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by JamesBarney 2531 days ago
Maybe Toronto is way more expensive than Houston, but a cheese burger from McDonalds is $1 and 300 calories.

Pre-made Tasty Bites are like 2.40 and you can throwthem on a bed of rice and eat 3 meals for $10 a day.

And if you cook yourself and eat mostly vegetarian or cheap meats you can easily get your per meal costs into the $2 range.

https://www.budgetbytes.com/

I know the rent is more expensive, in Houston you can easily get a ~800 sq ft 1 br 8 minutes from downtown in a nice neighborhood for $850. If you live in a 2 br with roommates or an efficiency you can get that down to $400-$500.
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ska 2531 days ago
> I know the rent is more expensive

Yes, the roughly equivalent 1br in Toronto is going to be about $2500 these days.

Also keep in mind Texas has no sales tax, Ontario does. And we are talking CDN not USD (hard to directly compare some things). It's in general a bit more expensive in Toronto, across the board (except health care, obviously).

Houston is one of the cheapest "proper" metros in USA and Canada.

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JamesBarney 2531 days ago
I like the quotes around proper .

Yeah we're proper in the sense we have a good food/cocktail/bar scene, and a great classical music/art scene.

But we have no public transportation and the density doesn't even get close to other metros.

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ABCLAW 2531 days ago
>Maybe Toronto is way more expensive than Houston

It is.

>~800 sq ft 1 br 8 minutes from downtown in a nice neighborhood for $850

Lol.

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