| I'm not sure you intended to come across as condescending but it does read this way. "The major sense I get from Canadians whenever I arrive back is an enormous sense of financial illiteracy. Like they just don't know or care about how badly they get ripped off all the time on so many things and will never care enough to do anything meaningful about it." First, that isn't what financial illiteracy means. Next, It is very easy to write things like this but what are your proposals? you seem to feel they are being "ripped off", speak down upon them for not doing anything, but fail to offer any solutions.. very helpful? Are they really being ripped off? I lived in the US for ~8 years and used T-Mobile. i dont find the T-Moble price to be too far off my freedom monthly rates. we LOVE to complain about the prices differences, but never actually show what they really are. it is hard to provide coverage in a massive country with low population. California has more people vs Canada. |
I pay Sprint (now T-Mobile) $20 total for two unlimited lines. Yes, that includes all taxes and fees.
Admittedly, I got a fantastic deal (only available for two weeks) for one of the two lines, got the other line as a free promotion also only briefly available, and then got the taxes/fees incorporated into the total when the account moved over to T-Mobile. But if I didn't have those deals, I'd pay $25 (after a group discount that's trivial to get) to Visible for an unlimited line on the Verizon network, or Mint Mobile's[1] $30/month for unlimited plan, or $20/month for 10GB plan (which might as well be unlimited for me, and probably 95% of others). My understanding is that nothing in Canada comes close to these rates.
[1] Canadian Ryan Reynolds as spokesman and part owner