And, to elaborate, it's those pre-processed foods like Doritos whose prices don't scale with "cost of living". They're expensive imports, luxuries. There's an entire genre of YouTube video in which expats go to grocery stores, and it's instructive. If you want to live cheap, you need to eat like a local, not like a Westerner. (The good news is, that "foreign" diet probably has more whole foods and is probably healthier, so long as you can avoid pathogens.)
Of course it does. Most of these processed foods are produced locally by a license. Do you think Coca-Cola ships the bottles from US all over the world?
