A lot of fresh grads (from UBC) in Vancouver are living around Kitsilano where you can get a one bedroom place for &lt;$1000&#x2F;month. Right now I live in a two bedroom flat in the heart of Kits where I&#x27;m paying $825 and my flatmate $725.<p>Previously to that in Vancouver I lived in the heart of Yaletown in a 550sqft studio costing about $1300&#x2F;month, and started living there on a salary of about $62k.<p>I&#x27;ve never had financial struggles living in Vancouver with salaries ranging from $42-85k, and have generally had enough disposable income to afford to travel quite a bit, ski at Whistler every weekend, and eat out and go out regularly.<p>That said, it&#x27;s totally a renter&#x27;s market. It&#x27;s unaffordable for me to buy anything that I&#x27;d want to live in for the longer term, unless I go to Surrey or somewhere else in greater Vancouver, which would completely take away or hinder a lot of the benefits I see to living in Vancouver.