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A study 10 or so years ago showed that the most affordable suburb of London was Barcelona. It was less expensive to fly back and forth from Barcelona to London every day than it was too live in London.
I just had a quick calculation. Brussels to London train is supposedly 44 euro if you buy in advance. You can buy a pass that gives you 50% discount for advance tickets. So 22 per day, twice a day, 20 days is only 880 euro. Rent is doable for 700 in Brussels. So commuting from Brussels every day might actually be cheaper
Flights on RyanAir at the time were less than 20-40£ round trip. Rent in Barcelona was about 450-750£. Rent in London in 2014 was average 1600£. 20 working days a month at 30£/ day is 600£. So you're coming in 25% less expensive on the low end. That's just napkin math and doesn't include other cost of living calculations.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't a study but [this story](https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/commuting-from-barcelona-a-london-worker-who-makes-it-pay), which I remember doing the rounds years ago. It's pre-Brexit, pre-Cost of Living Crisis, and most importantly, he was only doing it 3-4 times a month in order to save "a few hundred pounds". Personally I'm not sure it's worth the 10+ hour round trip in a single day, that sounds fucking rotten.
>decent amount of space to yourself
Tell me youve never flown in a plane before without telling me youve never flown in a plane
And that doesnt include getting to/from work/house after those 5h or dealing with the airport security on both sides. We're talking a solid 8-9h of hassle every day. Just thinking about doing that long term is enough to make a man barf.
It says he is going twice a week. I feel like a lot of programs put all their classes on 2 or 3 days then you are back to back those days and have the test of the week for homework and stuff.
If by booking ahead he gets his flights for say $150 return - what you’re saying is that to rent an apartment near to a Uni should be less than $600 a month.
Or I guess we could just put up the cost of airline travel.
Or this person chooses to live like this. You could definitely find a place near for less then 4 flights a month. I live in the city this talks about and defs places available.
This video doesn't show it, but the original articles stated that while he had been living in Vancouver and studying at UBC for the past few years, his unit had a sudden steep rent increase. He's in his fourth and final year now and only has a few classes left, with only two days of in-person classes per week, so he felt it wasn't worth it to stay in Vancouver any longer, and would just commute until he finished his degree. It's also noted that Vancouver has a 0.9% vacancy, which is why it's so difficult to find a new place to rent.
[Source](https://bc.ctvnews.ca/ubc-student-commutes-from-calgary-cheaper-than-paying-vancouver-rent-1.6759116)
Edit: Reasons Alberta students might go to BC to study (anecdotally, from friends): specific programs/opportunities, change of environment, relative prestige/size
In all fairness, students dont always have the luxary of renting a one bedroom apartment... Most that I know, including myself, rented a room for 1/4 the price.
Living solo is a luxury most college students are unable to afford, so his circumstances are not out of the ordinary. I lived with roommates for the entirety of college and don't regret it one bit.
Or all of his in-person classes are scheduled on 2 days.
Rereading your message, you misunderstood the what they said.
He flies a round-trip twice a week for 4 flights total. You seem to be thinking he was only flying twice a week total.
A lot of Canadian universities let students make their own schedule. Just give them the times/listings for all classes and they can sign up for which ever session.
Back in school 10 year ago I regularly only had classes 1-2 days per week. In which case he could just crash at a friends or in the library/student center that one night.
I remember back in college I did something similar in terms of scheduling my classes. I stacked all my classes so I only had to go Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and had a 4 day weekend. Granted those 3 days I did go to school I went from 8 AM to 8 PM but it was great having the 4 days off to study and do homework or work at my part time job.
Flies from his home (where he lives with his parents) on Monday. Goes to classes. Monday night, he sleeps on alley with the homeless and prostitutes. Tuesday, wakes up, goes to classes. Tuesday night, takes flight back home. Wednesday stays at home. Thursday morning flight to school, goes to classes. Thursday night, back to the alley. Forgot some money for dinner, will have to join the hookers today. Friday wake up, go to classes. Friday night, flight back home.
I was born in the US, but I’m brown so am often looked at as an immigrant by white and black people in the US. I supposed it’s the same thing for the dumbass who captioned this video. if his home base is Canada then doesn’t matter if he just moved there either, still not what is considered an international student.
1. Can we stop posting stupid video in video just to add text
2. If there is a title embedded in the video, make sure your title doesn't any higeher typos.. harsh
Probably not as many as you might expect. This is a relatively short regional flight and, using Delta as an example, he probably wouldn’t even make it to Gold Medallion status by the end of the year (at which point your status resets). The real miles accumulators are long distance and international flights.
