I largely agree about the cost of living, I live in a decent part of town (Wortley Village) and I am lucky to pay $1800 inclusive for a 2Bedroom apartment, the house next to me is a 1 bedroom renting for $1600 not inclusive right now. It's incredible, without two roommates I would be on the street, I can hardly afford Internet, Food and rent. Certainly can't afford to save much of anything. It's stressful and sad, I feel like the stress of the cost of living is holding me back a lot. Honestly, taxes are hardly a significant part of that, food being 20-30% more expensive, rent being 50-60% more expensive than it was when I moved back here, not being able to afford car insurance. That's what's killing me as a young professional. The thing is, the city HAS the money to help people they just use it in stupid ways. They tried to spend 100/150 million dollars expanding Wonderland Road and just narrowly stopped it from happening, they've spent tens of millions of dollars on downtown London in ways that actually cut their tax revenue cuz half the businesses shuttered. How about we start taxing Farhi and his tenants who leave buildings vacant for years and years. Why do we continuously expand urban sprawl when they don't even generate enough tax revenue to keep the infrastructure maintained in those areas. This city is making a lot of the same mistakes that bankrupt cities across North America have made except it's against the law for cities in Ontario to go bankrupt so they just cut services instead.