I have seen a general trend and I may be absolutely wrong here
There is no way for a single income household (guy like me) to be very comfortable anywhere in Ontario.. And soon the whole Canada probably.
Especially because right now I am making sub65k pretax. If I had the income of a wife for example, I'd be very comfortable right now.. Savings would not have happened though.
At first I tried to stay away from the sad stories and focused on the good ones. But I came to the realization that the good stories, while true and many, pale in comparison to the number of terrible middle class stories.. And this is sad.
Like I don't know any regular job that pays over 80-90k which is not in the field of consulting, IT or pro level finance.
For folks like me, the general options left are immigration consultant or realtor or mortgage broker. I despise these professions and I hate how scummy and smirky the people working in these fields are, especially realtor but they are the ones making bank here and have the easiest access to for general public
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BTW to all the IT folks here, maybe yall should start a company that digitises and automates the role of realtors. In 2023, these Middle men are absolutely not needed and cost a lot of money for not that much value. I heard about somebody selling their house using some online brokerage and they saved like 30k and were over the moon about the whole experience, especially not having to deal with a realtor.