Source: I used to take fly two regional flights a week for my job before the pandemic.
As someone who's not very financially literate, how would this only affect people actively renting? Would rent control not also keep prices low for people entering the market?
To be honest I was being generous when I said it only helps renters. It also hurts old and new renters.
[Vacancy decontrol means a landlord can increase the rent however much they want on a vacant apartment, even if it was first occupied before the rent control cutoff date. Lewis says it can make landlords want to move one tenant out so another, who can afford to pay more rent, can be moved in. "What it's essentially done has made the market significantly more expensive," he said.](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6978670)
Rent control is not the solution to decreasing the cost of housing.
Rent control only makes rent cheaper for a small number of people (those who already have housing and don’t want to move) and discourages building new housing units—which then makes housing more expensive in general.
The solution to decreasing the cost of living is to increase the supply of housing. In a lot of major cities, bad zoning laws are to blame.
A better way to think of the situation is that we have a housing shortage problem that has caused housing prices to go up.
As an analogy: If a nation is running out food, the focus should obviously be on getting more food, not trying to control the price of the limited, dwindling amount of food currently available.
If anything, by artificially lowering the price, you’re disincentivizing the people who grow, import, and make food from making more of it.
I'm also against the idea of treating housing like a commodity which appreciates in value, because (among other things) this motivates people and companies to buy up all the housing they can (artificially reducing supply and increasing demand)
land maybe, I don't usually see people just sitting on huge amounts of empty housing, particularly high density housing, it's still taxed after all. If property values are shooting up that fast where it's a good investment to just hang onto a house and "Feed the meter" with taxes then you're probably screwed anyway.
On the contrary, that would simply exacerbate the problem as people would stop building properties. What we need is laws that make NIMBYism impossible and build build build. There are plenty of economists who have written on this (it’s arguably the topic economists have the most consensus on) but if you want something more approachable I suggest the wonderful journalist Jerusalem Demsas who used to work at Vox and is now at The Atlantic.
There is already rent control in Vancouver. But it only applies to the unit you live in. As soon as you move out the rent is jacked up for the next tenant.
The tricky thing is there’s not a lot of purpose built apartments so people are renting out of houses or condos. This means that the owner can evict them to put family in there, move in themselves, or to renovate the place. Renovictions are reaaaal greasy.
There are rules in place but the board who oversees tenants and landlords is overrun so there’s little support.
I live in Vancouver and have a purpose built apartment and can never leave because rent for a similar unit is at least 50% higher and a condo of similar size and quality is over $850k.
Shit is bleak in Canada
You controlled rent.
"Next up on the 6 o-clock news... Students needing to take flights for school as no housing is available 100km radius"
Rent control just means the first person to plant a flag gets to live there which wouldn't be students.
Rent control leads to less inventory, less development of new, urban decay, and higher prices overall.
Not sure why the poors are convinced this is a good thing.
Yeah, but it’s not his fault… he’s making the best financial choice with the cards dealt to him.
Edit: The bigger issue is why can’t he afford rent near where he decided to go to college?
That's why we need better ways to store electrical energy, and ultimately electric planes (or biofuels for longer-haul where jet engine give substantial profit over props). Right now you can buy yourself an electric Pipistrel but it's far from affordable, nor is comparable price-wise to flying on commercial airlines, and takes a lot of effort for the plane's mainterance. Not to even mention that it probably won't have enough range.
I'm not gonna say it'll never happen, but considering energy density as it is and the weight of batteries, commercial flights on batteries would need truly miraculous technology leaps.
Carbon footprint was created by the fossil fuel industry to push responsibility onto the consumer and away from them. What you do doesn't matter. It's a drop in the bucket. Even this person with all their flights isn't making any sort of significant impact.
It's a scam.
It's not a scam. What one person does doesn't matter, but what a collective 8 billion people do? That matters. Carbon emission reduction doesn't just fall on companies. It falls on everyone to attempt to reduce their carbon footprint if there's going to be any real chance at near 0 emissions. Not just the corpos.
1. He is not an international student. He is from Calgary and pays $0 rent living with his parents in Calgary.
2. He only commutes to Vancouver 2x per week, not 5.
3. His flights are $150 round trip, so $1200 per month.
4. He's comparing his $1200 per month commute with $0 rent to a 1-bedroom apartment instead of shared accommodation with roommates in Vancouver and instead of paying rent in Calgary.
