30/05/2026
I know we hear it all the time… It’s less expensive living abroad than in the US! But how about an example? 🧐
I have a favorite frutta 🍉 e verdura 🌽 stand that I go to every week. The guy who owns it helps me practice my Italian as I choose my stuff, and gently corrects me if I use the wrong article or the incorrect ending of the word. In Italian, the nouns have to be plural or singular and then feminine or masculine, and the article needs to match that! It’s always tricky for me to say the sentence correctly the first time but he is a sweetheart and helps me every time.
But I digress. Here is a picture of my haul for the day. I bought a large head of Romaine lettuce 🥬 , some of the best tomatoes I’ve ever tasted, beautiful juicy strawberries, Italian cherries 🍒 , a shiny red pepper, 6 or 7 of those amazing donut 🍩 peaches that are phenomenally fab, a couple ears of crunchy sweet corn 🌽, two tart Sicilian lemons 🍋 🍋 , a cucumber that actually tastes like something, a pound of green beans, and two red onions.
Total cost? €13/$15 USD for 5.7 kg/12.5 pounds of fresh and delicious produce.
I did a quick search of the prices for produce in Denver this week using the online sales flyers and came up with a estimated price of 25 USD for approximately the same fruits and vegetables as I purchased here.
That’s more than 35% higher than what it cost me here!
And although I was not purchasing organic here, I do know that anything that was used to help grow these fruits and vegetables here is less dangerous and more restricted than what is allowed in the states.
Thinking of living abroad? Do the math - you’ll be surprised! 💰
