Price Check: a Sydney Shopping List for you. Despite spending a great deal of time in Australia over the last 12 months, we still had trouble getting used to how expensive the … Read more
Bangkok is a fun place to shop. For most visitors that means buying cheap hippy clothes and skimpy stuff for the beach holiday they’re about to have on a Thai island or a resort on the coast. And then buying even more revealing gear once they’re back in Bangkok before they fly home to show … Read more
In our last post on What Things Cost Around the World, we compared the dockets of our Price Check shopping lists from some 24 destinations we stayed at around the world on our yearlong grand tour. Our goal was to give self-catering travellers who like settling into places for a while an idea of what … Read more