[roylene]

Don't know about Idaho but in Sunnyvale, CA:
gas - 1.79 to 1.99(87octane)
bread - fluffy white bread 1.79, real bread 2.99
milk - 3.69 gallon and up
Good luck on your move. Many of our family friends are fleeing California for Idaho and Colorado - and loving it!

[maxwell]

Virginia:

Gas ~ 1.45/gal (87)
Bread and milk: Uhhhh... I don't really buy bread and milk. Now BEER on the other hand: you can get a 6er of Miller Light for under five bucks. Hamburgers at the local deli/bars run for around six bucks.

[SouthernFreebird]

Dang! don't ya'll have cows in Alaska? milk here in NC is 239 a gallon... gas 145...bread, that expensive stuff is 2 bucks but we buy the cheap for 79 cents a loaf.

Sure you don't wanna move down here?

[Clinging Bitterly]

Here I last paid $1.65 per gallon (but it is going up fast right now), $1.89 for a gallon of store brand 2% milk(fairly stable), and $.53 for a store brand loaf (also fairly stable). Big bags of generic cold cereals run a couple bucks, bananas are .38 /lb, a box of stick margarine will run you about half a buck, frozen veggies will run you .59 /lb and up, local fresh veggies in season cheaper, Calif. hothouse or Mexican/South American fresh veggies available all winter for somewhat more, and meat seems a bit high around here larely. The info on the groceries might be helpful, it is from Winco (formerly Waremart), a regional chain that I hear is big in Idaho. The name brands are a lot more though, and usually when I see a cart loaded with name brands, it'll be paid for with food stamps.

If you are moving from Alaska to just about anywhere else that's not a huge population center, you will save a whole bunch on groceries.

[lowbridge]

New York:

Gas: 1.69 a gallon
Milk: 2.39 a gallon
Bread: 2.29 for a loaf of Wonder Bread (for the large giant or jumbo size loafs).

[Graewoulf]

Keep in mind that the average local, State and Federal taxes is forty cents on the gallon on Gasoline and Diesel.

If Gasoline and Diesel were tax-free all of our goods delivered by trucks and vans would be cheaper.

It is no wonder that clinton made it a Federal offense to post the taxes paid on the fuel pump.