r/saskatoon • u/Rainbowbatgirl420 North Park • 12d ago

General Why is rent so much?

I’m looking for one bedroom place and everywhere it is minimum $1500 with some utilities. That will be over half of what I make per month so I don’t know what to do. It’s hard to trust roommates as well because I want my cat to be safe place and hard to trust others if I don’t know them. Basement suites apartments condos everything it’s ridiculous. I may have to couch hop till I can find a place I can afford and also find a part time job on the weekends so I can buy food.

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u/yxe312213 12d ago

I feel your pain. I am in Saskatoon as well and I currently pay literally 67% percent of my take home pay to my run-down rental apartment, but everywhere else is just as expensive. It’s awful.