Summary of cost of living in Toronto, Canada:
Restaurants | |
Range |
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Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant | 82.51 R$ | |
Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course | 410.80 R$ | |
McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo Meal) | 52.28 R$ | |
Domestic Beer (1 pint draught) | 29.88 R$ | |
Imported Beer (12 oz small bottle) | 33.61 R$ | |
Cappuccino (regular) | 18.91 R$ | |
Coke/Pepsi (12 oz small bottle) | 10.45 R$ | |
Water (12 oz small bottle) | 8.16 R$ | |
Markets | |
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Milk (regular), (1 gallon) | 53.76 R$ | |
Loaf of Fresh White Bread (1 lb) | 12.14 R$ | |
Rice (white), (1 lb) | 7.71 R$ | |
Eggs (regular) (12) | 17.01 R$ | |
Local Cheese (1 lb) | 27.36 R$ | |
Chicken Fillets (1 lb) | 28.96 R$ | |
Beef Round (1 lb) (or Equivalent Back Leg Red Meat) | 34.14 R$ | |
Apples (1 lb) | 9.45 R$ | |
Banana (1 lb) | 2.80 R$ | |
Oranges (1 lb) | 9.61 R$ | |
Tomato (1 lb) | 8.88 R$ | |
Potato (1 lb) | 6.52 R$ | |
Onion (1 lb) | 6.71 R$ | |
Lettuce (1 head) | 12.83 R$ | |
Water (1.5 liter bottle) | 8.68 R$ | |
Bottle of Wine (Mid-Range) | 67.22 R$ | |
Domestic Beer (0.5 liter bottle) | 12.17 R$ | |
Imported Beer (12 oz small bottle) | 13.54 R$ | |
Cigarettes 20 Pack (Marlboro) | 67.22 R$ | |
Transportation | |
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One-way Ticket (Local Transport) | 12.51 R$ | |
Monthly Pass (Regular Price) | 582.58 R$ | |
Taxi Start (Normal Tariff) | 17.27 R$ | |
Taxi 1 mile (Normal Tariff) | 10.52 R$ | |
Taxi 1hour Waiting (Normal Tariff) | 123.24 R$ | |
Gasoline (1 gallon) | 22.61 R$ | |
Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (Or Equivalent New Car) | 115,769.82 R$ | |
Toyota Corolla Sedan 1.6l 97kW Comfort (Or Equivalent New Car) | 107,860.95 R$ | |
Utilities (Monthly) | |
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Basic (Electricity, Heating, Cooling, Water, Garbage) for 915 sq ft Apartment | 779.30 R$ | |
Mobile Phone Monthly Plan with Calls and 10GB+ Data | 230.51 R$ | |
Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL) | 284.15 R$ | |
Sports And Leisure | |
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Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult | 271.61 R$ | |
Tennis Court Rent (1 Hour on Weekend) | 102.99 R$ | |
Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat | 59.75 R$ | |
Childcare | |
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Preschool (or Kindergarten), Full Day, Private, Monthly for 1 Child | 5,467.52 R$ | |
International Primary School, Yearly for 1 Child | 104,707.67 R$ | |
Clothing And Shoes | |
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1 Pair of Jeans (Levis 501 Or Similar) | 290.48 R$ | |
1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) | 186.72 R$ | |
1 Pair of Nike Running Shoes (Mid-Range) | 456.32 R$ | |
1 Pair of Men Leather Business Shoes | 610.04 R$ | |
Rent Per Month | |
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Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre | 9,586.89 R$ | |
Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre | 8,516.91 R$ | |
Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre | 15,728.88 R$ | |
Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre | 12,825.90 R$ | |
Buy Apartment Price | |
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Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment in City Centre | 4,583.00 R$ | |
Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre | 3,679.43 R$ | |
Salaries And Financing | |
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Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) | 17,315.48 R$ | |
Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentages (%), Yearly, for 20 Years Fixed-Rate | 6.29 |
Cost of Living in Vaughan | 16.10 miles |
Cost of Living in Richmond Hill | 22.87 miles |
Cost of Living in Oakville | 25.57 miles |
Cost of Living in Brampton | 27.62 miles |
Cost of Living in Whitby, ON | 33.84 miles |
Cost of Living in Burlington | 34.94 miles |
Cost of Living in Oshawa | 35.88 miles |
Cost of Living in Hamilton | 44.17 miles |
Cost of Living in Guelph | 58.38 miles |
Cost of Living in Cambridge | 60.12 miles |
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They apologized for honoring a Nazi terrorist who Terrorized White Jews.
