The dream of making it in Canada is turning into a battle for survival for many immigrants due to the high cost of living and rental shortages.
    • Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Yes, it’s as if the opposite of immigrate is, oh I don’t know, emigrate? I’m not sure if the writing is bad or if they assume their readers are too dumb and would miss the meaning

    • Sonori@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      11 months ago

      To be fair, from my understanding it’s is specifically talking about a slight increase in the rate people who immigrated to Canada are leaving, and not emigration in general, which is also slightly up from last year.

  • GingaNinga@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    ya the cost of living is insane, Is anyone keeping up these days? I keep referencing that south park episode where Randy is like “hey south park kind of sucks now you guys wanna bail?” Just not sure where I’d go.

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The cost of living has always been “good” in canada, but most of that was affordable rent and mortages. During the real estate craze people from all over the world freely purchased all sorts of land in Canada, even to this day.

      Now we have this huge bubble of investors and private equity firms trying to make good on these inflated investments, hoping they can pass the buck to the tax payer while people are barely surviving. Rent has doubled in the main cities and nobody is getting a 20-30% raise.