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So you're saying living on half of one salary is functional these days? Most folks I know can't survive on two full salaries.
How much is one salary, to you?
Median income for my Canadian province is $91,000 per year. So living on $45,500 per year Canadian which would be about $1000 dollars less than the statistics from the employment and social development Canada website below for 3 persons (I'm including the two kids)
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/foreign-workers/caregiver/financial-ability.html
I live in on of the richest Canadian provinces and you still probably couldn't pull it off.
I'm pulling my median salary from here.
https://www03.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/hmip-pimh/en/TableMapChart/TableMatchingCriteria?GeographyType=Country&GeographyId=1&CategoryLevel1=Population%2C+Households+and+Housing+Stock&CategoryLevel2=Household+Income&ColumnField=HouseholdIncomeRange&RowField=Province&SearchTags%5B0%5D.Key=Households&SearchTags%5B0%5D.Value=Number&SearchTags%5B1%5D.Key=Statistics&SearchTags%5B1%5D.Value=AverageAndMedian
any other questions?
Yeah one question. I said I was a bartender and waiter. I made about 20 maybe 30 grand gross probably a year with tips. It was a while ago, granted, but the cost of everything increased quite disproportionately to wages since then anyway and you seem like you're trying real hard to prove something.
So my questions is, what the fuck are you on about?
Were you raising kids? You're making this super passive aggressive comment about the wife getting alimony and shit in a relationship where she's the main caregiver for the kids. The whole thing comes across as super sexist. So what I'm "on about" is not only is your comment super sour and sad sounding, its also way out of whack with economic realities on the ground. So what are YOU on about is what I'm trying to figure out?
Why does it come across as sexist? Which part is untrue? Tell me about the "economic realities on the ground", and the experience you've had that makes you an expert in this field.