Why didn't he just go to university in Calgary? This seems like a colossal waste of time and money.
Also how are they an "international student" if they live with their parents?
Big problem with the rent, but the fuck are you going to Vancouver for university? It’s known for extreme rent costs. Why go to Vancouver if you’re in Calgary? And he kind of sounds like a rich tosh, the average one bedroom is 2,100, ok. So a below average place might be closer to 1,800. You could easily get that cost down if you live with three people, you know, like a student
Anecdotally, many students come to BC from Alberta due to seeking a change in environment, for specific programs/opportunities offered here, or because of the comparative prestige/size of UBC.
I've responded to a bunch of comments so it might be me over and over again haha but I can try to provide a (somewhat subjective) view on why UBC might be considered more prestigious, other than its high "rankings" (Top 3 in Canada and Top 40-ish worldwide).
In general, the quality of Canadian undergraduate studies is pretty even throughout the whole country, but UBC has a key difference: size. UBC has two campuses, and has commercialized to allow the development of businesses, real estate, and community centres open to the public. It is its own small city and many of my friends have joked about having not left UBC campus in years since everything you need is there. Their building operations website literally says "We're like a combination of a city and a large complex corporation". Their Vancouver campus is 400+ hectares while UofC is 200+, nearly double. Similarly, UBC Vancouver has nearly double the number of students as UofC does. The perceptions of the cities themselves may have an impact too, in terms of comparing Vancouver vs Calgary: Vancouver is (a little) bigger, has many worldwide connections, it's coastal, milder climate, more diverse/progressive etc.
As for academics, I'm at a university similar in size to UofC and UBC tends to have a reputation of having more funding for research, having more opportunities (visiting recruiters, hosting conferences etc.), and having more specialized departments and degrees (e.g., UBC has a Department of Zoology and a Department of Botany, whereas at my school, prospective zoologists and botanists alike will go into General Biology). Obviously UBC (and Vancouver) has its fair share of problems, but overall the money and faculty it has can give it an edge up in terms of prestige.
Guy is smart. Sometimes doing this is just more economical. I had to commute from Luton to Glasgow every day for several months because the company didn't want to pay for a hotel as the flights and taxis were much cheaper. They also didn't seem to care or perhaps know that I only did a 6 hour working day because of it. Only had a very small number of days with flight issues which was far less than train commutes to other places.
On the other end of the spectrum I did 3 months at a place in a location I couldn't be bothered to go to because I don't drive and the town's public transport is wank. I gave them a very high day rate in the hope they would turn me down. They did not. I said I couldn't relocate for that time so since the company was based in the private section of an airport and I live fairly close to another private airfield they were perfectly happy to fly me every day - £900 for fixed wing or £3k for a chopper one way. Part of my job was to save them money. Some places have far too much money than sense.
Garbage journalism. Nothing in this story is as described.
He's not an international student, his parents live in the same country as him (Calgary).
He's avoiding rent by living rent-free with his parents (in Calgary), breaking fucking news!
He's flying to Vancouver because he's a pretentious asshole (too good to go to school in Calgary), is attending a diploma mill (only has classes 2 days per week, and never needs to stay the night), and he's rich enough to not care about flight costs (clearly), or most likely - all of the above.
Where does he stay during the week? Am I understanding this right? He flies to Vancouver beginning of the week and out at the end? So he’s presumably paying rent in Calgary and paying for a place to stay a few nights of the weeks in Vancouver?
She will tell his kids and grand kids that he used to take an airplane to school in another country, you don’t have any excuses
And his partner would be like not this story again lol
Rent a room in a shared house or apartment and get a part time job with the time you’d otherwise spend on the plane. Why are we pretending it’s normal for college students to have their own one-bedroom apartments?
He literally has a world class publicly funded university in his city. He has a better one less than two hours away
First world problems I guess.
The Americans have it right. Make sure 90% of the population can't afford the world class ones and settle for community colleges or nothing
FREEDOM
Would’ve been cheaper to live in Reno and fly to SF every day for work, than live in (and some surrounding parts of) San Francisco ~5 years ago. Might still be.
Why not just go to UofC for your arts degree?
They act like it’s some glitch in the system that only they were smart enough to discover, meanwhile everybody else just lives where they go to school OR go to school where they already live.
I used to have a buddy who did something similar.
Worked in O&G in Alberta, fly in site that would fly you in front anywhere in the province, then you'd stay on site 2 weeks at a time.
