She always knew her salary wouldn’t be high but didn’t aspire to be rich. What she didn’t realize was that she would struggle to afford basic things like shelter and food
“It feels like I’ve been working harder and harder and sliding backwards down the scale,” she says.
Making $50k in a small town and still “scraping by” is scary. Maybe I’m just old, but I’d hoped that kind of income would be enough for some kind of comfort.
It is not an available option to most Canadians, especially the vet tech in this article.
It’s a shame that the article doesn’t specify which town, but it does say University town.
If I were to guess, especially since she’s a vet tech, is that she lives in Guelph or Windsor. Other vet universities in Ontario are in much larger cities.
If that’s the case, she has quite a few of options for phone and internet.
She lives in a college town. The vast majority of people in Canada live in urban centers. So, for most single people in Canada, spending less than $200/mo in Internet+phone is trivially simple.
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My own bills:
Internet (Beanfield): $40/mo including taxes.
Cell (Freedom): $34/mo per phone, incl taxes.
Beanfield may not be available everywhere, but Teksavvy has similar plans.
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It’s a shame that the article doesn’t specify which town, but it does say University town.
If I were to guess, especially since she’s a vet tech, is that she lives in Guelph or Windsor. Other vet universities in Ontario are in much larger cities.
If that’s the case, she has quite a few of options for phone and internet.
Teksavvy is available nearly everywhere and I know they have similar plans because I was a customer.
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She lives in a college town. The vast majority of people in Canada live in urban centers. So, for most single people in Canada, spending less than $200/mo in Internet+phone is trivially simple.