“It feels like I’ve been working harder and harder and sliding backwards down the scale,” she says.
Making $50k in a small town and still “scraping by” is scary. Maybe I’m just old, but I’d hoped that kind of income would be enough for some kind of comfort.
Definitely not the case. They serve suburbs and cities. I live semi rurally and they are not a possible option.
She lives in a college town. The vast majority of people in Canada live in urban centers. So, for most single people in Canada, spending less than $200/mo in Internet+phone is trivially simple.