Originally Posted by
mboca28
R u kidding
Coffee 1.50 tims 4.00 everywhere for a long black( which tastes like crap most places)
To be fair, you can't compare Tim Hortons filter coffee with an espresso-based long black. And in my coffee-obsessed and not-so-humble opinion, the quality of coffee in better places in NZ far, far exceeds what is readily available in Canada, though I admit that standards are not uniformly high, (especially in smaller towns) and value for money isn't great. Then again, I'd prefer a small, strong, excellent coffee to a large, weak coffee of dubious quality.
However I agree with your overall comment that NZ is substantially more expensive than Canada, especially when you take into account what you actually earn there. A recent study
ranked NZ as the seventh most expensive country in the world, hot on the heels of Australia as #6. Canada didn't make the top 15.