本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛It is all about your income. Buying an expensive house without enough income would make living quality suffer.

If you spend more than 63% of all income on basic necessities (food, shelter, clothing and footwear) , you are actually living in poverty.

see the description of poverty below (excerpted from The Current State ofCanadian Family Finances 2007 Report):

How do we know how many are poor?
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How many of us are poor? This should be easy to answer but it is not. Canada does not have an “official”
measure of who is poor. Out of necessity, analysts use Statistics Canada’s LICO-AIT measure,
which translates to Low Income Cutoffs After Income Taxes. Appendix B provides detailed
poverty estimates based on this measure. Using this measure, households which spend more than
63% of their incomes on basic necessities (food, shelter, clothing and footwear) are deemed to be
in what Statistics Canada likes to call “straitened circumstances”. Most analysts call this poverty.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

都是些XB贴。国人爱显富， 有心理需求的因数， 可以理解。 可国移们出来应该有些年头了， 可都还那么渴望。

难道有人希望自己的子女在一个天天打架，骂人，乌烟瘴气的学校读书？然后还希望出淤泥而不染？青少年比较容易受外界的影响，因此学校环境自然很重要。“吃饭吧唧吧唧的，鼻毛不剪的，穿衣露点的，脚臭不管的“，这好像不应该是一个评判的标准吧，这只是最简单基本的礼仪，与成不成才有什么关系？尽管穷人的孩子不一定是穷人，医生的孩子也不一定是医生，但是，就大多数普通人而言，如果子女有机会进入名大学，生活之路顺畅的机会至少是大很多。总体而言，您认为斯坦福的毕业生收入高，还是senica？我想答案是显而易见。