Re: [Debconf-team] [Debian-portland-soc] [DC14] Portland team: historical cost comparison

[Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>]

On 03/19/2013 09:13 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> 
> Right. and for this, I would look at similar cities - e.g. I expect
> the Portland food offer (and university cafeteria quality) to be much
> closer to New York or Edinburgh more than to most of our other past
> venues.

Portland is generally cheaper for the same quality food than New York:

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=United+States&city1=New+York%2C+NY&country2=United+States&city2=Portland%2C+OR

So, overall, we can anticipate the food bid for Portland will be about
1/3 lower than New York.

Allison