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Vet technician, 33, is scraping by in a small city Ontario house her parents paid for: ‘It’s a lot of guilt’ (www.theglobeandmail.com)
submitted 1 year ago by sbv@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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“It feels like I’ve been working harder and harder and sliding backwards down the scale,” she says.

Making $50k in a small town and still "scraping by" is scary. Maybe I'm just old, but I'd hoped that kind of income would be enough for some kind of comfort.

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[-] frostbiker@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Beanfield may not be available everywhere, but Teksavvy has similar plans.

Teksavvy is available nearly everywhere and I know they have similar plans because I was a customer.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely not the case. They serve suburbs and cities. I live semi rurally and they are not a possible option.

[-] frostbiker@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

She lives in a college town. The vast majority of people in Canada live in urban centers. So, for most single people in Canada, spending less than $200/mo in Internet+phone is trivially simple.

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