Learn the English Phrases TO MAKE A LIVING and A LIVING WAGE

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase "to make a living."
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When you say that someone is getting enough money
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from work to make a living,
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it means they have enough money to pay all of their bills.
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I make a living by going to work and teaching
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and by doing YouTube and between the two,
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I have enough money every month to pay all my bills.
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So it's really nice to be able to make a living
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doing something that I like.
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It's nice to be able to earn enough money
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from my teaching job and from YouTube to pay all my bills.
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It's kind of satisfying to sit down once a month
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and pay all the bills and just make,
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and just have enough money to do it.
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So I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination,
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but I do make a living by going to work
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every day and by doing YouTube,
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and, of course, the flower farm as well.
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The other English phrase I wanted to teach you
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today is the phrase "a living wage."
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So a living wage in Canada is about $18 or $19 an hour,
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and working about 40 hours per week.
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If you earn that much money in Canada,
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we call it a living wage.
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That means it's enough money to rent an apartment
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and to pay your bills and to live a somewhat okay life.
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It's on, a little bit on the low end maybe.
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It might sound like a lot of money to you,
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but Canada is an expensive place to live.
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I mean, milk at the store is $7,
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so making about $18 or $19 or $20 an hour,
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we would call that a living wage,
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but by the time you've paid rent and paid your taxes,
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which are really high in Canada,
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and bought groceries and maybe a little bit of money
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left over to do something fun,
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it's, it doesn't go very far.
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In English, when you say, money doesn't go very far,
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it means you spend it and then it's gone fairly quickly.
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So, to review, to make a living is to work
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and to have enough money to pay all your bills.
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And if you make a living wage,
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it means the place where you work pays you just enough money
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for you to be able to have a life
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where you can pay your bills,
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but you're not gonna be able to save
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a lot for retirement on a living wage,
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but you'll be able to pay all your bills.
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Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Vitor,
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and from the last video where I was in town.
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Vitor says, beautiful houses, Bob.
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Nice pair of colors.
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Dark brown walls are matching the roofs.
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Indeed, a top-notch place to live
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and a calm park for kids to play.
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Now that things are getting back to normal,
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it is a great idea to hang out with your kids
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to have some quality time.
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By the way, thanks for the lesson.
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And my response, yeah, I'm liking the colors as well.
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This was a newer row of houses in my local town
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and they were bought up quick.
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So an interesting thing is happening in Canada
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when it comes to housing.
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We don't have enough houses in Canada.
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Right now, the price of houses is really, really high
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because there aren't very many houses,
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especially in my area.
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I live in an area where in particular retired people
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like to move to my area.
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It's a slightly warmer part of the province.
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I mean, the winters are still really cold.
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You've probably seen that in some of my videos,
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but it's a little bit warmer than a place like Ottawa
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or one of the northern cities in Ontario.
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So around this area, houses are very, very expensive
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and apartments are very expensive.
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A house in my area would cost about $500,000 Canadian,
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so half a million dollars to buy a house,
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and an apartment would be about $1,800 a month,
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maybe $2,000 a month,
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so certainly not a cheap place to live.
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When I was mentioning the living wage,
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you might have thought $18 or $19 an hour
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sounds like a lot, but once you pay your mortgage
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or pay your rent, it's not really.
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Anyways, thanks for watching.
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I'll see you in a couple days
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with another short English lesson.
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Bye.
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