Costco Membership: $400 (pesos)/year
There are some places around the globe, that no matter where you're actually geographically located, when you step through the door - whoosh! - you're magically transported back to the good ole' US of A, (for better or worse, depending on where you currently register on the Expat Sliding Scale of Hate/Love For the Motherland). Costco is one of those places. I spent a pleasant, if not slightly confusing few hours there during winter break, making repeat visits to the goat cheese sample lady, running giddily through the aisles hoisting gallons jars of sun-dried tomatoes above my head in victory, and accidentally slipping into English with the besmocked employees. There's only one buzzkill, and it's that all of the products from back home that are so gloriously familiar are kind of expensive. Like the idea of paying the membership price in the States is that then you have access to lots of well-priced stuff, right? Well, paying for the membership here is just really paying admission to the one joint in town that has products that make me go all nostalgic for cuisine, as well as the salaries, of home.
It might be worth it for monthly lunches of free samples, though.
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