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r/Ottawa hustle and bustlecels sneed about rent

https://old.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/vgpgav/how_are_you_supposed_to_live_here_on_1500_per_hour?sort=controversial

From our OP

how do you divide a month into 160 hours full time? most sites say 30-40 hours per week is full time, so 130 per month is considered the "average"

What do you mean I can't afford an apartment downtown working 32.5 hours a week :soycry:

Centretown’s average household income among property owners in between 85k and 90k.

In 2020 the household median income was 66k.

So yeah, Ottawa is quite a prohibitive market. So are the overwhelming majority of major cities in the country. It’s a real problem.

:#marseygigaretard:

Using one bedrooms as a gauge for where min wage should be would not work, everyone would need to make 60k ish to be able to live on their own comofortably, and thats about double min wage. You cant just double min wage without wrecking everything.

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.

What the actual frick am I reading. If you've been dealt a bad spawn and bad cards at life, you 100% deserve to be able to live somewhere and alone. I've found yet another reason to hate our society. Can't believe people like you actually exist. Cannot live alone because you make min wage wtf???

Oh and before you label me, I make 75k a year so no I'm not someone else who is making min wage and trying to leech the system.

Being born a leaf is tantamount to being griefed every day of your life :marseyagree:

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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 :marseyshrug:

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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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