They honor Khalistani Jihadis who terrorized and massacred brown Hindus.
Toronto- That is where dreams are broken. There's nothing you can do (except protest against the elites living in Rosedale and The Bridle Path.
Either the respondents are living in rent-controlled apartments for decades, or this site is dated.
The cops warned a complaint is harassment.
The White woman is naked on the street
No one can stop her, not the Toronto Police.
And it just goes to show.
You had a bad day
Got laid off
Saw a naked White woman naked with the children.
The cops said go on, you're offending women.
If you are against that, it's a crime of harassment.
You had a bad day.
The Canadian federal government gave almost ONE MILLION student visas THIS YEAR ALONE to BOGUS INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS who are working FULL TIME HOURS.
Just check the Seneca College packed to the brim with bogus international students.
Check Toronto courtesan Madison Winter, and she charges that for an overnight date.
I agree with anon below. You're stuck in Toronto, and the social problems which accompany it, affecting mainly young and middle aged men.
Why did you move to Toronto? Your life is over dude.
I had a government agency job, a house , a car and $9,000 USD in emergency savings.
I sold everything to move to Canada. No stable job. All savings exhausted.
My rent is over C$2,200 a month. I was laid off in the factory job. No job right now.
I wonder if jumping over the Don Valley overpass connecting Danforth and Broadview is the way out of this living hell.
Lots of people with degrees making under 25 dollars an hour here in Canada.
Crappy women.
They don't want you to work middle class jobs. They want you to be poor in Canada, while some dunce blonde bimbo gets promoted as Manager or CEO.
Sh*t f*minist country. Curse Canada!
The Canadian GDP stalled in the second quarter of 2023, missing market expectations of a 0.3% expansion and failing to build on the 0.6% growth rate in the previous three-month period.
On an annualized basis, the Canadian GDP contracted by 0.2%, well below market expectations of a 1.2% expansion. source: Statistics Canada
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/man-charged-after-2-women-sexually-assaulted-during-job-interview-at-north-york-office-building-1.6541581
Canada, in particular, Toronto is looking for COGS IN A MACHINE, WAGE SERFS and CONSUMERS.
Canada wants an educated underclass to work in factories and warehouses to enrich the landed gentry.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaHousing2/comments/164dmmr/look_at_all_those_jobs_canada_is_creating/
The government is deliberately increasing immigration to cause a job market crisis and a housing crisis, because they own rental properties to profit.
The condo owners in Vaughan still expect you to pay $2,500 a month Toronto rent prices while demanding that you have 1,000 years of work experience for minimum wage at $15/hr.
If that is the Canadian electorate, we do, indeed, deserve everything we get.
Cost for a root canal and crown replacement for a tooth is $10,000 without insurance. A tooth implant is $7,000. And they want to charge HST on top of that!
If you didn't move to Toronto, you wouldn't face any stress and despair. Who are you? Galen Weston and John Tory rich enough to enjoy Toronto?
youtube.com/watch?v=5zJRh7y4FDo
Which caused a reaction by government and corporations to increase mass immigration.
Which caused rent prices to increase.
Which caused the job market to lowball on wages.
Radical feminism funded by the ivory towers in Bay Street is partially responsible for this mess.
What we have in Toronto is an unemployed underclass of average men, radical feminists, sky high rents, low wages, and elites who get rich from the social misery and pain.
But the people coming from the slums are living like the slums and paying a large portion of their income on rent to a slumlord.
Rent control laws don't exist if slumlords are exploiting fake international students to extract rent from them.
A firefighter told me that in a studio apartment, they found that people were living in the space between the floors. Around 7 of them. They were splitting the rent together.
This is where Toronto is headed as a city. The rich will always get their land on the hillsides proverbially speaking, but the Canadian middle class is at risk of getting caught up with the living standards of third world slums.
