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Originally Posted by barry12345
In my opinion you do not want to be down and out in this economy in Canada. To me it would seem extremely difficult to really get going again. Housing and apartment rental costs have really gotten out of hand currently. Food prices have really taken off as well. For a small family rent and food only can be a thousand a week alone. In a few Major Canadian cities.
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I think this is a lot of it. If you make enough mistakes and don’t have family to back you up, you can wind up in a place hard to crawl back up from. Not saying it’s OK or admirable to give up, but I think when people’s self respect goes down far enough they lose the spirit to try to recover.