“It feels like I’ve been working harder and harder and sliding backwards down the scale,” she says.

Making $50k in a small town and still “scraping by” is scary. Maybe I’m just old, but I’d hoped that kind of income would be enough for some kind of comfort.

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    Beanfield is only available to some condominium users in major downtown cities. It is not an available option to most Canadians, especially the vet tech in this article.

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      It is not an available option to most Canadians, especially the vet tech in this article.

      It’s a shame that the article doesn’t specify which town, but it does say University town.

      If I were to guess, especially since she’s a vet tech, is that she lives in Guelph or Windsor. Other vet universities in Ontario are in much larger cities.

      If that’s the case, she has quite a few of options for phone and internet.

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      Beanfield may not be available everywhere, but Teksavvy has similar plans.

      Teksavvy is available nearly everywhere and I know they have similar plans because I was a customer.

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        Definitely not the case. They serve suburbs and cities. I live semi rurally and they are not a possible option.

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          She lives in a college town. The vast majority of people in Canada live in urban centers. So, for most single people in Canada, spending less than $200/mo in Internet+phone is trivially simple.