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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.

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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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maybe i'm a wacky leftist but... good? lets make everyone get 60k?? why not?

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 :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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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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People should be able to live alone on minimum wage. Min wage workers fuel downtown. They shouldn't be priced out of where they work.

:marseybrainlet: Everyone should be able to afford to live on their own in the most desirable areas.

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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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