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Old 07-20-2007, 11:04 AM   #122
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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor View Post
A family CANNOT live on a 50k income in Calgary if they are just starting off. Most people have tens of thousands in student loans that need to be paid off then you have no less than a 1000 a month mortgage payemnt, if they can get one, car payments and everything else. The only way a family can get by on 50k a year is if they bought a house 5-10 years ago.
Well, you could... but you'd be renting, some of your kids would be sharing bedrooms, and there wouldn't be any family vacations outside Alberta. It would be a pretty lean lifestyle in many ways... very lean.
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