I can't say for sure why it is twice the price over there, but when I was in England last, a couple of years ago, just about everything in Cambridge (where I was staying with my daughter) was just about twice the price of the exact same item here in Canada. I priced out clothes, hardware, wood, tools, gasoline, groceries electronics etc. Houses were another thing, comparable single family houses were 4 to 5 times the price. Except new cars they were the same price! Who can figure that one out. I talked to a couple of teachers and discovered they made even less than a comparable canadian teacher? I coudn't figure out how so many people could afford to eat out as much as they did, and buy all the stuff they had, on their salaries.
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