Daily living costs

As we hear of rising costs at home, especially with the poor exchange rate for the Canadian dollar, we see the price of food rising here also.  A few examples:

One large mango $350 pesos ($2.70 CAD)
One small head of romaine lettuce $260 pesos ($2.00 CAD)
1 kg bacon $110 pesos ($8.43 CAD)
1 litre orange juice $170 pesos ($1.30 CAD) --  the cost is the same whether we make our own freshly squeezed orange juice or buy it in a tetrapak at the grocery store
1 litre milk $150 pesos ($1.14 CAD)

These prices are up from previous years.

Two items that have remained the same:

smoked pork chops $70 pesos per kg ($5.36 CAD)$
large shrimp $180 pesos per kg ($13.79 CAD).

Re other expenditures:

Regular gas here is $13.16 pesos per litre ($1.01 CAD) compared to 93.9 cents per litre at our home in Ontario. We do not use our car very often here as we can walk most places.

The local bus to Puerto Vallarta costs $50 pesos ($3.83 CAD) for the 1 1/2 hour ride.  (About 55 km drive on mountain road of single lane traffic each way)