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Re:His Body Was Behind the Wheel for a Week Before It Was Di... by mmirate on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:10PM (#18289406)
> As it stands, if I wanted to rent my own apartment, 50% of my monthly income would be gone right there. That's not including utilities, internet, or food, and that's not a "nice" place - it's just what you can find. With those other expenses factored in, I'd be looking at roughly another 15% gone on top of that.

Then you're looking in the wrong town or at the wrong job-offers. Conventional wisdom has it that you should spend at most 25% of monthly net income on housing.

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Re:His Body Was Behind the Wheel for a Week Before It Was Di... by jesseb on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:11AM (#18290089)
I'm doing fine, I have slowly growing savings and spend a small portion of my income on housing. As I mentioned, this is mostly because I opted to live with other people and I do not own a vehicle. I am definitely underpaid but willingly take that in exchange for the freedom my job grants me.

Unfortunately for the majority of people in this city (or even province in general, BC is expensive), housing is often >50% of income. A one bedroom apartment where I live goes for about $800-1200 on average right now (and are in extremely short supply), and minimum wage is $10.50. There are not a lot of high paying jobs here either; a large number of people are forced to work multiple jobs.

Our entire province is struggling with a housing crisis right now. Things are complicated unfortunately and conventional wisdom doesn't always match up with reality.

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Re:His Body Was Behind the Wheel for a Week Before It Was Di... by mmirate on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:03AM (#18291641)
> Our entire province is struggling with a housing crisis right now. Things are complicated unfortunately and conventional wisdom doesn't always match up with reality.

When there is such a mismatch between housing costs and salary offers, look somewhere else. "It's not worthwhile to work here." is the information conveyed by those housing prices; those other people who you say are pulling crazy stunts to make the ends meet, are ignorant of that information at their own peril.

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