When I Was Your Age...

posted August 25th, 2016 at 11:43 PM

Not that long ago (this is not intended to be a diss in any way). A room was $200, minimum wage was $8.00, smokes were $5, gas was 80 cents, a landline was $30 and the only number that's stayed the same was the price of weed. Back then it seemed easier to enjoy my free time and occasional unemployment, now I just work for the man. Spare us the comments from the nearly-retired, this is about the cost of living for young people post olympics vs post expo.

4 Comments

Anonymous

Aug 26, 2016 at 1:58am

I remember the lawyer I used to work for saying that people on welfare get enough money because they can rent a room for $100/month. I wish! $600 seems pretty average, and I've seen plenty of roommate ads where the rent was $800 or more each.

What the hell

Aug 26, 2016 at 11:15am

Where did you live that minimum wage was $8 AND gas was $0.80 at the same time?

Not in Vancity

@What the hell

Aug 26, 2016 at 1:36pm

Min. wage was $8 in 2001, how much was gas?
Gas prices ranged from $0.63-$0.81, tho mostly substantially lower than $0.81, so says the Data I found.

Gas Prices: http://climate.uvic.ca/people/ewiebe/gasoline_prices.php
Hourly Min. Wage:
http://srv116.services.gc.ca/dimt-wid/sm-mw/rpt2.aspx

Life is great in Canada, if you're a rich immigrant or someone in a protected profession that can inflate its rates at will, like pharmacy, law, medicine, etc. Everyone else, well, natives have never mattered, have they?