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Vet technician, 33, is scraping by in a small city Ontario house her parents paid for: ‘It’s a lot of guilt’ (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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“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.

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[–] rab@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No. They simply increase demand. They scoop up rentals, causing rent to increase. Then landlords get richer and buy more properties. And we don't build the required amount of houses for the amount of immigrants we have.

It's not the immigrants fault, in fact they are the victims of being scammed into moving here.