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UBC student flies from Calgary to save rent money (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Gotta be one of the most fucked up news articles I have seen recently. If this doesn't illustrate how bad things are here I don't know what does.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

$1200 a month on flights

I cannot believe he pays $300 for a week of flights.

Also, if that's his transit costs, he must live AT the airport or can teleport there an hour or so ahead of his flight to get through security and make it to his gate.

Why isn't travel to and from YYC and YVR and waiting at the gates part of his listed commute?

The math seems weird.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

@corsicanguppy @uzi student transit pass would make sense. And he must have lounge access, so free breakfast, lunch or dinner. A place that’s quite to study while you wait for your flight, free wifi, I mean really starts to look like a brilliant idea if you’re staying rent free at home.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I think he only has two days of classes. Like this entire thing is stupid and the news is basically making it sound like he's a full time student. It's basically propaganda

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Not sure his airline now, but for a while Swoop had 39-49 dollar flights between those airports. on sale days I even got a Swoop flight from Toronto to Abbotsford for $15 ticket price, unfortunately Toronto charges $50 airport improvement fee on top of ticket