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[Jester]

I'm a tight wad. I do go to three different grocery stores during the month to get the best price, use coupons, and buy when things are on sale. Milk has been trending up. It hit $1.98 recently, off the low from winter of last year. There is a local bakery in Hopkins that sells great fresh baked bread. Three loaves for $1.75

You do understand why it's apples and oranges to compare prices you can find coupon clipping, bargain hunting, and generally being a "tight wad" in a relatively cheap area, with listed retail averages for Denmark, right? How that alone would give you a distorted picture of the price differences?

It's unfair. NYC is over 18 million people. The Copenhagen metropolitan area is at most, 2 million.

Not really. We're talking about how expensive it is to live in the US vs. in Denmark. You can't just suddenly forget that about one in fourteen people in the US lives in New York, as though somehow that's grossly atypical. If there is no equivalent in Denmark, that's fine, because no Danes have to pay the equivalent prices, making it cheaper to live there - which is the whole point! The price level is not shockingly different from LA, or Miami, or San Francisco, or a half-dozen other gigantic cities in the US - and combined, they make up a huge slice of the population..

I'm happy comparing national averages, to get a fair all-around picture. My first link deals in those, IIRC. But that means you have to stop cherry picking your prices - which also means that the price level in Denmark is slightly, but not massively, higher than in the US, and that it comes nowhere near double, let alone triple, except for a few heavily taxed commodities like gas.

-Jester