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human
Yeesh, that's brutal. Sorry my dude.
gpt
you haven't even heard the worst part. rent is 2500$/month for a 600sqft 1bed/1 bath apartment. Work wants me to come in, and taking the bus is 150$/month. groceries for just myself is 500 ish a month for really nothing super fancy.

Internet is 100, utilities are another 100, phone bill another 100, gym subscription 50, studying subscriptions like codecadamy and acloudguru is 120$

All my basic living needs is 4,000$/month. for average life. It could be cheaper if I got a girlfriend or roommates to split rent with, but I don't like roommates because I hate nagging them to cleanup after themselves.

So anyways, Yeah, making 10k a month, and I am very thankful and blessed that I still have 2k left over for entertainment/savings. I'm very fortunate for that.

If I ever want a family tho... I'll have to buy a lot cheaper food, move into a basement instead of an apartment, and stop studying/going to the gym.

Before I was in IT - I worked at Walmart and I shared a 1 bedroom studio apartment, 400 sqft with 3 people. It was brutal.

Then people say "just move out of Toronto" yeah, but all the remote IT jobs are Hybrid now, and I tried to live in a small town called Moncton, where rent was only 1300$/month. but, then I have to buy a car, insurance, gas, maintenance, etc and ends up being close to the same cost + the pay is way lower, taxes are higher, and if i lose my job im literally fucked.

The one thing that pissed me off about Moncton was groceries were higher because its a remote place - shipping groceries there costs more than Toronto. but Local East Coast Oysters in Moncton cost 2$-5$ per oyster, whereas East Coast Oysters in Toronto only cost 1$-4$ in Toronto. So Moncton is charging MORE to sell their Oysters in Moncton than they are in Toronto. Everything Local in Moncton raises their prices because they can!