And it's really tough. Most of them have post-secondary educations. Most of them got a raise last week when the Ontario minimum wage went to $14/hr. Most of them live in Toronto, where a smallish one bedroom apartment close to public transit runs $1500/month or better.
Meet Mike and Hanna;
They're gonna beat the system. They've given up their apartment near U of T. They kept a building key, though. They'll stay here on weekends, in the igloo they just built in the yard. They'll commute to Toronto and live in a quiet stairwell of their former building during the week to keep their jobs. If they pack away that $1500/month in rent money into a high-interest savings account, they should have saved a down-payment on their own place by the time they're in their forties or fifties.
And the igloo's not a half-bad abode. Beer coolers built right into the walls! I'm thinking of letting them sleep in the house and I'll take the igloo, I like it so much!
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