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Hi,was wondering if anyone could give me an idea of the cost of living in the Mississauga and surrounding area.The jobs I'm hoping for will pay about $4000Cad per month.
Is this enough to live off ?Could I afford rent, bills, food, car, insurance, tax and be able to enjoy myself ??
I'm hoping it is but any advice would be gratefully received
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My ex lives in Mississauga. Her lawyer says that $4,000 tax free + a house and an insured car is barely enough to keep two people alive. I think that's stretching the truth but $4,000 - tax and house and car doesn't leave very much at all.

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A salary of $48k would just about let you into the property market where I am. Houses here probably cost about half what they do In Mississauga. I think you'll find it a struggle.

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It depends on your expectations mate. If you're single you can manage on that (just about), but I wouldn't fancy having dependants to look after on $48k.

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I could live on that quite easily out here in BC, and actually do, but judging from the responses you got the cost of living is way too high in Mississauga. Mind you, I don't have a huge mortgage to pay - just a little one because I'm ancient so bought my house years ago - but my son and D-i-L get just a bit more than that between them and rent an apartment in downtown Vancouver and get by quite nicely.

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Stats Canada say that in 2001 for Missisagua

Average earnings (worked full year, full time ($))

ALL 48,792
MALE 55,694
FEMALE 39,516

That was 5 years ago now. Cost of living and housing in particular has gone up since then.

We are all assuming that that is 4k gross a month, with deductions still to be taken. If it is, then a single person might be OK, although with little hope of purchasing there own place, but with dependents it would be no fun.

What is the job? Have you checked what a Canadian would expect to be paid? Its not unheard of for employers to lowball on salary if they think you are desperate enough to take it in order to gt over here, although the need for a LMO helps moderate that to some extent.

There are a few websites that might give some usefull info, they have been mentioned here before, but I can only think of monster / workopolis, and the HRDC labour market websites off the top of my head. There was another good one, just cant remember it now.

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The job Im going for is as a Truck mechanic at a freightliner dealer,and it looks like I might need a new plan because it not just me to support it my other half too!
Is there anywhere within travelling distance of Mississauga that cheaper to live???? :confused: :confused:

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The AVERAGE weekly wage in Canada, last year ( 2005 ) was $707 per WEEK, gross income. As a truck mechanic, working for a national dealership ( Freightliner ) you should be getting MORE than that per week. If the stated figure of $1000 a week was a gross figure, you are right on the national avearage for income AFTER paying the required personal taxes and deductions from your pay. So if hundreds of thousands of Canadians are living on that net income, you should be able to do so too.

Having said that, is there some reason why your partner cannot work ?

Most Canadian married couples both work, full time.

Jim Bunting Toronto.

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You can't really go by national averages. Income and cost of living vary enormously. The national average income is probably well below the local average for the GTA. On the cost of living side, there is no doubt that it is more expensive to live in the GTA than in most other parts of Canada. That is why the military's PLD is so high there.

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Agreed> But the guy doesn't have to live in Mississauga to work there. How about driving in from Milton, Guelph, Acton, Georgetown, or Burlington, Hamilton? All have lower housing prices and lower rents. Lots of Canadians do just that every day.

Jim B Toronto.

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You might want to try this

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/prof...dex.cfm?Lang=E

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Interesting to see that Mississauga's average income is pretty much on the average at $48,792 (that's 2001 though). However, cost of living is a more important issue.

I will refer back to the PLD (Post Living Differential). This a a mechanism the military uses to reflect differences in the cost of living across Canada and to help ensure that a member's purchasing power is the same wherever they are posted. Mississauga's average income in 2001 was about the same as Calgary's and about 5 grand more than Kingston or London. The current PLDs for those places are:

Calgary $21/month
Kingston $16
London $46
Mississauga/Halton Region $1,400

I think the message is that your money doesn't go as far in the GTA.

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I don't believe this to be the case. I don't know any couples locally where both work except those where the woman is nominally an employee of the man's company for tax purposes. I think it's an expectation of Canadian society that a man be able to support his partner(s).

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Thanks for the info people it s defiantly appreciated,think I I'll have to look at the possibility of the other half getting a job(not sure how that will work as there's only me applying for a work permit) and try to get a higher monthly pay. :eek: :eek: :eek: :confused:

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48k pa for a fully qualified truch mechanic seems a bit on the low side to me FWIW. If you are getting time charged out to customers at $70 per hour, I would think after overhead etc you would be getting mid to high 20s per hour..closer to 55 to 60k per year.

There is a chance that the HRDC labour market website has mechanics jobs and the rates historically offered on it.