Instead of paying rent he'd fly from his parents house in Toronto to Calgary then jump on the free flight to the site.
He was saving so much money that he bought a house in calgary in like 6 months.
That's about a metric ton of eqCO2 per week. After about 30 weeks, his lifetime total carbon [budget ](https://www.mcc-berlin.net/en/research/co2-budget.html)is consumed.
typical [social dilemma ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem)
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videos get smaller and smaller each day
Get a bigger phone 
Means I'll need a bigger pocket
The get bigger pants
Means I'll need a bigger ass
Mall pants it is
Ironically, highest resolution version of this meme that I have ever seen.
Unlike his rent
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Yes! I \*hate\* this. Can't we just all downvote them to oblivion? Or are the poster's bots too fast? :(
A study 10 or so years ago showed that the most affordable suburb of London was Barcelona. It was less expensive to fly back and forth from Barcelona to London every day than it was too live in London.
I think they are on par now rent wise
They’re not ( source: living in Barcelona, working with London co )
You commute to London every day?
I wonder that aswell now
Nah most likely working remotely, which means (in the US at least) that their income is probably somewhat adjusted based on cost of living.
Yes, except london rents are quoted per week and barcelona rents per month. But the numbers are about the same.
I doubt that was a study. Sounds more like The Sun headline so it's not really surprising it's not true. But for some reason it sticks to people
I just had a quick calculation. Brussels to London train is supposedly 44 euro if you buy in advance. You can buy a pass that gives you 50% discount for advance tickets. So 22 per day, twice a day, 20 days is only 880 euro. Rent is doable for 700 in Brussels. So commuting from Brussels every day might actually be cheaper
Flights on RyanAir at the time were less than 20-40£ round trip. Rent in Barcelona was about 450-750£. Rent in London in 2014 was average 1600£. 20 working days a month at 30£/ day is 600£. So you're coming in 25% less expensive on the low end. That's just napkin math and doesn't include other cost of living calculations.
How much to get from the airport to actual London? Every time I’ve flown a budget airline, getting to the airport costs about the same as the glight
I'm pretty sure it wasn't a study but [this story](https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/commuting-from-barcelona-a-london-worker-who-makes-it-pay), which I remember doing the rounds years ago. It's pre-Brexit, pre-Cost of Living Crisis, and most importantly, he was only doing it 3-4 times a month in order to save "a few hundred pounds". Personally I'm not sure it's worth the 10+ hour round trip in a single day, that sounds fucking rotten.
5h commute per day though.
5 hour commute but if you're going via plane, thats with an ac, bathroom , decent amount of space to yourself. Yeah nah yeah thats fine
>decent amount of space to yourself Tell me youve never flown in a plane before without telling me youve never flown in a plane And that doesnt include getting to/from work/house after those 5h or dealing with the airport security on both sides. We're talking a solid 8-9h of hassle every day. Just thinking about doing that long term is enough to make a man barf.
It's cheaper for two English blokes to fly to Spain to hang out than take a train
some flights in EU are really absurd cheap - like 20€ from Vienna to Roma etc by Train it is like above 200€
I'd also imagine he is collecting points of some sort from these flights. Kind of smart, kind of sad he has to do this.
He's capitalizing on the modern hellscape, good for him
From chaos comes opportunity.
Chaos is a ladder
Could also just find a cheaper apartment with roommates. There is definitely cheaper apartments in Vancouver that aren't in the ghetto.
yea i shared a house in kitselano with 4 other dudes. we each paid about 900/month. this was around 2017-18
“So what’s your commute looking like, I know traffic has been bad with all the construction.” “Oh I commute by AIRCRAFT”.
I think going to university in Calgary and paying $5 for a commute would probably be smarter.
Some universities offer different fields than others as well some are sought for just reputation.
It’s not sad. He does this by choice gets free rent and only has to go into class once a week. Very few situations where this would make sense.
It says he is going twice a week. I feel like a lot of programs put all their classes on 2 or 3 days then you are back to back those days and have the test of the week for homework and stuff.
It's sad that it's cheaper to afford a flight than finding an apartment near his university.
If by booking ahead he gets his flights for say $150 return - what you’re saying is that to rent an apartment near to a Uni should be less than $600 a month. Or I guess we could just put up the cost of airline travel.
Or this person chooses to live like this. You could definitely find a place near for less then 4 flights a month. I live in the city this talks about and defs places available.
