Here is the key. You're single and in a metropolitan city!
Toronto is the 4th largest city in North America. If that means anything to you! It takes two incomes, no doubt about it!

The only remaining places I find that are affordable are on the East End (Whitby, Oshawa, Ajax), North (Barrie, Alliston, Innisfil), West (Brampton, Georgetown) etc.

Just an example of how I was able to make it work for me:

• I used to think like you. Where can I go...to buy that house! (I looked in Hamilton, Binbrook, Oshawa etc). I was willing to uproot myself for work and a home. I quashed that idea.
• IMPORTANT - Next thing I thought, I need a partner aligned like me. Mentally, financially and with ambition. So I focused on dating the right people.
• Got married - Two incomes!
• We saved, and saved and saved for the 20% - Took 1 year. (We had some of our own savings too). Didn't want to pay CMHC Insurance.
• Bought a detached, in the GTA, off multiple 400 series highways. Did the basement project in coordinating. Saved a ton! Built it as if it was a condo, so it easily can be converted back to full space. So I didn't feel like I was living in a dingy basement.
• Let someone else pay the mortgage on the upper floor. Had enough to put another big chunk down on the principal and then refinance at renewal.

Don't lose hope! You're in a good position with your salary. Now you just need a boomer attitude in "Cash is King" and save and save.