1. Canada’s rental market facing ‘perfect storm’ as prices hit new high in July: report - National
2. Canada ‘absolutely’ can’t build more houses without more immigrants, minister says
3. Record levels of international students straining Canada's housing supply further
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The elites want to bring in more consumers to increase stagnant GDP at any cost while productivity is either slowing or declining. This is a socio-economic disaster in the making.
Thank you brave netizens for having the backbone to tell more people before they make the mistake of leaving everything behind for a broken promise.
I don't want to sell my property and leave my government job to pay rent for a room in Toronto and work in a factory as a wage serf.
There is something about Canada which rewards mediocrity and these FAKE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS who are flooding up the housing and job market.
America wouldn't let them in if these Pajeet fake international students tried to enter America.
A man with a wife and kids would never settle with living inside a basement with 10 other Pajeets and their unscrupulous slumlord molesting his daughter while she is sleeping inside her crib.
Too many Pajeets who are totally different from the earlier generations of immigrants from India.
Ironically, the fake international student Pajeets and Pajeetas are getting cash jobs through lowballing the wages while the real immigrants suffer with unemployment and declining union jobs and union wages.
Frankly, I couldn't care less about the future of this country, as the vast majority of Canadians are complacent. Mass immigration is often criticized, but few people acknowledge that the Canadian voter is fully responsible for supporting liberal policies that caused the family unit to disintegrate. Instead of a dynamic mix of various industries, the Canadian economy is dominated by monopolies. Only a handful of corporations dominate the Canadian economy. There isn't enough competition, which makes it harder to find a job and makes life more expensive.
White women caused the birth rates to collapse and politicians/corporations to brainwash everyone that to cater to the fall in birth rates, Canada must increase immigration.
The WHITE WOMAN caused birth rates to decline for the corporate masters. Corporations and white women benefit from one million Pajeets waiting in line for a job, or asking a narcissitic white woman for Bobs and Vagene to boost her ego.
This is why the WHITE MAN is LEAVING CANADA and let the white woman get gang raped by the Pajeets and Bobs Vagene lowlifes.
It seems to be out of a desire to keep housing prices high, to keep wages low, and to keep GDP growing.
Housing prices are maintained during this period of high-interest rates by ramping up demand through immigration.
This is great for our MPs, ruling class, and older generations, who are largely property owners that have become used to insane returns on their property values.
For a lot of regular people who own houses, they depend on the value of their property remaining high to retire.
Additionally, newcomers to Canada seem a lot more accepting of fitting many people into cramped living spaces (eg. 8 people sharing a 2 bedroom, like one of my former coworkers).
Wages are kept low by increasing the labour pool, especially for low-skill jobs.
Another Indian named Utshab Biswas who wants to drive down wages in Toronto and join his other Pajeets packed a dozen inside a basement while contributing to a lowered quality of life for Canadians.
How can i apply this process?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-asylum-seekers-shelter-stalemate-1.6903827
Toronto is declining. Trench foot was a thing in the early 1900s during WWI. What a shame that Toronto is a late stage capitalist hell if you're not already rich.
I mean, leave the tropical paradise where I live to go wash dishes in cold, dark Ottawa or Toronto just to pay rent? No thanks. I'll come as a tourist if you guys ever build something interesting, which is probably never.
Many people don't become homeless overnight. It's after they live in Toronto and being subjected to one rent increase that they get kicked to the curb.
Toronto is a meat grinder and it's not for you if you're established in your homeland.
Small businesses are shutting down because the greedy investors who own rental properties want to charge more and more rent for doing nothing.
It's also unspoken that several rent earners are packed into a studio apartment in Toronto and they pool up the rent which cost way more than if the apartment was rented to a couple or traditional nuclear family.
Sheer wage serfs in Canada. Nothing justifies paying C$2,500 a month for a one-bedroom apartment in Scarborough, but I guess if 5 people pool $500 a month, then that downgrades the Canadian way of life.
But do people living in third world slums pay $500 a month to share a shed with several people? I thought that they lived on the land for free, so why are immigrants paying $500 a month to share a bachelor pad with several people?
The Minister of Housing is buying rental properties in anticipation for the 500,000 immigrants a year. The government is bringing in millions of Indians and Pakistanis while Pakistan is currently suffering famine due to being overpopulated.