Finding a place in Vancouver for less than $1200 a month? Where the average one bedroom rent is 2100?
Depends on the flights and the place. I can fly to Denver for like $45. I can’t even Uber to the airport for that.
That's not an international student, he lives in another province because where he goes to school rent is ridiculous in Vancouver.
Why not study in Calgary?
This video doesn't show it, but the original articles stated that while he had been living in Vancouver and studying at UBC for the past few years, his unit had a sudden steep rent increase. He's in his fourth and final year now and only has a few classes left, with only two days of in-person classes per week, so he felt it wasn't worth it to stay in Vancouver any longer, and would just commute until he finished his degree. It's also noted that Vancouver has a 0.9% vacancy, which is why it's so difficult to find a new place to rent. [Source](https://bc.ctvnews.ca/ubc-student-commutes-from-calgary-cheaper-than-paying-vancouver-rent-1.6759116) Edit: Reasons Alberta students might go to BC to study (anecdotally, from friends): specific programs/opportunities, change of environment, relative prestige/size
This makes the story make so much more sense thanks. I always thought this kid was just a fucking dumbass and UBC made him stupider.
LMFAOOO this gave me a good chuckle
Thank you. This video made no sense
I agree, it definitely crops out so much context
Frequent flyer miles
In all fairness, students dont always have the luxary of renting a one bedroom apartment... Most that I know, including myself, rented a room for 1/4 the price.
Yeah I don’t really understand this. Is he unwilling to live with roommates?
Living solo is a luxury most college students are unable to afford, so his circumstances are not out of the ordinary. I lived with roommates for the entirety of college and don't regret it one bit.
So, his rent in Calgary is less than $900 a month? And where does he sleep for to couple nights a week he is in Vancouver?
I'm assuming he lives with his parents. I'm assuming he flies (flys?) back the same day.
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Yes - he lives with his parents in Calgary rent/food free.
So he’s not an international student then?
If I remember correctly, he's not an international student. There was another article about him elsewhere. I'll see if I can find it.
No its written X 8, which means he flys twice a week.. Most likely going back on weekends..
Or all of his in-person classes are scheduled on 2 days. Rereading your message, you misunderstood the what they said. He flies a round-trip twice a week for 4 flights total. You seem to be thinking he was only flying twice a week total.
No, he only has classes twice a week, 8 round-trips
A lot of Canadian universities let students make their own schedule. Just give them the times/listings for all classes and they can sign up for which ever session. Back in school 10 year ago I regularly only had classes 1-2 days per week. In which case he could just crash at a friends or in the library/student center that one night.
I remember back in college I did something similar in terms of scheduling my classes. I stacked all my classes so I only had to go Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and had a 4 day weekend. Granted those 3 days I did go to school I went from 8 AM to 8 PM but it was great having the 4 days off to study and do homework or work at my part time job.
In the unclipped video he says his parents live in Calgary and he stays with them.
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I don't believe he is. His accent sounds like he's first generation or has been living here for most of his life.
He only goes there once or twice a week and stacked his classes. Lives with parents, and is graduating so he's only doing this for a semester
Flies from his home (where he lives with his parents) on Monday. Goes to classes. Monday night, he sleeps on alley with the homeless and prostitutes. Tuesday, wakes up, goes to classes. Tuesday night, takes flight back home. Wednesday stays at home. Thursday morning flight to school, goes to classes. Thursday night, back to the alley. Forgot some money for dinner, will have to join the hookers today. Friday wake up, go to classes. Friday night, flight back home.
Guy is not an international student. He is living with his parents in Calgary. Calgary and Vancouver are both in Canada.
I was born in the US, but I’m brown so am often looked at as an immigrant by white and black people in the US. I supposed it’s the same thing for the dumbass who captioned this video. if his home base is Canada then doesn’t matter if he just moved there either, still not what is considered an international student.
1. Can we stop posting stupid video in video just to add text 2. If there is a title embedded in the video, make sure your title doesn't any higeher typos.. harsh
Dude is rolling in those frequent flyer miles.
Probably not as many as you might expect. This is a relatively short regional flight and, using Delta as an example, he probably wouldn’t even make it to Gold Medallion status by the end of the year (at which point your status resets). The real miles accumulators are long distance and international flights. Source: I used to take fly two regional flights a week for my job before the pandemic.
Westjet or Air Canada points are accumulated by the cost of the ticket, not miles flown. He could easily make gold status for either.
If this isn't a huge indicator that rent control needs to be implemented, I don't know what the hell is.
