Alan2005

Yeah, but you'd have to live in Moncton.

Novocastrian

Is it really worse than Squamish though?

scrubbedexpat091

I like the style of those homes. Nice prices as well. Certainly something I'd go for.

If it wasn't the disability issue we would be open to moving, but the risk is too great and seems the further east one goes the less help there is.

BC allows those with disabilities to work and earn a certain amount before clawing back payments. (the exemption amount varies depending on various factors.)

It's too bad it's not federal so we had more freedom to move.

Seems NB doesn't have a disability program and you have to be unemployed and sounds like they just put disabled onto welfare.

I really like those houses though, thanks for the links. I like looking at houses for fun.

FAQ - Persons with Disabilities - Social Development

scrubbedexpat091

This is what you can get in Squamish.

This one is 77,000 a mobile home in a park so you don't own the land, just the mobile home, built in 1971 so really old. No inside pictures so probably a dump.

# 91 40157 GOVERNMENT RD, Squamish, British Columbia V8B0K8 - V1025285 | Realtor.ca

Another mobile home, don't own the land though. 130,000 but this one has been renovated, new insulation, roof etc. Built in 1970.

# 72 40157 GOVERNMENT RD, Squamish, British Columbia V0N1T0 - V1097600 | Realtor.ca

Still a mobile home, but this one you own the land. Cheapest place currently where you own the land. 425,000

33 BRACKEN PARK WY, Squamish, British Columbia V0N1T0 - V1094448 | Realtor.ca

This is the lowest priced house, a rancher, 479,000

1009 EDGEWATER CR, Squamish, British Columbia V0N3G0 - V1098260 | Realtor.ca

Condo wise this is what you get.

179,000 1 bed 1 bath, 22 years old, 572 sq feet, 160 month strata fee.

# D208 40160 WILLOW CR, Squamish, British Columbia V8B0M2 - V1090397 | Realtor.ca

Another 1 bed 1 bath in the same building above, a bit larger at 585 sq feet, and 180 month strata fee, 185,000

# A308 40100 WILLOW CR, Squamish, British Columbia V8B0L8 - V1066887 | Realtor.ca

2 bed 2 bath in the same building as above, 860 sq feet, 240 strata fee.

# D202 40160 WILLOW CR, Squamish, British Columbia V8B0M2 - V1094317 | Realtor.ca

1 bed, 1 bath, 543sq feet, 218/month strata fee.

# 411 37841 CLEVELAND AV, Squamish, British Columbia V8B0S8 - V1095179 | Realtor.ca

That sums up the Squamish market.

BristolUK

I recall reading something in the paper that NB now does that for social assistance recipients.

Yes. Health is one of those things that, to me, should be universal in Canada. At the very least a minimum standard that all provinces should meet.

NB is about the worst for this sort of thing. I believe NS is far more enlightened. NB is getting better, bit by bit, and mental health services are reportedly much better than they were.

My stepson has several issues that hold him back work-wise but the only support available - training, job placements, income etc - seems to relate to physical disability only.

BristolUK

Or somewhere else that's not Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal.

BristolUK

A few years ago we put our rental on the market with a view to making a staged move to Nova Scotia. Our circumstances changed and we stayed put but we could have replicated our situation exactly.

But there are many similar sized places in Canada - even in Ontario - where we could feasibly live on our resources.

scrubbedexpat091

I am sure in small town BC it's possible to find low housing, and by small town I mean small, I am in what I consider a small town, but it's too close to Vancouver to benefit from being small, and too close to Whistler as well, so we get a double hit here because we are smack dab in the middle of 2 of the most expensive places in BC.

There are some pretty reasonable places I have found on parts of the Island, not as cheap as your posts but cheaper then anything around here, but then you have to deal with BC Ferries to get to the mainland and they are not cheap so that has to be taken into account.

Seems in BC if there are jobs, housing is high.

Where there are no jobs, housing lower but then no jobs so doesn't matter.

Probably have to go pretty far up north as well, I haven't found anything in the lower mainland anywhere in what would be our price range for a house.

We could potentially buy a mobile home, but why spend 70K+ to basically rent, you don't own the land, you have to pay anywhere from 300-600 a month on top of the mortgage to rent the land.

BC really does mean bring cash... I do have to say though, BC likely has the best disability support system in place, and they don't discriminate against mental health disabilities when it comes to it, they consider it just as much a disability as anything physical.

I can't complain about the support we get in BC, it's low if your 100% can't work at all, and I do think it needs to be raised for those folks since it's a bit too low to live on exclusively.

Lychee

How about places like Quesnel, Williams Lake, 100 Mile House? Heck, even Kamloops has to be cheaper than Squamish, but not nearly as small town. Another place I love, but it's perhaps too isolating, is Prince Rupert. I can't comprehend how cheap it is there, but it's an extraordinary place.

scrubbedexpat091

The small towns like Williams Lake, and Quesnel and sort, I just think finding a suitable job would be difficult. I also don't want to go any smaller then Squamish, 17,000 people, I go bonkers here from boredom, any smaller and I don't know how I'd deal with it...

Kamloops or Kelowna wouldn't be too bad, but they are not much cheaper from what I can tell rent wise.

Looking online rents appear to be on par with Squamish in Kamloops and Kelowna, although there is more to choose from, but price wise the same from what I can see.


I just don't think there is any reasonable sized city in BC that has low housing costs anymore, the places with low housing costs are so small and lack employment which is why they are so cheap I suppose.

The mortgage guy at my GF's work ran our income and played with numbers, he think we could if we could save 10,000 probably be able to get a loan in the 90 to 100,000 range, which of course you won't find in a whole lot of places.

I have no interest in buying a condo, rather rent then pay mortgage + strata fees and have to deal with all the BS of a strata, and I don't think condos are wise investment at least around here.

magnumpi

Feb 2014 \/

Statistics Canada has just released its latest report on the salaries that Canadians are earning. And it turns out that we're taking home a little more than we were a year earlier. The average wage for Canadian employees is currently $928 per week – or just about $48,250 a year

scrubbedexpat091

I wouldn't mind that salary...

I don't even make that in 2 weeks. Usually just around the 700 mark if there were no holidays.

I don't know anyone in real who makes that much, where the heck are these sorts of jobs?

magnumpi

It's an average only not a base line wage

scrubbedexpat091

Yes I know, however making 40k is just something I can wrap my head around for 1 person working, now 2 its not hard, but for 1 person to make that much, no clue how those jobs are found.