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Vet technician, 33, is scraping by in a small city Ontario house her parents paid for: ‘It’s a lot of guilt’ (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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“It feels like I’ve been working harder and harder and sliding backwards down the scale,” she says.

Making $50k in a small town and still "scraping by" is scary. Maybe I'm just old, but I'd hoped that kind of income would be enough for some kind of comfort.

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[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

They are referring to the people in this thread are debating about her spending habits without looking at the bigger picture.

We are the crabs.

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