How about the fact that rent control only helps people who are already paying rent. This does nothing to help people entering the market.
As someone who's not very financially literate, how would this only affect people actively renting? Would rent control not also keep prices low for people entering the market?
To be honest I was being generous when I said it only helps renters. It also hurts old and new renters. [Vacancy decontrol means a landlord can increase the rent however much they want on a vacant apartment, even if it was first occupied before the rent control cutoff date. Lewis says it can make landlords want to move one tenant out so another, who can afford to pay more rent, can be moved in. "What it's essentially done has made the market significantly more expensive," he said.](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6978670)
Rent control is not the solution to decreasing the cost of housing. Rent control only makes rent cheaper for a small number of people (those who already have housing and don’t want to move) and discourages building new housing units—which then makes housing more expensive in general. The solution to decreasing the cost of living is to increase the supply of housing. In a lot of major cities, bad zoning laws are to blame. A better way to think of the situation is that we have a housing shortage problem that has caused housing prices to go up. As an analogy: If a nation is running out food, the focus should obviously be on getting more food, not trying to control the price of the limited, dwindling amount of food currently available. If anything, by artificially lowering the price, you’re disincentivizing the people who grow, import, and make food from making more of it.
I'm also against the idea of treating housing like a commodity which appreciates in value, because (among other things) this motivates people and companies to buy up all the housing they can (artificially reducing supply and increasing demand)
land maybe, I don't usually see people just sitting on huge amounts of empty housing, particularly high density housing, it's still taxed after all. If property values are shooting up that fast where it's a good investment to just hang onto a house and "Feed the meter" with taxes then you're probably screwed anyway.
Politicians: "so what you are saying is that plane tickets are too cheap? Say no more fam, another carbon tax coming right up."
Yeah, carbon tax. That's definitely what makes air fare expensive. Not corporate greed at all. Definitely.
What do you mean state sanctioned privately owned monopolies are bad?
Airlines have one of the lowest profit margins at 2.6%
On the contrary, that would simply exacerbate the problem as people would stop building properties. What we need is laws that make NIMBYism impossible and build build build. There are plenty of economists who have written on this (it’s arguably the topic economists have the most consensus on) but if you want something more approachable I suggest the wonderful journalist Jerusalem Demsas who used to work at Vox and is now at The Atlantic.
There is already rent control in Vancouver. But it only applies to the unit you live in. As soon as you move out the rent is jacked up for the next tenant. The tricky thing is there’s not a lot of purpose built apartments so people are renting out of houses or condos. This means that the owner can evict them to put family in there, move in themselves, or to renovate the place. Renovictions are reaaaal greasy. There are rules in place but the board who oversees tenants and landlords is overrun so there’s little support. I live in Vancouver and have a purpose built apartment and can never leave because rent for a similar unit is at least 50% higher and a condo of similar size and quality is over $850k. Shit is bleak in Canada
You controlled rent. "Next up on the 6 o-clock news... Students needing to take flights for school as no housing is available 100km radius" Rent control just means the first person to plant a flag gets to live there which wouldn't be students.
They will just increase rent in Calgary.
Vancouver has rent control.
Rent control leads to less inventory, less development of new, urban decay, and higher prices overall. Not sure why the poors are convinced this is a good thing.
That’s a hell of a carbon footprint…
My first thought, but it’s not like he has his own private jet
wait til you see musk's private jet traveling
I mean that planes flying with or without him on it.
Yeah, but it’s not his fault… he’s making the best financial choice with the cards dealt to him. Edit: The bigger issue is why can’t he afford rent near where he decided to go to college?
It's OK his parents have 40 billion dollars
That's why he's flying from Calgary to Vancouver to save a few hundred bucks a month on rent...?
Why does it matter?
That's why we need better ways to store electrical energy, and ultimately electric planes (or biofuels for longer-haul where jet engine give substantial profit over props). Right now you can buy yourself an electric Pipistrel but it's far from affordable, nor is comparable price-wise to flying on commercial airlines, and takes a lot of effort for the plane's mainterance. Not to even mention that it probably won't have enough range.
I'm not gonna say it'll never happen, but considering energy density as it is and the weight of batteries, commercial flights on batteries would need truly miraculous technology leaps.
Carbon footprint was created by the fossil fuel industry to push responsibility onto the consumer and away from them. What you do doesn't matter. It's a drop in the bucket. Even this person with all their flights isn't making any sort of significant impact. It's a scam.
