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Living Just Enough For The City

Posted by / March 9, 2006

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"Torontonians can comfort themselves with the fact that prices in many categories have come down, including insurance, new cars and clothing, Holt said."

This article intrigues me. Are we just a bunch of broke-ass whiners or is Toronto really a tough place to make a decent living?

For me personally, after rent, car payments, school loans, groceries and insurance, there isn't a lot left over. And this is coming from a single dude with no dependents. But the headline really irks me: Toronto's living costs rising, but reasonable. Translation: shut up and deal. Almost as if concerns around career mobility, "cost of living" wage increases, higher tuition fees and rising debt are totally dismissable.

For a lot of Toronto residents, "Living Just Enough For The City" is more than just a cool Stevie Wonder lyric.

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jackatM2 / March 9, 2006 at 04:13 pm
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if we are so poor, why are there so many Starbucks and LCBO stores?
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Tanja / March 9, 2006 at 04:37 pm
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Why Starbuck's? 'Cause there are too many corporate coffee junkies drinking bad brew.

I don't think anyone is going to be arrogant enough to make a sweeping generalization that Starbuck's is successful because struggling youth are Grande drinkers, skipping out on rent for extra whip.
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jackatM2 / March 9, 2006 at 04:44 pm
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true, but incidentally, a lot these regular starbucks patrons also complain about not enough daycare subsidies from the government.
relative to a lot of major north american metropolitan cities(fyi our population is close to that of boston, washington dc, detroit, san fran), the cost of living here is quite low. Even for university tuition, one can be paying close to USD $30 k for a year in the US. And how much are we paying here at U of T?
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Meow Mix / March 9, 2006 at 05:05 pm
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I could be mistaken, but I think Toronto is rated the 5th largest city in North America. Mexico city, New York, LA, Chicago, Toronto. Places like San Fran are small time in comparison.

And isn't Detroit a ghost town?
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Nonny / March 11, 2006 at 10:42 am
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Toronto's not expensive for a city of it's size and cultural offerings . Places more expensive than Toronto:((http://www.citymayors.com/features/cost_survey.html)

1 Tokyo, Japan
2 Osaka, Japan
3 London, United Kingdom
4 Moscow, Russia
5 Seoul, South Korea
6 Geneva, Switzerland
7 Zurich, Switzerland
8 Copenhagen, Denmark
9 Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10 Oslo, Norway
11 Milan, Italy
12 Paris, France
13 New York City, United States
13 Dublin, Ireland
15 St. Petersburg, Russia
16 Vienna, Austria
17 Rome, Italy
18 Stockholm, Sweden
19 Beijing, China
20 Sydney, Australia
20 Helsinki, Finland
22 Douala, Cameroon
22 Istanbul, Turkey
24 Amsterdam, Netherlands
24 Budapest, Hungary
26 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
27 Warsaw, Poland
28 Prague, Czech Republic
29 Taipei, Taiwan
30 Shanghai, China
31 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
32 Düsseldorf, Germany
33 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
34 Singapore, Singapore
34 Frankfurt, Germany
36 Dakar, Senegal
37 Munich, Germany
38 Berlin, Germany
39 Tel Aviv, Israel
40 Glasgow, United Kingdom
41 Athens, Greece
41 Brussels, Belgium
43 Barcelona, Spain
44 Los Angeles, United States
45 White Plains, United States
46 Madrid, Spain
47 Birmingham, United Kingdom
48 Zagreb, Croatia
49 Hamburg, Germany
50 Hanoi, Vietnam
50 San Francisco, United States
52 Chicago, United States
52 Beirut, Lebanon
54 Riga, Latvia
54 Kiev, Ukraine
56 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
57 Miami, United States
58 Algiers, Algeria
59 Casablanca, Morocco
60 Tallin, Estonia
61 Lyon, France
61 Honolulu, United States
63 Shenzhen, China
64 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
65 Guangzhou, China
66 Lisbon, Portugal
67 Amman, Jordan
68 Melbourne, Australia
69 Auckland, New Zealand
70 Houston, United States
71 Jakarta, Indonesia
72 Kuwait City, Kuwait
73 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
74 San Juan, Puerto Rico
75 Almaty, Kazakhstan
76 Wellington, New Zealand
76 Ljubljana, Slovenia
78 Washington, D.C., United States
79 Boston, United States
80 Morristown, United States
81 Sofia, Bulgaria
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x_the_x / March 13, 2006 at 09:08 pm
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I don't think anyone is going to be arrogant enough to make a sweeping generalization that Starbuck's [sic] is successful because there are too many corporate coffee junkies drinking bad brew.
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