The Canadian government wants to bring the Pakistan and Indian slums to Canada, while demanding Manhattan cost of living prices.
Residential landlords are packing dozens of international students in the basement and charging about $1,000 per head. Canada has changed for the worse.
Canada reached 40 million people a few weeks ago. The population currently sits at 40,120,000 people in a matter of weeks. This is a disaster. We don't have enough jobs and housing for the influx.
It's a huge racket to lie to global citizens that Canada has jobs and affordable housing when in reality, Canada has no good jobs and expensive housing.
So much for Toronto being advertised as a "world class city". This thinking explains why there is an opioid crisis across Canada.
People are in dire straits that they inject dangerous doses of opiates just to psychologically distance themselves from the pain and suffering of the post-modern Canadian society where everything has a price tag, and Toronto is all about money and ever increasing costs.
The average person cannot keep up and many get left behind and die in deaths of despair.
Data can be skewed by outliers such as overpaid professors, teachers, lawyers and cops.
A more accurate wage would be median, or for newcomers, minimum wage at $16/hr in a general labour job.
Toronto is for those who are already rich and privileged. If you're coming as a newcomers, you start with the lower wage.
It is disgusting there are countless industries in Canada specifically setup for scamming new comers. (Shady colleges, immigration consultants, slum landlords and the list goes on).
Canadians aren't saving money because of high rents and mortgages, so the elites rely on newcomers to bring in their life savings to Canada.
No matter how hard I try to apply for jobs:
At first it was because I lack Canadian experience
so I pursued a degree. So I'm now overqualified. You just can't win in Toronto. You just can't win.
So while I'm sending resumes like crazy everyday, I just lay down and sometimes I pray that I die in my sleep.
That's Canada for you. It's a trap!
1 Amazon delivery position had 1000 applications. Canada is not easy as these people make it out to be. Canada just wants more people to come pay high course fees, pay a lot for food, and pay expensive rent to other Indians with property or rich Canadians. Do your research carefully people.
Its not all gold like these people tell you. Many people are going back to India for better quality of life.
Living there is a 100% guarantee that you will be alone for the rest of your life working, paying rent and groceries, and saving nothing, or worse, end up in credit card debt.
It's pointless and detrimental to expect a middle class job in Canada because Canadian employers don't want foreign credentials and experience. America is better in that regard.
By the way, Canada is becoming a controlled, coercive authoritarian country. Right now they are just boosting their economy by bringing new immigrants and charging international students 3-5x the local tuition rate.
Canada needs more people to bring in money to boost their GDP while at the same time, using that money to promote authoritarian measures.
The government and immigration consultants are portraying a land of milk and honey but when people arrive it's a struggle to survive.
Rent is about $2,500 a month but the only jobs available to newcomers are mainly deadend minimum wage jobs at $16/hr.
I wonder how will the elites get their $2300 a month 1-bedroom apartments rented if there aren't any jobs?
An economic system which relies on deceiving and misleading newcomers to bring their life savings to pay at least one-year rent upfront isn't sustainable.
It's designed that way to milk the life savings of newcomers and fatten the portfolios of the Canadian elites.
There is a reason why Canadian Embassies require immigrants to come with their life savings. It's to pay rent to a Canadian to boost the Canadian economy.
Rent is very expensive in Toronto. This applies in any city in Canada.
Many people are not getting jobs according to their educational background.
There are labour jobs being posted everywhere online but professional jobs are rare to find. These days, even labour jobs is having high numbers of applicants.
Colleges in Canada are distributing degrees and diplomas like diploma mills.
No placement policies from colleges. So you get a degree with no work experience. Canada is a scam.
North York: $2,000-$2750 a month
Etobicoke:$1,925-$2450 a month
Old Toronto/East York: $2,250 to $4,500 a month, especially in downtown Toronto.
Scarborough: $2199 to $2650 a month.
Check the rental listings online. Rent prices are creeping up in Toronto.
"Also if you are POC don't think about receiving call back for an interview. Look up job name discrimination ."
You don't need to be a poc to be a victim of name discrimination. They won't see your skin colour with just a resume + email cover letter and not all white people have a name like "Jim Davis". Believe me, it happens.
