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Millennials set to face most economic pain in months ahead, RBC says. Here’s why - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
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Older millennials, adults aged 35 to 44, had debt-to-disposable income ratios around 250 per cent in 2019, while Freestone noted that metric was roughly 150 per cent for the same age group in 1999.

Can confirm we're sitting around 250% but this is after exercising significant restraint to not take on as much mortgage as the banks would have given us. Everyone I know who bought over the last couple of years went all out and I can't imagine them being any lower than 300-350%.

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[–] Vlyn -1 points 1 year ago

Ah, from Google (and the MSRP), now it's $20k on their site directly. See: https://blog.clutch.ca/posts/6-cheapest-new-cars-in-canada

There are cheaper options actually. My Kia Rio cost 14k€ (and that was with a deal) back in 2015. So it's not that far off I guess. But that was actually the new price, with navigation, camera for driving backwards and so on with 7 years warranty on top.

Prices suck of course, but on the low end they are still affordable. Mid-tier is probably a lot of leasing (as you'd have to spend a big chunk of life savings on a direct buy) and high tier is only for rich assholes (or company cars).