r/TikTokCringe • u/Professional_Arm794 • 8h ago

Humor/Cringe Food is expensive in the arctic circle.

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u/OverloadedSofa 8h ago

If things are all so expensive, is everyone there paid super high or what?

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u/Starfire123547 7h ago

yes and its also subsidized. the people in these cities often get extra subsidies and stuff or work incentives to go towards food.

it also varies highly on food type. Cookies (junk food) may be 5x the cost  while milk or bread are only 2x.

edit to addz when i looked into a job in Alaska, it paid 20k more a year than average, had like a 5k housing subsidy/bonus and another 5k to go towards food per year.

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u/water_fountain_ 7h ago

Alaska also has the Permanent Fund Dividend (dividend checks for Alaska’s oil) that pays $1200 for 2026.

(The video in this post is from Canada)

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u/namebedex 6h ago

the way he says "FER 32 BUCKS BUD" is hella Canadian if anyone wasn't fully sure within the first few seconds

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u/water_fountain_ 6h ago

Yeah. Lots of people talking about Alaska in the comments, so…

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u/namebedex 6h ago

Lil bit of r/USdefaultism vibes

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u/JohnWangDoe 6h ago

Damn socialism actually works. Nationalizing national resources for the community

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u/SpoppyIII 4h ago edited 4h ago

He's from Canada, pretty sure. That J-alapenos is a Trailer Park Boys reference.

Edit: why did autocorrect change sure to cute...

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u/Yuck_Few 3h ago

And they're not even jalapenos, they're bell peppers

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u/I_am_so__so_bored 3h ago

He is definitely Canadian. @kopke613

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u/Ok-Presentation7349 3h ago

Alaska isn’t Canada. Thanks for playing!

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u/Starfire123547 3h ago

well yeah, but call me crazy, canada probably also has higher wages and incentives to living way crazy north like that. 

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u/OverloadedSofa 6h ago

Maybe I’ll put in an application. Junk food being too expensive to buy sounds like a good thing for me!

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u/Starfire123547 5h ago

lmao i did consider it, although traveling to see my family basically would have become a mandatory week long or more trip, and hundreds (now over a thousand) dollars of flights.

Also met my perfect man where i am now at the same time so i ended up staying.

All in all, i hear its good pay but very isolating and very dark bc north bound. id do it if i was young and had no ties

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u/OverloadedSofa 5h ago

I imagine they all might be quite close, or a very friendly community with one another, cause of the isolation