Yes the war is the excuse for our high fuel prices as well, which is killer for me travelling rurally. I'm sure our pricing is still better than most places in Europe though.

Exacerbated even more by the Ukraine invasion and for a while the blown up gas pipeline in the Baltic.

Yeah Europe saw pretty much the same development. Insane price hikes that increase CoL severely.

I'm sure mostly caused by opportunistic corporate greed.

As a whole though, I'm sure other countries are affected the same, but I can't believe the dramatic price increase in most things since covid. Especially our groceries.

I mean, sure, it'd be an average. And it would be per-capita numbers, so single households would pull up and lager families would pull down. Still, rent is probably the most important factor when considering a city.

But yeah, no one is spending more on ramen than they are on rent lol.