text: Imagine your kids getting out of college, finding good employment, and starting to make not $40,000 but $50,000/year - so 100,000 for a family. 
  
  How is this young family able to purchase a house in Toronto or Vancouver? 
  
  I am a first generation immigrant to this country - and after answering this question I decided to tell my college going son to consider going back to Europe. 
  
  The Canadian dream is dead and smells funny.