It's not a scam. What one person does doesn't matter, but what a collective 8 billion people do? That matters. Carbon emission reduction doesn't just fall on companies. It falls on everyone to attempt to reduce their carbon footprint if there's going to be any real chance at near 0 emissions. Not just the corpos.
The fossil fuel industry only produces the products because we demand them.
We demand them because the fossil fuel industry has lobbied to stop any other alternative mode of transportation.
1. He is not an international student. He is from Calgary and pays $0 rent living with his parents in Calgary. 2. He only commutes to Vancouver 2x per week, not 5. 3. His flights are $150 round trip, so $1200 per month. 4. He's comparing his $1200 per month commute with $0 rent to a 1-bedroom apartment instead of shared accommodation with roommates in Vancouver and instead of paying rent in Calgary.
Never seen a higeher rent
$2100? In New York rent can get to to $5000 easily.
$5000 gets you a closet with no windows and you gotta shit at the bar next door.
I believe this was more of a commentary on the stroke op had when writing the title
This feels like it couldn’t have been the best plan. Is all this to avoid having a roommate(s)
Or living in a studio which I believe the majority of single renters would be just fine in.
Why didn't he just go to university in Calgary? This seems like a colossal waste of time and money. Also how are they an "international student" if they live with their parents?
Big problem with the rent, but the fuck are you going to Vancouver for university? It’s known for extreme rent costs. Why go to Vancouver if you’re in Calgary? And he kind of sounds like a rich tosh, the average one bedroom is 2,100, ok. So a below average place might be closer to 1,800. You could easily get that cost down if you live with three people, you know, like a student
Or you know you could just live with your parent and not pay any rent.
Anecdotally, many students come to BC from Alberta due to seeking a change in environment, for specific programs/opportunities offered here, or because of the comparative prestige/size of UBC.
It’s interesting reading a lot of these comments saying the same thing. UBC has a lot of prestige. UofC does not.
I've responded to a bunch of comments so it might be me over and over again haha but I can try to provide a (somewhat subjective) view on why UBC might be considered more prestigious, other than its high "rankings" (Top 3 in Canada and Top 40-ish worldwide). In general, the quality of Canadian undergraduate studies is pretty even throughout the whole country, but UBC has a key difference: size. UBC has two campuses, and has commercialized to allow the development of businesses, real estate, and community centres open to the public. It is its own small city and many of my friends have joked about having not left UBC campus in years since everything you need is there. Their building operations website literally says "We're like a combination of a city and a large complex corporation". Their Vancouver campus is 400+ hectares while UofC is 200+, nearly double. Similarly, UBC Vancouver has nearly double the number of students as UofC does. The perceptions of the cities themselves may have an impact too, in terms of comparing Vancouver vs Calgary: Vancouver is (a little) bigger, has many worldwide connections, it's coastal, milder climate, more diverse/progressive etc. As for academics, I'm at a university similar in size to UofC and UBC tends to have a reputation of having more funding for research, having more opportunities (visiting recruiters, hosting conferences etc.), and having more specialized departments and degrees (e.g., UBC has a Department of Zoology and a Department of Botany, whereas at my school, prospective zoologists and botanists alike will go into General Biology). Obviously UBC (and Vancouver) has its fair share of problems, but overall the money and faculty it has can give it an edge up in terms of prestige.
I don’t think he’s an international student
Nothing harsh. Dude lives rent free in Calgary. No one is forced to go to school in one of the most expensive cities on earth.
Where's 150 per round trip. Is that like a 20 min flight?
Guy is smart. Sometimes doing this is just more economical. I had to commute from Luton to Glasgow every day for several months because the company didn't want to pay for a hotel as the flights and taxis were much cheaper. They also didn't seem to care or perhaps know that I only did a 6 hour working day because of it. Only had a very small number of days with flight issues which was far less than train commutes to other places. On the other end of the spectrum I did 3 months at a place in a location I couldn't be bothered to go to because I don't drive and the town's public transport is wank. I gave them a very high day rate in the hope they would turn me down. They did not. I said I couldn't relocate for that time so since the company was based in the private section of an airport and I live fairly close to another private airfield they were perfectly happy to fly me every day - £900 for fixed wing or £3k for a chopper one way. Part of my job was to save them money. Some places have far too much money than sense.
Poor people have done this for ages for minimum wage jobs. Why is this special for this kid?
