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Originally Posted by peter12

I completely understand the concern over cost of living. I live in Vancouver on two high salaries, and even then it feels like a bit limiting sometimes. Not complaining, I am super privileged, but it gives me a sense of how unimaginably hard it would be to exist in Vancouver or Toronto on an "average" salary.

Unfortunately, wages are not a really good salve to this problem. We have limited our housing and all other kinds of public goods and infrastructure to such a degree of scarcity that basically everything is a race to the bottom.

Ummm, yep.