Is that a thing? I mean, it varies greatly depending on where you live but Canada isn't exactly a cheap place to live. Cost of living is fairly high, plus we're taxed out the ***. I don't know how most people in Toronto do it. Even making $100,000 wouldn't be enough to live comfortably there if you bought your own home, unless you want a long commute from hell into work every day. Vancouver is even worse. At least Vancouver is beautiful though. I avoid Toronto unless absolutely necessary. But, I'm just a small town country boy so I'm biased.
My gf, when she moved to Vancouver and I moved to Seattle, we did the travel thing to see each other and she was renting at the time. I bought an apartment which wasn't too expensive, about on par for the most part with what I had in Bellevue, so it "felt" normal but she thought it'd be much cheaper in Canada for some reason and I was like, how?
Cost of living in Vancouver is ridiculous, I don't know how the locals here will plan to buy homes when they're starting families. I am lucky that I have a career that pays me very well, otherwise, I wouldn't be in what is essentially my dream home right now. We'd be looking at buying further out of the city, there was a point where we almost looked at her maybe looking at jobs in Seattle because up until June last year, I still had my apartment in Bellevue that I was doing an Air BnB at and would have just cleaned up and moved back there until we could find careers back in Pittsburgh or at least in the East Coast somewhere.
But yeah, Vancouver is beautiful when you can drown out the noise, which we do. She works near Kitsilano (sp?), which is this hipster-ish kind of place, pricey, and we go hiking and camping a lot up and near Whistler and etc.
It's been a while now, I sometimes catch myself talking like a local.