Well welcome to Canada, goldielocks. It sounds like with the move this is a good time for you to purchase Canadian investments with your US investments. where are you guys moving to?
Our biggest single expense is well, food. That's probably why I notice the price increases so much.
I suppose the investing answer is to continue to maintain the asset allocation ratios and not worry about it beyond that. :-) Stay the course! It's really hard to remember the CAD being all the way down to 0.64 USD in 2002.
We have been back in canada since 2008. And waiting for the dollar to improve ever since 2011 when our IRA were suddenly placed to restricted trading due to our bank making a new decision on non resident accounts.
I worked in essentially data analysis for a major grocery retailer through the low low Canadian dollar. Yes prices are affected by the exchange rate, but for U.S. imports first, then meat and fish which is sold in U.S. Dollars, like oil, internationally. Canada grows quite a bit of food, really.
Grain, poultry, beer, eggs, milk are not affected much. Produce can jump, but the larger impact on groceries is actually world feul prices, and bad crops/ drought, or the use of crops to make energy instead of food.
Maybe some of the price jump you see is related to drought as much as anything?