Cost of Living in Vancouver

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Commercial job and residential

Single person in Coquitlam
Mortgage, strata fees & house insurance = $1400
Cell phone (100), hydro (60), internet/cable (180) and gym fee (16) = $356
Groceries (250), dog food/treats (50) = $300
Credit card $300
Hair/nails/lashes $130
Pet insurance $30
Gas $60
Prescriptions $200
Liquor store/social outings w friends $100
Total amount $2,876
Earnings $3,000
I WORK TO LIVE!! BC IS SOOO EXPENSIVE. TIME TO FIND A SUGARDADDY :-D

My sunny 600 sq ft West End apartment with mortgage and strata fee = $ 1,025.00
Utilities ( cell phone, land line, hydro , internet and gym fee ) = $ 110.00 Groceries = $ 250.00 Frivolous spending ( beer, pubs, diners and such ) = $ 800.00 Total amount = $ 2,185.00 On a net income of $ 2,900.00 per month I save $ 700.00 Life is a breeze

Vancouver is so expensive, its killing me.
I work hard for chinese restarant. he geed me free noodles but say money is tight. give me noodle soup for baby but tht no good. want dollars for baby diaper but he says use table cloth material.
im very sad. city too expensive for me. ok for boss and his mother father and 3 children. all have nice car. drive in drieway. i went deliver food their house. lovely very lovey just like emperor house.
i make hard to save money but nothing left. no money for cream for daughter rash.
i find too expensive here.
what to do.
help me please

Thought i Could cash out but the bubble bursted now I'm stuck, wife left because money tied in the house, doing shift work, got aging parents, became diabetic, stressed throwing up all the time. Bad timing

yes most bosses here are Chinese .they work very very hard and expect thst from you.
it makes no difference if you are a tin Horton worker or a optician in walmart very high chance your boss will be Chinese and will expect Chinese standard of high work.

I was in rest room my boss shouted at me he said Jeff you are 1 minute over...you multiply thst by 6 and then 50..num of employees. he said thst is 300 .if I pay 10 dollar hour ..u will make me bankrupt.

I said yes Mr Chan

Due to recent Boeing Max 8 grounding, all major flights prices have been jacked up.
For Vancouver to Calgary return flights used to be around $200 and now it is around $700 for Air Canada and Westjet.
This price gouging may be temporary but may continue for another 6+ months until they fix the airplane’s safety issues.

Price per square metre needs to be seriously updated here. It was 1,345 per square foot in 2018, that would equal over $14000 per square metre not what numbeo is citing at 11,700. Please please please update this. Peoples salaries are being based on your data.

basically your spending 90 percent of your salary on living with not enough to go out- if you go out your in debt even if you have a good job modern slavery is vancouver. but its beautiful but quickly becoming like Hongkong in the sense of smaller and smaller apartments long commute times, very hard work and employers from abroad taking advantage of you as your boss from abroad imposing ridiculous work hours and hard conditions that have relation to Canadian law. .

I immigrated here in 1975. Back then Chinatown is Chinatown. Now it run down, closes at 5pm and nest besides 10 blocks of human waste of drug addicts and homeless encouraged by city hall. Go look for yourself. Between Cambie running to Gore,10 blocks of human garbage. Only city in western world that cannot afford fireworks for New Year. I still live because i am owner of a company. But already planning to move to Asia where costs are 1/3 to 1/5 of Vancouver. Vancouver was a livable city. No more.

lifelong vancouver resident here.

if you are looking for short-term adventure, vancouver is probably fun and worth the price of admission for a year or less. come for the summer!

if you want to move here to start a life, i would urge you to reconsider your destination. vancouver is at its heart a desperately imbalanced city. we have the services and amenities of a major city, but we have the industries and economic opportunities of a medium sized town. it is not hard to find a job here, but most jobs are not satisfying and pay you just enough to live here, not to grow. this might be fine in the summer, when the air is warm and the sun shines, but in the winter, this can be a very lonely and depressing place, lots of rain. the smiling wealthy people (who you will see at our designer stores, nice restaurants, etc) all run away to whistler to ski or somewhere warm down south for the winter.