You're gonna be paying world class high rent prices to deal with low class and crude feminists who hate men.
Toronto is the epicenter of feminism and man-hating.
The huge misconception amongst Indian newcomers is that they convert Canadian salaries to Rupees and compare it to India's cost of living, rather than factoring into the Toronto rent prices and car insurance.
In Toronto, you got to pay rent. You can't live off the land. Police will literally stomp your face if you do.
The system is designed to extract as much rent from the working class.
And day dreaming seems to be a huge trend among newcomers. Be a realist.
How can you even think of getting a downpayment for a home if all that's available to you are dead-end jobs and you're paying rent to live in a basement and saving nothing?
In Toronto, there quite a few CEOs making millions of dollars a year, an overfunded police department where detectives earn $200,000 a year with overtime, but the majority are making less than $20,000 a year.
Median income is more accurate and is about $3,000 a year net income in Toronto. There was a time when people were begging to work for free to get job experience, but the NDP put a stop to unpaid internships.
Dreams and being told lies doesn't get you a job in Toronto.
Toronto is a scam. They want your GIC money to invest, and your savings to pay the retirements for the Canadian landlords.
It's a trap that you will regret if you are living well in your home country.
Canada in the 70s, 80s, 90s is different after Trudeau came into power.
What kind of jobs, minimum wage vs high skilled jobs? Nowadays it hard to get a part time jobs regardless of any fields.
Employers have huge expectation. Highly skilled jobs - if you are doctor in India and coming to be doctor in Canada then you have repeat the education to be full licensed. There is young born Canadian who are educated having a hard time finding a job, owning an house, living in their parents basements.
Also if you are POC don't think about receiving call back for an interview. Look up job name discrimination . There is so many stories of immigrants with Phd working at Subway. Most Indian immigrants or Indian international students depending on their skills are perceived to lack English skills as well which makes it hard to pass interviews as well.
Cost of living - Yes, there is inflation everywhere. However, Toronto is currently experiencing high rate of homelessness.
A one bedroom is $2500. One problem with Canada is wages regardless if you are highly skilled or not , the wages is not going to pay your bills.
There is so many protest that occurred in Toronto about wages (ex pcac strike and cra strike etc).
There is 5 to 6 Indian students cramped in a one bedroom and paying rent each. You want to live in this kind of Armageddon.
Look up CBC marketplace rental. Look up video on International Indian students saying they were lured into coming to Canada. I believed it's the students fault to trust these recruiters and come to a country not researching about. At the same time Canada fault for having diploma mills.
Health Care - It's collapsing. Family doctors are retiring, and none of the family doctors are taking new patients. Those living in Canada for 60 years have hard time finding family doctors because their family doctors have been retired. Again look at the news. The waiting list to see a doctor or specialist is long. Insurance doesn't cover up most. Look up travel insurance. Emergency room waiting is long usually the doctor would be prescribe any medication or don't allow to see a specialist.
Mental health crisis is huge and most counselling involves money. Prescriptions, dental care, eye care are not covered by OHIP
Crime rate/ sexual Assault -There is TTC crime attacks, stabbing stranger, woman was lit on fire. There is also international Indian students who was shot near the affluent Rosedale neighbourhood while going to work. There is stories about sexual and physical assault at TTC and sidewalk.
There is also 2nd generation ( Indian, Sri Lankan , Bangaladesh and Pakistani ) who were born and raised in Canada.
Most of them have ethnic name who have MBA from UOFT can't land a job.
Canada is not what it used to used to be and there is so many people who are unemployed especially immigrants and young born Canadian POC. In the 70s, you can work a minimum wage jobs and pay for your house but not anymore. The problem with most Indian immigrants is they are not doing their research and come here and are trapped. A steady number is now resorting to suicide due to shame and being in dire straights.
Mc Donalds and Tim Hortons managers are only employing temporary foreign workers which is making Canadian people really mad.
Canada is broken due to false promises of leader, corruption and etc.
Canada is one of the most depressing country in the world. During the pandemic, so many nurses and doctors left the country due to wages. So yeah,
I'm not being negative. It's the truth. I'm also not discouraging people to come here. Just do your research.
There is so much red tape to open a business and you're just going to deplete your assets and life savings with no chance of upward social mobility.
