How is the accomodation expenses in Canada for an international student?

Heey I'm from Canada! Me and my family immigrated here... but I have a lot of friends who are international students as well! Are you under 18? Do you have any family in Canada?
And I think that Toronto, Ontario or Vancouver would be rather cheap to settle into

 

Toronto and Vancouver are probably the most expensive places to live these days. Back in the day Montreal used to be the least expensive but I have no idea if that's still true.

My guess is, in general, mid-sized cities will be cheaper than the biggest ones. My suggestion would be to go on Kijiji and just look up the prices of studio or one bedroom apartments and compare. I would suggest too that you google "areas to avoid + location" to make sure you're looking at neighbourhoods where you'll feel comfortable. Every city, regardless of size, has its high-crime neighbourhoods.

Different regions have different costs of living too, so your rent may be comparable to other cities but your food costs or utilities may be higher or lower. There used to be a web site that compared cities' cost of living, maybe check for that.

Hope this is helpful.

 

Also depends on what your currency is worth vs the Canadian dollar. I know from a guy I follow on Youtube, that things cost more than they do down here in America.

It might be cheaper and less stressful to find on campus housing run by the school.

 

I found the website where you can make comparisons. Probably best to double check of course.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

 

Also if you’re a first year student make sure they don’t require you to stay on campus freshman year. That’s how my college is, but it might just be an American thing.