Gotta be one of the most fucked up news articles I have seen recently. If this doesn’t illustrate how bad things are here I don’t know what does.

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      He lives with parents and only pays for utilities, no rent, so he spends $1200 a month on flights instead of $2000 or $2500 on rent.

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        $1200 a month on flights

        I cannot believe he pays $300 for a week of flights.

        Also, if that’s his transit costs, he must live AT the airport or can teleport there an hour or so ahead of his flight to get through security and make it to his gate.

        Why isn’t travel to and from YYC and YVR and waiting at the gates part of his listed commute?

        The math seems weird.

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          @corsicanguppy @uzi student transit pass would make sense. And he must have lounge access, so free breakfast, lunch or dinner. A place that’s quite to study while you wait for your flight, free wifi, I mean really starts to look like a brilliant idea if you’re staying rent free at home.

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          I think he only has two days of classes. Like this entire thing is stupid and the news is basically making it sound like he’s a full time student. It’s basically propaganda

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          Not sure his airline now, but for a while Swoop had 39-49 dollar flights between those airports. on sale days I even got a Swoop flight from Toronto to Abbotsford for $15 ticket price, unfortunately Toronto charges $50 airport improvement fee on top of ticket

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      Yeah that’s the only way I could see this working.

      I’m surprised he makes it to class on time, my flights are rarely on time when I fly anymore.

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      Yeah, but calgary is way Cheaper than Vancouver even if he had to pay rent.

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    Or you could just go to university in Calgary or somewhere more affordable?

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      He only needed one more year to get his degree

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    • spending half your day commuting
    • pretending living at home and having your own apartment are comparable
    • taking a very light course load

    …priceless