| Housing | Cost in Halifax |
| Monthly rent: 1 bedroom, living room, kitchen and bath (heat and power included - average) | $ 700 |
To purchase:
single-family detached - average | 230,000 |
| Accommodations (one night, two persons) | |
| Bed & Breakfast | 100 |
| Motel | 60 |
| Executive Suite | 240 |
| Full service hotel | 170 |
| Public Transportation (bus, ferry) | |
| Single fare | 2.00-2.50 |
| Monthly pass (average) | 60-75 |
| Taxi (downtown to Halifax Stanfield International Airport) | 53 |
| News | |
| Local daily newspaper | 1.00 |
| National daily newspaper (The Globe and Mail) | 1.25 |
| International daily newspaper (Wall Street Journal) | 5.10 |
| Food | |
| Bread (675g loaf) | 2.34 |
| Soda pop (2 litre) | 1.44 |
| Milk (2 litre) | 3.74 |
| Sugar (1 kg) | 2.39 |
| Eggs (12) | 2.49 |
| Butter (250 g) | 2.97 |
| Cars | |
| To rent: weekend, compact, all inclusive | 69 |
| To purchase: Toyota Yaris 2008, manual transmission | 16,040 |
| Parking violation | 25-100 |
| Miscellaneous Items | |
| Telephone (basic service/month) | 23.60 |
| Cable television (basic service/month) | 20.92 |
| Postage stamp (within Canada) | 0.52 |
| Postage stamp (to USA) | 0.96 |
| Postage stamp (International) | 1.60 |
| Movie theatre ticket | 8.99 |
| Compact disc | 18 to 23 |
| Dance club entrance | 6 |
| Live theatre ticket | 28.50 |
| Major Junior hockey ticket | 14.50 |
| McDonalds Kids meal | 4.15 |
Prices as of July 2008. All prices in Canadian Dollars.
Metric conversions:
1 kg = 2.2 pounds
100 grams = 3.5 ounces
1 litre = 1.05 quarts