Living on minimum: it’s 54 hours a week
A new report shows how difficult to impossible it is to live in most locations in Canada on minimum wage, but Montreal is still more livable than Toronto despite recent surges in rent levels. La Presse puts it this way: you have to work 54 hours a week at minimum to afford a two‑bedroom place here. (And they don’t say so, but it won’t be a fancy one.)
Ian 19:03 on 2019-07-18 Permalink
Or more likely you’ll take a 1 bed or roomies like everyone else on minimum wage in Montreal has done for decades, and you’ll pick a cheap neighbourhood. Why is that even worth mentioning? More newsworthy is that a 6 and a half by Laurier metro now goes for $2500 a month. Let’s talk about the sheer insanity in the AirBnB hoods, not wring our hands over vague averages that sound maybe okay. I almost suspect this story of trying to normalize the situation, like maybe La Presse has a lot of real estate advertisers, hm?