Hi! My family and I are from the Philippines. We are currently in the last stages of the immigration process, specifically complying with the medical requirements. We are planning to move to either Mississauga or in Vancouver. Can anybody refer a website where I can view the Cost of Living in these areas? Anybody know the cost for monthly groceries, renting a home for 4, car rental, and other expenses? I need your help. Thanks.
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Well We are recent immigrants in toronto land area as well, just landed here almost a month ago and got appartment in Missisaga area, the two bed room decent appartment is around 1000 to 1250 $ per month, one bed room is almost 950 $ or so.....depends on you if you dont mind living in some old building you might can get a 2 bed room appartmet for 900 $ as well, but its very important for you to know that you will be needing a Co-signer for your self to get an appartment since you or your family wont be having any credit history peior to your landing, the monthly grossery is around 500-700 for 2 persons ...! Hope that info will help thanks
I am also going to migrate to Canada. I want to know the average expense for family of two plus one child in Ontario. If i live in sub-urban areas, how much will it cost.
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I am also planning to relocate to Canada. I am only starting the process now. A good approach is to start with an analysis of your current salary and major expenses. I.e what you pay on your bond or rent, your car/s, your internet, your cable/digital tv. You then use the current exchange rate and see what you earn and what you spend in CAD terms based on your current earning ability. You then search the internet to see ho much a new home will cost to replicate what you currently have. The same applies to your car. There are many sites available where you can get this type of information. You then ascertain what teh real cost will be. Also search for salary scales in your field. That would give you a good starting point in terms of expectations and reality to what you you currentkly earning in CAD terms. I found for instance that housing is the most expensive whether you rent or buy. Analysis like that will quickly show you how the money left in CAD terms (what you have left now after housing, car etc expressed in CAd terms) to what you most likely to have left for living expenses. In my case it was roughly 50% less in CAD compared to my position now expressed in CAD terms. This makes a good starting point to see what you are most likely to cut back on or to see what you need to save up to make the immigration transition as smooth as possible for you and your family. Good luck I hope this helps!
I am also planning to relocate to Canada. I am only starting the process now. A good approach is to start with an analysis of your current salary and major expenses. I.e what you pay on your bond or rent, your car/s, your internet, your cable/digital tv. You then use the current exchange rate and see what you earn and what you spend in CAD terms based on your current earning ability. You then search the internet to see ho much a new home will cost to replicate what you currently have. The same applies to your car. There are many sites available where you can get this type of information. You then ascertain what teh real cost will be. Also search for salary scales in your field. That would give you a good starting point in terms of expectations and reality to what you you currentkly earning in CAD terms. I found for instance that housing is the most expensive whether you rent or buy. Analysis like that will quickly show you how the money left in CAD terms (what you have left now after housing, car etc expressed in CAd terms) to what you most likely to have left for living expenses. In my case it was roughly 50% less in CAD compared to my position now expressed in CAD terms. This makes a good starting point to see what you are most likely to cut back on or to see what you need to save up to make the immigration transition as smooth as possible for you and your family. Good luck I hope this helps!
Rauk said:
This list is now WAY out of date, with the cost of gasoline approaching $1.30, which would also reflect an increase if you are paying part or all of a natural gas heating bill which could be $60 to $150 a month. If Utilities means electricity and water I think that would be higher now too.
There are no costs listed for meat, cheese and fresh vegetables which have all gone up as well as a result of increasing fuel costs.
This is something my husband's relatives do not think of when they ask about living in Canada. All they see is the dollar signs of the salary they might make (even if it's minumum wage), which of course is much much more than they make now. They just do not see, or believe how high the cost of living is here. I wrote out a big long list of items and what we pay for them here and told him to SHOW it to them. IT IS NOT CHEAP TO LIVE IN CANADA.
H there ...
I have detailed everything about living cost in Canada on this post
http://www.immigrationexpertise.com/2008/06/preparing-your-landing-iv-money.html
Good Luck
Nabil
I have detailed everything about living cost in Canada on this post
http://www.immigrationexpertise.com/2008/06/preparing-your-landing-iv-money.html
Good Luck
Nabil