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Grocery Prices

SimonRL said:
There is absolutely no way prices have dropped 44%, if at all. Some eggs have come down minimally, which had absolutely nothing to do with the current administration. Easing of avian flu restrictions and the fact that we have been importing more eggs to make up for the lack of domestically produced eggs has helped ease the price of eggs, but they are still
historically high.
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Eggs pretty much stayed the same for us out here in the netherworld. You can’t throw a dead raccoon without hitting someone selling brown eggs. Like $3/dozen.
 
Model 457 said:
Yeah, my end goal for retirement is a small family farm somewhere like Idaho. For reasons I don't want to say here, Idaho won't work for the better half. She refuses to go there. Oregon was the best compromise at the time but didn't pan out quite as planned.
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Montana is also great. If my wife didn’t have an unreasonable objection to 20 below for 4 months of the year I would be living in western South Dakota right now.
 
Model 457 said:
Yeah, my end goal for retirement is a small family farm somewhere like Idaho. For reasons I don't want to say here, Idaho won't work for the better half. She refuses to go there. Oregon was the best compromise at the time but didn't pan out quite as planned.
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Move to either Weiser, or Payette, Idaho (right across the bridge from Ontario, OR) and throw a rock across the Snake River to Oregon. If the better half wants to go to Oregon to shop to beat the ID sales tax its a 1/4 mile drive, and in ID you'll be in a free state.

Short drive to Boise for the big city stuff.
 
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I never did any grocery shopping... i can't cook and until i was moved here i only ate from diners, certain delis or chain restaurants.

People i live with do weekly grocery shopping. Most things are usually on sale or have a coupon for the week. And average(i think) $200ish because if some meats like chicken or chopped meat have a good sale price they get more and the extra meat gets put in a big freezer in their carhole. They have 4.5 mouths to feed.
 
No appreciable lowering of prices around here , gas or grub. Eggs and chicken are still considerably higher in places and dropping in other, but that was availability more than everything. At least you don't have to go to a local egg dealer down in the bad areas of Detroit to buy eggs any more.
 
Sld1959 said:
No appreciable lowering of prices around here , gas or grub. Eggs and chicken are still considerably higher in places and dropping in other, but that was availability more than everything. At least you don't have to go to a local egg dealer down in the bad areas of Detroit to buy eggs any more.
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The racoons swipe eggs from me regularly. I figure they can have a few because my Rhode Island Reds lay more than we eat. Plus I can't keep the 4 legged bandits outa the coop!
 
The things I notice most are eggs, which have gone down in price from $6ish to $3 to $4 a dozen depending on the size. Butter and milk have gone down. Bacon is the same. Chicken is still a little stupid, but beef and pork haven’t changed much in a long time. Gas has gone up and down like a yo-yo. Top end was $3.99, now the lowest I’ve seen lately is $2.79. I tell you though, I just got my natural gas bill and it went from $61 a month to $151. I wish they would just quit jerking me around and leave it alone already. Budgeting is hard enough nowadays without them changing their minds every other month. 🙄
 
yotehtr said:
We live in the middle of nowhere, with no neighbors.
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That’s nice. I’m situated similarly. With lower taxes, better gun laws and a solidly red state government, police, etc.

I get it brother. There’s many reasons people don’t just up and move. I’m not trying to disparage you. It’s just that I live 20 minutes or so from the border and I can’t remember the last time I willingly went through Illinois. Even when I went to Indiana. I HATE going to Illinois.
 
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