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As a Dutch citizen the most important thing is walking around looking at the prices and see how cheap everything is.

Well there are a few insane places like Switzerland or Aruba.

I really doubt that, I recommend checking Bulgarian supermarkets, one of the poorest EU countries, yet their dairy products cost like double or triple the prices in Czechia, 3.5% milk you can buy here in promo for 0.4EUR, same in BG would cost double or triple in promotion, same with cheese/yogurt, heck even vegetables/fruit are pretty much same as Czechia with much lower purchasing power, Croatia and Slovakia expensive as well, it seems smaller the country, lower the competition, higher the prices, regardless of the salaries

The Netherlands has one of the cheapest grocery prices in Europe when you offset to income.

You are better off where you are.

https://finorum.com/grocery-prices-europe-2026-eu-basket/

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