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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)
submitted 11 months ago by sbv@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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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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[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago

I bought it when I was making about $40k salary actually

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