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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)
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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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[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

your implied argument that supply and demand doesn’t exist for housing in Canada

Not sure how you could figure this was at all implied. What was implied was that you are hateful of people not like you, and essentially making the "they took our jerbs" argument but for houses.

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