[yamakadi]

It’s easy to say that if you aren’t living a normal life here. Grocery receipts are growing faster than they ever have. It’s all small and incremental but enough to nearly double what we spent half a decade ago.

Keep in mind this is a country where new graduate salaries have been unchanging for the past 30 years. Even small rates of inflation is relatively devastating to certain groups.

[Aeolun]

Why would you suggest that I’m not living a normal life? It’s not like I’m here on an expat package (unfortunately).

The food price increases are noticeable, but even at my 21万 salary when I just got here they wouldn’t have been the end of the world. They’ve increased a lot, but they were also just insanely low before, so even with the increase it still feels reasonable.

I do think it’s heavily dependent on where you go. Some supermarkets are easily 50% more expensive by themselves.