https://old.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/vgpgav/how_are_you_supposed_to_live_here_on_1500_per_hour?sort=controversial
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What do you mean I can't afford an apartment downtown working 32.5 hours a week 
Centretown’s average household income among property owners in between 85k and 90k.
maybe i'm a wacky leftist but... good? lets make everyone get 60k?? why not?
If you read anything in this thread read this chain, truly the peak of reddit financial literacy.
If you work for minimum wage sorry, you shouldn't expect to live on your own. Not in today's world.
Being born a leaf is tantamount to being griefed every day of your life 
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Economically illiterate.
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That map seems to be just the city centre and... well... yeah? You are not going to be able to live in the city centre on the minimum. Anywhere. It's not like bus drivers got 3-room flats in the city centre in USSR, either. Limited resources are always going to have to have a limited access
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Whole city for scale.
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I would get it if it was any other city but living in Ottawa's downtown core (lol) is having the hustle and bustle costs without any of the hustle and bustle.
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Yeah ottawa is the most boring city/"capital" I've ever been to. You probably have more hustle and bustle in fricking mississauga
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Like seriously, just move to Gatineau. It's cheaper and more fun.
God redditcels are entitled.
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I live here, the problem is that everything here in this shitshow country is expensive. Whether it's the $15 chicken, $5 broccoli and $5/lb mushrooms at the grocery store, the $3.70 for the sub par public transit, or the over $1000/month my wife and I pay for a bachelor apartment. It's all ridiculously over priced and it wouldn't be so bad if the gouging wasn't coming from all sides.
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Oh, I don't doubt you, I've heard a lot of "interesting" things about Canadian rents in general. I'm not suggesting that they're reasonable. I'm just saying that literally nowhere in time and space would a person making local minimum salary would be able to afford to live in the city centre
It's something that would literally be impossible to accomplish.
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When I was a younger man, you could pull of living in downtown Ottawa by yourself on a minimum wage job if you were willing to pound the pavement looking for places that weren't listed in the classifieds and being willing to put your nose down in certain other aspects of your life. I think part of the issue was that because Ottawa is considered a boring and undesirable place to live, it wasn't really in line with somewhere like Toronto and it's just been a massive correction over the last couple of decades because people will just take what they can get at this point.
We can pull it off down here with two rather meager salaries, but it's a conscious choice we make to be able to walk anywhere we need to go.
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I knew some people that went to UOttawa who all said it was lacking in the "hustle and bustle" aspect. I heard a lot of people live in Gatineau and just Communte but I have no idea how the commute/how expensive places there are.
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It is lacking in the hustle and bustle, that's what I like about it. It's a city of a million people with all of the amenities and it's usually boring as shit. Gatineau/Hull used to be considerably cheaper than here but the issue was the public transit. When I lived in Gatineau, I was working till midnight and the last bus home left at around 11pm. That left me with an almost 90 minute walk home every night after work. (It sucked aside from the one Halloween I ate some shrooms and wound up walking home and talking with Jim Morrison along the way.)
Now Gatineau is just all around shitty and filled with pissy Quepeckers.
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maple syrup has plenty of calories and it grows on (in) trees, learn to adapt and forage like the rest of the anarchists living in big cities
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It's a capital.
All that wealth from taxes is being transferred into that city, so don't be surprised to see higher prices there. Same with DC and its surrounding areas.
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Lmao i pay less than that for my mortgage on a house. Urbanites stay losing
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Average house price in this city is 800k. I really need to get out of here but it's tough to figure out where to go.
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Holy frick these redditors think you could live without roommates on minimum wage at any point in modern history. In some ways, they have an even rosier view of the past than rightoids.
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Do they realize more than 1 person can live in a house or apartment? Redditors are so lonely they don't realize other people exist
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Why can't a single person afford a 3-bedroom luxury loft? Idgi, must be capitalism
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I think the thing i hate most about progressives is the way the constantly make excuses when someone provides them a solution. Go live in the suburbs if you can’t afford downtown “ohhh but i’m disabled (read: fat or anxiety)”. Go find a better job “ohhh but i don’t have any skills”.
These people truly are children. Progressives from families with money embrace their extended childhood by going to grad school and getting doctorates because they too don’t have any skills so they just remain in a classroom from the age of 5 to 30. Progressives from families without money get booted in to the world and then complain that they don’t live in a penthouse in a prime location even though they work 32.5 hours a week as a barista.
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Living in a 2-bedroom Malibu flat is a human right and if it can only be secured by revolution, then so be it.
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Not a single one saying build more. Good morning I hate NIMBYs
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Maybe you should go talk to some psychologists before offering an option. First off, it's obvious that your only exposure to kink has been through porn. There's nothing wrong with a naked body, it just provides a teachable moment. Kids in Europe are exposed to way more nudity than the kids in the US, and they turn out fine.
Kink is not sexual abuse, but you're trying to equate the two because that's YOUR current understanding of what kink is, which is wrong. There's nothing wrong with a child seeing someone in bdsm get up, you just have to explain that some adults like dressing up in costumes. Kinksters at Pride are not engaged in s*x acts, and you shouldn't confuse their self-expression with obscenity.
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Redditors actively working against their own good is par for the course
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White supremacist john oliver just did a show about how people need rent control, and showed examples of how awful life is in cities who have had rent control.
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I'm sorry. I'm neurodivergent and suffer from PTSD and depression.
It's impossible for me to live with another human, because that would stress me out immediately! I mean if I want to sleep and they go to the potty, that is impossible. Or if I'm home and on reddit on the weekend and they have friends over? My social anxiety would kill me, thus I couldn't even go to the potty!
Thus I deserve a 2 (at least!) bedroom flat!
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This history of poop bags and piss jugs, explained.
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