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Welcome to Canada leg

2 bedroom duplex house rental is probably like 2700-3000 CAD minimum

and that's after my 20% increase

buildings older than 5 years have a 5%/year rent increase cap, doug ford removed it so any building built in the last 5 years (the nice ones) have no cap

I mean, I pay more for the streamer house, but loan rates are bad rn

You also got a massive house

when they come down and I refinance, I'll be less broke

I am sure you'd pay less if you got a shitty shack somewhere

my nice college apartments were $600 and then $800, all utilities included, with appliances

you also have a full time salary though spooky

well, double that, because they were 2BRs and I had a roomate

I have 25200 CAD/year to work with after I subtract tutition costs

I was paying under $900 living alone in undergrad

You can barely find a room for the CAD equivalent of that, if not way more expensive

like I said, housing is megafucked here

DC is bad rn too, but yeah Canada everywhere is worse

it's actually insane

did you only look in canada for PhDs?

I do not want to be particularly far from my family, and if I was going elsewhere it would've been Europe

PIKA come do you PHD here with me, you can have an illiterate prof too

I have zero interest in going to the US

dw we'll come to you

I did look at the netherlands when I was doing my masters, but I missed the deadline for those schools

figured it would be funny to apply to live with Fire

and I was looking at switzerland but they ghosted me until i had already accepted a job offer

To be honest leg, I just applied to the schools my supervisor suggested would be good for me lol

So what ethnic food are you going to become acquainted with Pika?

Chinese? Indian? Arab?

quebecois

I plan to cook my own food

since I assume whatever slum area you live in will be taken over by some nationality

I know enough basic meals that it is not an issue

I suggest korean

yeah but the grocery stores Pika

you'll be shopping at a K-Town market

or smt

Welcome to Canada, Loblaws is everywhere

they monopolize food distribution more or less

so getting western food will not be an issue

yeah but like, when your Canadian market is 20 minutes by bus away, and there's a Halal market across the street

you'll end up going to Abdulahan's

there is one on the main street that I will be on lol

and no, I will take the bus reusable bag in hand, buy my food, and return home the way god intended

thank you very much

One day Pika, you will live somewhere that doesn't require you to take the bus everywhere

and you'll love life

I like taking the bus

get a bicycle

I have not rode a byclic since I was 10