Toronto is just a ponzi scheme at this point.
Can’t find a job which pays above minimum wage in this city.it’s a trap!
It was a different country. Toronto was a cheaper city.
I can't really see a future for this country anymore under Justin Trudeau or Chrystia Freeland. Politicians are so bad, and messing things up so much that I don't even recognize Canada anymore.
The truth is that, Canada is quickly slipping into a developing country.
Move to Canada and: freeze being homeless, rent an overpriced basement suite (if you're lucky), get a menial job, pay exorbitant taxes, don't get sick (waitlist for family doctors), get homesick, go back to home country broken financially and mentally.
Within context, I over heard and Indian couple in No Frills last night complaining about the high cost of living in Canada and how it was a mistake moving to Canada..
Sure the jobs might be well paying compared to developing economies but it’s all relative. The cost of living here is exorbitant.
Only rich immigrants need apply.
For everyone else, think about it, if all the money goes to shelter and food and there’s no money left over to send back home to family, no money left to save up for a house.
So what is the point of moving here? It defeats the purpose. You're just existing to pay rent and food to the oligarchs.
Unless you come from Syria or Ukraine there is absolutely no reason to come to Canada right now.
Only those well vested in real estate are protected in this country and have no idea how the million immigrants coming here soon will be able to afford to live let alone buying any RE.
Banks are trying to lower again the rates so the RE circus can continue like the last 20 years so we’re back to business….what a joke Toronto, and ultimately Canada has become. Relying on Ponzi schemes.
Immigrants that arrived in Canada from 2016 to 2019 earn significantly less than non-immigrants. Those immigrants had a median income of $35.6k/year, about 20% (-$7.2k) less than their non-immigrant peers. If you assume a dual median income household, finding shelter within their budget isn’t an easy task.
Canada’s Recent Immigrants Can’t Afford To Rent In Most Cities
Rental housing within their budget isn’t an easy task at those income levels. Maxing out their budget to the shelter poverty limit of 30%, they can afford a maximum of $1,780/month. That’s about 17% lower than the $2,140/month a dual income, non-immigrant household could spend before hitting the shelter poverty definition.
The average listing for a one bedroom apartment across Canada was just a hair over $2,000/month in April. Keep in mind that’s across the country, not in more expensive cities like Toronto (avg. $2,370/month) or Vancouver ($2,600/month).
Repeat everyday.
The world is changing rapidly, and not for the best.
There is a bad omen with Toronto, especially if you're a male you will understand why.
The longer you stay in Toronto, the harder it's for you to leave.
Canada is declining and nobody knows whether the economy will become fruitful again.
Empathy is the highest form of knowledge. Time to wake up.
Look at that long food bank line while Sean Fraser insists that there's a labour shortage in Canada.
twitter.com/ManyBeenRinsed/status/1653413816112148482?s=20
Canada snares in immigrants, takes all their money, then kicks them into the general population to inflate the housing bubble and strain the low wage job market. Think twice before moving here.
Canada is a real mess. Rents are approaching CDN$3000 a month in Toronto, but you're getting lowballed for wages.
I think we are reaching the upper-limit. The real estate bubble will pop in the next few years.
Over 50% of Canadians have less than $1000 in disposable income, while the cost of living is increasing. Canadians hold on average $21,000 in non-mortgage debt, while credit card debt is rapidly increasing, as much as +16% from mid 2021. This is a national emergency.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sean Fraser is on a watchlist by far-right groups for promoting extreme mass immigration.
Even moderates are angry at Sean Fraser for his 500,000 immigrants a year and think it's too much at a time there is a housing crisis.
Yes, it's bloody expensive. Yes, the gap between the rich and poor is atrocious. And yes, opportunity in this city is limited to certain sectors, educations, work experiences, citizenships, and a strong hit of nepotism/family assistance (if you bought any property in the last five years anywhere below Eglinton you either 1) had assistance with the down payment, 2) lived with family for cheap/no rent while working at Toronto wages, 3) cashed out on some kind of industry boom).
The city has major issues and there is major cognitive dissonance with everyone who can spend $18 on a cocktail and then complain about people without housing living in tents in parks. All that said, for what it's worth, I found a home here (even though I will never be able to purchase a home here) and I know so many people who have felt the same.
