Hamilton - Post Report Question and Answers
How would you describe the availability and cost of groceries and household supplies relative to your home country?
Most expensive place I have ever been to! Bermuda's prices make even NYC seem reasonable sometimes. COM personnel receive a nice COLA to offset the cost, and we buy a lot of household goods and non-perishables off Amazon Prime to save money. Groceries are ridiculously expensive: US$8 cereal, chicken breasts US$10/lb, milk is US$6 for half gallon. Note that COM personnel are eligible for duty-free alcohol purchases so make sure to ask about this before buying in the store. - Jun 2019
Virtually everything is imported from the US. There is really nothing you can't get here, but it is mind-bogglingly expensive. Bermuda is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive places in the world to live (it rarely makes the list of most expensive cities to live because Hamilton isn't really much of a city). $7 for half a gallon of milk, $6 for a loaf of bread, $5 for a pack of hamburger buns. You get the idea. It's crazy expensive. - Dec 2018
Everything is available -- but it's definitely the most expensive place I've ever lived. I'd say it's about 150% as expensive as a DC-area Giant. - Oct 2009
