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What's the minimum income to live comfortably in your city?
Ok, I'm not talking about living in a Park Avenue Penthouse, but just to rent an apartment with no rodent roommates with a grocery store, a pub and a cafe within walking distance.
Basically, if someone moved to your city, didn't want to have a roommate, rented a one bedroom, got basic cable, high-speed internet, a blackberry for their home phone, a transit pass, bought groceries and had some money to go to a pub and the movies and take the odd vacation, how much would it cost?
For Ottawa, my estimate is:
$1000/mo rent
$300/mo food
$200/mo utilities
$120/mo transport (transit pass, bike repairs, the odd car rental)
$100 clothing
$300 enterainment
$450 fed/Provincial taxes/sales taxes
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$2570/mo or about $31,000 a year.
How does it compare with you cities?
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