vancouver looks big because of the towers and concentrated infrastructure, but this is a bit deceiving. we are pressed up against the mountains and the ocean, and our strategic location as a port city inflates the importance of our industries. in reality, this is a small town. i see people on the street every day that i know, recognize, etc. the local government is run by a handful of people who all know each other. every year i have friends that leave because they see they have no future here.

i love that people from all over the world have come to make vancouver a beautiful place. but i fear that there is no longer any opportunity here. we have lots of problems already that we have to deal with (homelessness, drug problems, finding good industries, adequate housing) and these will only get worse before they get better. i would hate for someone to move to this city with a dream and have it crushed by the great dead end that is vancouver!

Whenever I ask a Canadian resident the Toronto vs Vancouver question, the first answer is invariably "Vancouver is terribly expensive but Toronto is fast catching up". But the comments here seem to suggest that larger BC community itself is not a good place for new immigrants to start a new life in Canada, irrespective of the salary I might be offered, quite contrary to the popular perception of Canada. So, Toronto seems to be the best option.

Hello guys☺ Can you give some information about really study and work in Vancouver in one time, because i am going to study in Vancouver but i have not information how really cost and living in this area so if anyone have this information please, write. And finding job forexample waiter for students in Vancouver

Well here we go !!!

Me think with good wisdom its popped.

I'm surprised that Vancouver, BC registers an index that is lower than places like Tacoma, WA or Olympia, WA. Given the cost of housing in Vancouver (even adjusted for the value of Canadian currency), plus relatively high tax costs, I would think that Vancouver would at least be on par with Seattle.

Surrey is not a true reflection of Canada.
More like a 3rd world city.
Too many people !!
Really dont like it

As per my calculations Living in Surrey BC would cost less than Montreal, QC, plus no need for winter tires, garage rental, extremely high car plates and insurance, cheaper grocery, clothing, gas, near 5% less sales taxes (12% instead of near 17%). I found really nicely located end of New Westminster/begining Surrey for $925 1br. 750sqf. heated, pool and nice garden.

I have an apt in a not so good old building about 50min from downtown Montreal by public transit or 30min by car. and it is the cheapest I could find for a 1br. I pay $960 - Internet (no cable or TV, phone..) unlimited $80 (special rate for 1 yr, then will be $105+taxes with videotron), Hydro QC: $75 (I only have a fridge and stove, and light bulbs which I make sure all are off when not using and no a/c!) Garage $150 (they get you there! we need that in -40 winters!)

Can anyone tell me why everyone says it's so expensive in Vancouver greater area? Moving to Surrey I'd save at least $300 a month with rental related and even more with Grocery.

The estimate given here of $3,720 for a family of four (not including rent) is pretty accurate. We're a family of three and pay slightly more than that. Housing in our case adds another ~$3,000 bringing the total close to $7,000 per month.

http://www.getto1percent.com/what-are-the-monthly-expenses-for-a-family-of-three-in-vancouver/

Hi
I'm migrating to vancouver this year and i wanna study my phd there so i wanna know about the salary for a microbiologist or such jobs, can i afford the prices such as rent, food etc for one person? I mean can i save any? Can i have an average life wtih this conditions that i said

Thanks for helping me

Dear Mohammed

you are asking very silly questions.
Do your research, you are planning to move to one of the most expensive cities in the worls with two kids
either you take about 2 to 3 million with you, or het a job paying 100-200K canadian minimum
Otherwise your kids will have no future compared to the rich children in vancouver.

These prices are not accurate, people forget to include non-sale price and taxes and other fees and tips. Probably about 30% to 50% more than posted prices depending on the location of the metro van, so use this as a loose range. Also, currently there are no rental vacancies, so people have hard time finding ANY place.

Solution to the housing crisis is to limit the ownership of real estate to 1 property per registered owner.