Reason #385 Why I Can’t Live In Manhattan
I was in SoHo yesterday to get my hair cut, and I was a little early so I wandered a block over to Whole Foods to look around. And yikes.
I mean, I hate chopping onions with every fiber of my being, but I’m not going pay $4 a pound for pre-chopped onions. And $5? For dried pasta? Are they serious? $8 a pound for ground beef? I haven’t had so much sticker shock in a grocery store since I initially moved to the east coast.
All in all, even though commuting sucks, it made me glad that I choose to live in the suburbs. Jersey City is less exciting than New York to be sure, but my rent is much lower and my grocery bill at Shop Rite is a lot smaller than it would be if I had to shop at Whole Foods instead.
I’ll be making bolognese sauce today. If I’d gotten the ingredients at Whole Foods, I would have spent enough that I might as well have just gone out and ordered spaghetti bolognese at a restaurant.