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Originally Posted by Huggles
https://kelowna.craigslist.org/apa/d...739040964.html
$1550 for a 300 sqft studio... making like $30 an hour, you'll take home about $1800 every 2 weeks... after phone ($100), gas (at least $200 a month to get to work, $10 a day commute), insurance($100 a month on a 1993 Acura Integra), internet ($50 a month)... you're looking at $2000 in overhead before food, entertainment, gym, savings... So that $1600 you have left over, probably like $400 for food, $50 gym, $150 for entertainment... so then you're down to $1000 a month extra for every other expense... real thin livin' in Canada even working full time at $30 an hour as a single person...
Now imagine minimum wage... you'll be renting a room for $900-$1000 a month and that will be 50% of your income right there... unless you share a room with a literal roommate that sleeps in the same room as you, but you can at least get a bed for $500 a month...
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You can ignore the gym expense as the Apartment complex has a gym. It also sounds like it has plenty of amenities so you can cut your entertainment expenses by quite a lot. It has high speed internet available in the common area so if you are close enough to the router you have free internet. Your food budget can be cut by a lot if you use the community gardens and make your food from scratch. $400 is a pretty high budget for a single person for food. Your phone cost is high, there are plans available in the area for as low as $21/month.
https://www.whistleout.ca/CellPhones...lumbia/Kelowna
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Cambridge House Amenities:
- 9,600 sq. ft. of outdoor common area featuring central landscaped courtyard with lounging area, BBQ area, garden, relaxing and socializing areas
- 4,700 sqft of indoor social lounge with a grande fireplace, sofas, chairs, TV, foosball tables, ping pong tables and gym
- Community gardens
- Bicycle lockers
- High speed internet and TV in common area
- Multiple security cameras
- Blockwatch
At almost 15,000 sqft enjoy all that it has to offer at your doorstep, go to the gym, have a bbq, relax in the common area or study in the landscaped courtyard. Make use of your green thumb and grow something in the community garden or just hang out after a long day in the social lounge by the fireplace, watch some TV, play foosball and table tennis.
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That's sounds like a pretty nice apartment complex, but that rent might be too high for budget. Still you have money left over which is way more than some people can say.
You can also find much bigger, much cheaper apartments in the area:
How about this one:
https://kelowna.craigslist.org/apa/d...737099387.html
$800 for a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment just minutes away from downtown West Kelowna.
Or this:
https://kelowna.craigslist.org/apa/d...724915497.html
Fully furnished 2 br apartment in Kelowna for $1000/month.
Those took me seconds to find and are both within the budget for a salary of 60,000/year, which is what you are talking about.
Oh my god, you have to live within a budget? How fucking horrible is that?
Minimum wage (at least here in the U.S. was never meant to support a person fully. It was created predominantly for 16 year olds, with no experience, in their first job. Grocery clerks, bagboys, fast food counter people were never meant as career jobs.
If you have a year or more of work experience, and you are still only making minimum wage, you are doing something wrong.