Married mother says she worries about having enough for her kids’ education costs and her inability to leave them an inheritance
: “My kids going to university. We do put money into the every month for them but I don’t know if that’s going to be sufficient.”
But what she saves in rent she ends up spending on food. The town’s grocery stores charge what she calls “tourist prices,” jacking up the costs of some food items more than double their cost in Edmonton, which is about 365 kilometres to the northeast. The family moved to Jasper, in Alberta’s stunning Rocky Mountain region, from the Edmonton area in 2022. Anastasia says the food prices initially gave her “sticker shock.
To save money, the family does a big shop while they are visiting family in Hinton, about an hour away, and has started buying non-perishables such as tissue and toilet paper from Amazon. Her mom lives in an Edmonton condo worth about $200,000 that is in Anastasia’s name, so she will eventually inherit that, but otherwise, Anastasia doesn’t have much in savings. She doesn’t have much debt either, but her lack of savings has her worried about the future, particularly as it relates to her kids.
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