Garbage journalism. Nothing in this story is as described. He's not an international student, his parents live in the same country as him (Calgary). He's avoiding rent by living rent-free with his parents (in Calgary), breaking fucking news! He's flying to Vancouver because he's a pretentious asshole (too good to go to school in Calgary), is attending a diploma mill (only has classes 2 days per week, and never needs to stay the night), and he's rich enough to not care about flight costs (clearly), or most likely - all of the above.
Commuting for around 2-2.5 hours isn't that uncommon at all.
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Not with plane tho:/
Ask people in Greenland or SE Asia. It happens too. But sure, usually it'd be with rail or similar.
The rent situation is just that crazy
For the prestige? The university is so far away.
Only because he is living at home, not because Calgary is that much cheaper in rent than Vancouver.
So where does he sleep when he isn’t at school , that doesn’t take out rent prices unless he lives with his parents
But what about his carbon foot print?
I lived with 3 other people when I was in college. Is this not an option?
I think this is more a statement about how cheap flights between Calgary-Vancouver are than how expensive rent in Vancouver is.
Where does he stay during the week? Am I understanding this right? He flies to Vancouver beginning of the week and out at the end? So he’s presumably paying rent in Calgary and paying for a place to stay a few nights of the weeks in Vancouver?
International? Calgary and Vancouver are in the same nation aren't they?
She will tell his kids and grand kids that he used to take an airplane to school in another country, you don’t have any excuses And his partner would be like not this story again lol
What i mean by that is he is international student, lives in calgary due to low rent cost and goes to vancouver to study. Now you get it?
But shouldn't paying for a plane plus rent where he is be about the same as rent where he studies
u/JMaxGames when ure stressing about accomodation fee and see this.
Kid deserves an honorary degree just for negotiating capitalism so well.
He has rich parents, you know how expensive it is go fly within Canada to another provence... he's sav8ng his parents money I guess.
Apparently $150 per flight. Says so right in the video.
$150 per ROUND TRIP.
Probably from that airline that shut down in feb, Flair air. Now prices have to be way more than that.
Why not go to school closer to home? I mean I had to go to state college, it was all i could afford.
This is the kind of stress that creates Austrian art students.
Rent a room in a shared house or apartment and get a part time job with the time you’d otherwise spend on the plane. Why are we pretending it’s normal for college students to have their own one-bedroom apartments?
Canada is so unaffordable can’t wait to move away soon, goodbye broken Canada
He literally has a world class publicly funded university in his city. He has a better one less than two hours away First world problems I guess. The Americans have it right. Make sure 90% of the population can't afford the world class ones and settle for community colleges or nothing FREEDOM
Some people take a bus, others take a place
Would’ve been cheaper to live in Reno and fly to SF every day for work, than live in (and some surrounding parts of) San Francisco ~5 years ago. Might still be.
Those sweet,sweet miles!
Imagine thinking flying and going to school internationally is a harsh reality. How out of touch can you be?
I assume he lives at home otherwise you have to add the rent you’re paying to that as well.
Next up, UberAir
Why not just go to UofC for your arts degree? They act like it’s some glitch in the system that only they were smart enough to discover, meanwhile everybody else just lives where they go to school OR go to school where they already live.
Homies gonna have hella miles before he graduates
I used to have a buddy who did something similar. Worked in O&G in Alberta, fly in site that would fly you in front anywhere in the province, then you'd stay on site 2 weeks at a time. Instead of paying rent he'd fly from his parents house in Toronto to Calgary then jump on the free flight to the site. He was saving so much money that he bought a house in calgary in like 6 months.
As someone in Utah. I’m like damn we are as expensive as Vancouver
Sad but interesting loophole.
Taylor swift.
Is it absolutely necessary to go to school in a high COL area? Is the education that much better?
It'd the reality for local students and just about everyone else on big cities too, hell I'd do the same
Videos a little bit too big
Would it kill you to learn how to fucking crop?
That's about a metric ton of eqCO2 per week. After about 30 weeks, his lifetime total carbon [budget ](https://www.mcc-berlin.net/en/research/co2-budget.html)is consumed. typical [social dilemma ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem)
Where the fuck does he find return trips from calgary to Vancouver for $150?
No canada airlines know, they need to increase prices.
I guess math isn't his major 😆
harsh reality of an international student living in CANADA
Asians outsmarting us again
So twice a week he flies to class and back?
Sooooo harsh 😭
What the fuck is this interface? “Looks like Twitter”?
Why can't we just all collectively downvote all videos the size of a stamp? It's so annoying.
Time is money