Oh and yes Brad, many of us are feminists. If that is a problem, feel free to leave. We will be better for it.
You guys don't know the feminist hell that awaits you as a man in Canada. You want to pay high rents and have little or no autonomy as a man?
The federal government is feminist.
If you're a young male, you'd be a fool to end up in Canada where feminists are like roaches and they dislike men.
This country lacks work labor, and many Canadians treat their immigrant workers as animals, as another piece of equipment.
They treat migrant workers in the factories as if they have no rights. And don't get fooled with the wages. Though the wages are high in your home country, the minimum wage can barely afford monthly rents in Toronto.
If you love the cold, gloomy weather expanding for 6 months, or coming from a country that is in chaos / war, Canada might be good enough for you.
For those who are well-educated, have experience globally, Canada is the grave for your career and life.
What a weird country. Inviting scholars/professionals into their land, then treat them with disdain, while still complaining about them coming to your country. That's Canada for you.
Pay $2,000 a month plus electricity and sometimes water to rent cockroach apartment.
There are not enough well-paying jobs that can afford the cost of living in Toronto.
The ironic oxymoron is that to survive in Toronto, you need dual-income couples, yet Canada's fertility rates and marriage rates are falling, while divorce rates and a new phenomenon called incels are rising in Canada.
It's dire in Canada.
If they kill rent control half of the city would go homeless temporarily, and probably some sort of unrest at that point
But 18 months down the road from that rents would have to drop since nobody could afford it and units would sit empty. So in a way, rent control is another factor thats creating housing inflation for newcomers to TO beyond the normal market price
$1800 to $2400 for a 1-bed apartment sounds about right.
However, the average wage is inflated due to outliers. Nobody starts off with $26/hr net pay in Toronto.
The most you can get is about $15.50/hr to $18/hr if you are a newcomer, and those jobs are dead-end jobs which require physical labour.
Even if you earn $4,000 net a month, half of that is for current market rent alone.
So choose the life you want to live if you want to suffer with the rest of wage serfs in Toronto.
I'd wager that if rent control was eliminated tomorrow and everyone had to pay market rent, over half of the renters will be homeless.
They are overpriced, and many of the girls are former strippers and e-thots.
The feds wants to open the floodgates of men to make the pimps richer ainnit?
Most of these new immigrants will be competing for blue collar jobs, as the system does not recognize foreign credentials. The only ones content with life in Canada will the new comers escaping third world conditions to work in better conditions in Canada. That's what the government and corporations want. Grateful, obedient taxable servants.
Terrible people.
It’s cold for 6 months of the year and you’ll meet some of the most socially awkward people.
The majority of women are terrible and materialistic. If you are not wealthy, say goodbye to your dating and social life.
If you’re a single male budget for female companionship which starts from $400 per hour. The male-female interaction is monetized in Toronto.
Huge city with plenty of people and money, but potential is always wasted. This is a city which decided to run a parkway along the lake instead of having a nice public waterfront
Concrete hellhole. If you have any travelling experience at all, there is nothing to see in Toronto in terms of sights or architecture. Everything is ugly concrete, chrome, glass
Infrastructure is not maintained properly. Internet and power frequently go out like a third world country and the local hydro and telecoms severely understaff the repair teams so things stay down forever
People are awful. The population of Toronto consists entirely of assholes, pretentious hipsters, and finance industry suits
Traffic is terrible. The most congested highway in North America is in Toronto. Everyone drives like a lunatic
Insanely expensive. Rent is expensive, food is expensive, metro is expensive ... I heard a recent study found Toronto is now more expensive than NYC
We are entering a stage where the local birth rates are falling, and to prevent a collapse in the pension funds, Toronto has to import more wage serfs to pay taxes and rent for the older Canadians who are retired.
Toronto is a scam and a Ponzi scheme.
Canada does not attract the best and this has long term consequences. Skilled immigrants leave after some time because they have OPTIONS while the money launderers, drug lords and refugees stay.
The federal government's plan to increase the number of immigrants entering Canada, with a goal of bringing in 500,000 people does not help anyone if the only people coming here are taxable subservient automatons. Canada is slipping in the global index of livability due to the quality of people it attracts.