Tamilkuravan,
Excellent Post.
In Groceries I have included Wal Mart and Sams Club. So it is all taken together. For me every trip to Wal mart is atleast $75, which includes some kitchen items, some DVDs,Toys, etc.
Also the price which you are saying for groceries I pay 2.5 times that in Kansas City. Like we pay $ 2.50 for Cauliflower, $3.29/lb For Mutton,$3.99/lb Fish etc
Altough we get rice cheap $9.99 for 20lb bag,basmati rice in Sams Club

Looks like Altogether it is close to $3000. WOW !!!

Welcome To Canada!

Desi Incomes with Videsi Expenses !

We in Canada go to a store called One Dollar Store(also can be found as Dollarama, Dollar Express, Everything for a Dollar). For us Walmart is on the top end of the shopping chain. We always download movies from the net and cut DVD's at home as we cannot shell out the $15 for the DVD.

Recently some of my friends had visited us from US of A and the first comment was everything was costly and the only thing which was available cheap was Human Resource !. We do have highly qualified and extremely talented work force at dearth cheap prices for work.

Nowhere in the world you would find people who count every cent before spending. You get annual increments as 25 to 50 cents.

Welcome to Canada !

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Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....

"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our
vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my
children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India
who would make you starve, if you don't.'"

Ritu,
A correction.
Rice $12 for a 20 lb bag (and not 10 lb bag)
Please donot eat Basmathi rice. it is not good for health. We eat Sona Massoori (Karnataka rice) and it looks like basmathi.
For once, just try the local chinese store. You can save a lot. The smell is bad but the prices are great.
Before, every month my bill was coming to $3000/ month on my master card (with the baby and my wife's expenses). Recently, i sent my wife and kid to india, did not use master card , no eating outside, no gifts to any one etc.. and now i spend only $100-$150 for groceries. This is a huge saving.
For kitchen items or toys visit our classified to get them at low price or get them at garage sales. you can get good stuff for 25 cents a piece.
Also in Toronto, they throw away many useful things. if we look around and have good network we can get many good things for free. our Micro wave, sofa, some furniture came this way.
Some people may be offended by this . but my take is that we work as labourers in this country in factories, so what is the harm in taking stuff that was thrown out.

TK
Sidenote : The veg. and meat prices that you have mentioned will be the same here in Toronto too but it is cheaper in Chinese stores. While in Toronto, please donot visit Loblaws and Dominion/ Sobeys. They swindle you with prices. Always visit No Frills / Food Basics or Price chopper.
cauliflower in Canada comes from california. In Loblaws it is $2.49 +. In Chinese stores it is $1.29 (but it will sometimes be not very very fresh).
Cabbage in all cheap stores is $1.29 per unit.
Also milk (4L) is around $3.99 to $4.19.
Also note that salaries are pretty low in Toronto and Taxes are very very high. Though medical is free, medical care is mostly hopeless. For prescription drugs you need to pay your own money. Also there is a health tax in Toronto , where if you are employed and on payroll they deduct money from your salary for this apart from taxes.

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I am a Gents and not a Ladies.

Please don't hijack this thread. This is supposed to be about the IT market - not grocery market.

Please start a new thread if you want to, and leve this so that IT job seekers may use this if searching for information.

Thanks.

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Please don't hijack this thread. This is supposed to be about the IT market - not grocery market.

Please start a new thread if you want to, and leve this so that IT job seekers may use this if searching for information.

Thanks.

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I agree. Lets stop the expenses discussion here. My bad.

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Not exactly...just because they are all OO languages does not mean a c++ guy can start developing J2EE frameworks the next day. Understanding the intricacies of a language takes time.

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