Just saw your posts about Canadian life and how price is high. Would you mind if I ask you where you live in Canada? Province, City, Downtown or countryside ? I see you signature that shows you already landed.
International man of mistery.Just saw your posts about Canadian life and how price is high. Would you mind if I ask you where you live in Canada? Province, City, Downtown or countryside ? I see you signature that shows you already landed.
Asking those because I have enough experience on living in Canada (lived already in Quebec, Montreal, Toronto cities and know the life very well)
Ontario, apartment (so no way to grow something except maybe some basil or sage), no GTA area but the city of the decent size.Just saw your posts about Canadian life and how price is high. Would you mind if I ask you where you live in Canada? Province, City, Downtown or countryside ? I see you signature that shows you already landed.
Asking those because I have enough experience on living in Canada (lived already in Quebec, Montreal, Toronto cities and know the life very well)
, another meal is replaced with salad. Leaving you with 1 normal meal. Yes that is ideal if you want to loose your weight to reach next bikini season, but maybe less ideal for the daily stress and mission impossible for any manual working person.Ontario, apartment (so no way to grow something except maybe some basil or sage), no GTA area but the city of the decent size.
What is a bit funny, that when I point out to count with costs of 330 to 500 CAD (depends on the life style and preferences) for basic home cooked food per person (babies might not need that much food, but theirs might be more expensive, plus there are different daily needs which are not counted for older children - like Pampers), then everybody jumps, that that is too much. And at the same time, they post article that is more or less proving the point. Statement like - how I reduced budget to 600 CAD per month (later revealed, that that is for 2 retired people) translates into 300 CAD per person and month.
Weekly menu, where half of the time you skip breakfast (hurray for coffee) and where some little things are missing (bacon and 1 egg but no bread
The original question was if he can live decently from such salary in Toronto together with wife and a child. And the answer is no.
But he can survive from it. Surviving equals no saving and equals long term problem when replacing things that cost a bit more
....have to believe things about ur first hand experiences & the budget plans...Buddy did you try intermittent fasting to loose weight?
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another perspective,
about eating on such a budget plan....from my experience..
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I used to eat normal & used to enjoy my food well that it took me to 104kgs in 2013 Dec....
thereafter I decided to eat only things when I was really hungry & only what was necessary...to cut short,an year later I was 40kilos lower & ran a half marathon (for first time in my life) & timed better than some navy personnel who ran along with me...
what I realised in the process is that man can live on one fifth of what he usually consumes...but we all are conditioned from birth on supplying food at regular intervals...on survival mode man needs so little and everything starts becoming so tasty once you choose to eat when you are really really hungry and only the necessary amount...man's eating habit changed only with organised farming & social living...for those years men lived as a hunter gatherers, we ate when we found something,just the way over half of the world in some poor African & Asian countries still eat...eating and drinking may be once a day or once in couple of days...eating whatever they get
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I give that much importance only to food though I surely enjoy a nice dinner with family and friends...but I don't think cost of food will ever beat me or my family ever,anywhere
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and the ease I'm feeling once I slipped into the change feels so much better than the happiness some rich food could get me...
I'll munch on tasty food at times ...but that's not of greatest importance...
I find coffee without cream and sugar / green tea as good as with cream or sugar...I find an oatmeal with not much of tasties added as good as a rich Biriyani...
I'll be sad if a pair of sneakers costed more and they started charging for running on the streets / cycling in the open
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I'm just sharing my perspective...no way trying to tell my thoughts are correct...I find it better than before...
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I don't know...I just went crazy about it ...just imagine u are stuck with only 3 kilos of vegetables a pound of bread and 3kilos of fruits and 250 grams nuts for a week...drink lots of water and try to push urself to the limit to stretch it for at least 4-5 days with such a stock ...may be some onions & salad leaves & few lemons and a teaspoon of salt & two table spoons of olive oil and a some lettuce leaves...
I found this Statistics Canada website that shows Average household food expenditure for 2014 and 2015.
I like you....
Sorry, I am not familiar with the job market in those NOC codes, but a quick NOC code lookup gives the following titles:That was really insightful, am grateful for shedding your insights on this subject.
With respect to acknowledging the offer made, I was under the notion that you had to rush up and accept the offered job quotation without an argument. I realize my perception was wrong. You are right, "we shouldn't sound desperate" to which I was completely blinded.
What about your take on 2281,2282? which is my present area.
