A box lunch is about 25~30 yuan RMB, which is cheaper without tipping.
If you can cook by yourself, buy food and cook by yourself. Much more than what I bought outside.
There are standards for useful things. If you don't care whether something is a famous brand, you can bring some clothes, shoes, socks and underwear from China. If you like famous brands, it is cheaper to buy them in Canada.
Remember to bring some common medicines when you come, because it is very expensive to buy medicines in Canada.
And some medicines require a doctor to prove that you are not an immigrant or a citizen. It costs more than 100 Canadian dollars, equivalent to RMB 500~600.
I remember there are electronic dictionaries and books in the dictionary.
If you have electrical appliances (with plugs) brought from China, bring a transformer.
Winter will be very cold and dry, similar to the northeast. Down jackets can be bought in Canada or sent to Canada.
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Canada is originally an immigrant country, so it has no cultural characteristics.
Be polite. If you accidentally touch someone and step on someone's foot, you will say sorry.
I hope others will get out of the way or say sorry when I find someone doing something or talking.
When someone opens the door for you or hands you something, say thank you or thank you.
Strangers often greet you in the street out of enthusiasm. . Generally speaking, it is easy to answer questions like "Hi, how are you?".
When asking for help, you should use questions. You can't just say get me a pen, but say, can you lend me a pen? Or add an invitation at the end of the sentence, please lend me a pen.
Don't be too loud in public places.
Remember to flush after using the toilet.
Don't eat or drink in public places (except restaurants and bars).
Don't smoke in public places (except the smoking room)
Don't run red lights and cross the road.
Please?Line?Up?
Don't tell people who wear weird clothes or other nationalities what to do.
Please respect Jesus in Canada.
Try to avoid direct contact with black people. Black people have the highest probability of committing crimes (no racial discrimination)
People who are not familiar enough try not to touch other people's bodies.
Don't litter and spit everywhere.
Don't pick flowers at someone else's door.
When taking the bus, try to sit in the back. The front row can be reserved for the elderly, children, pregnant women or the disabled.
Never touch anything with a disabled sign unless you want to be fined or BS.
After eating out, if it is disposable tableware, consciously dump the remaining garbage into the trash can and leave the dishes outside the trash can.
Do garbage sorting.
Don't run naked in the street in a pair of boxer shorts in summer.
Have a strong sense of time.
Take care of public property.
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Life in Canada is very simple.
There are not many entertainment facilities in Canada, and all the entertainment facilities are concentrated in the downtown business district.
Every time you go to play, the minimum is 10 Canadian dollars, and the maximum can be reduced to infinity.
There are casinos, bars and other places. 19 before you can go in. It's best not to drink or gamble.
More than 19 people need to buy emergency contraception, and more than 19 girls need to buy drugs (pay attention to girls). There is no one in the shop.
Shops in Canada are very concentrated, and there will be shopping malls, large and small shops and restaurants at intersections. (There are no intersections in residential areas)
If you like shopping, you can find a good shopping center (a shopping center larger than a shopping center).
It is best for international students not to keep pets.
Keeping a dog requires registration, birth control, beauty treatment, tooth cleaning and so on. Every year, they need to see a pet doctor for vaccination. They should take them out twice a day, or they will abuse their pets and countless peripheral items.
Cats need breeding, birth control, nail cutting and countless peripheral products.
Rats or Dutch pigs are easy to raise, but they are still worried about peripheral products such as seedling raising.
Snakes, lizards, spiders, ants, turtles, fish and other pet peripheral products are infinite, which is particularly difficult to buy.
And it is very troublesome to bring it back to China after studying abroad.
It is very expensive to return pets to pet hotels while studying abroad. It is very expensive to take them back and isolate them for at least 1 month, and then isolate them for 1 month.
So keeping a pet is asking for trouble.
There are usually small parks and children's amusement facilities near residential areas.
The swimming pool is open for free occasionally, but there are as many people as jiaozi.
There are gyms and swimming pools in the apartment, which are only open to residents.
Golf, skiing and other sports, spend a lot of money to play once.
From May to 65438+ 10, there is a strong playground in Wonderland. A group ticket of 56 Canadian dollars for one person can get about 50% discount. There should be more than 25 people in the group. Recommend an amusement park worth playing.
In summer, many people go to Lake Ontario for barbecues, boating, swimming and sunbathing. Going to Lake Ontario with friends is free. Remember to pack your things when you are finished.
There are casinos and haunted houses in Great Falls, just across from America. You can visit the United States with a visa. July 4th is Canada's National Day, when colored lights will be projected onto waterfalls and fireworks will be set off. You can stay there for one night. It will be beautiful. In July, the cherries in Canada are also ripe. Some orchards behind the waterfall can buy tickets to pick cherries from trees.
Learn to drive as soon as possible after arriving in Canada, and take the G 1. Then G2 passes the G2 test and can drive. After completing the G2 test, you must take the G card within five years, otherwise G2 will be invalid. It's inconvenient to take a bus in Canada. The vast territory and sparsely populated situation make the business district and residents in Canada far apart. The bus runs very slowly, so there is nothing to strike. So you must buy a car! It is ok to buy a used car at first. Not so good. 3000-5000 Canadian dollars is almost enough. Young people's insurance will be more expensive, at least 100 per month, and the oil price is similar to that in China.
Every year1October 30th, 10 is Halloween in Canada. If you live at home, you should prepare some sweets for your children. Children will ask you for candy from door to door. At Christmas, relatives and friends can give gifts to each other, and it is ok to have no money to send greeting cards. The second day of Christmas is Boxing Day, and most stores will have big discounts! It's good to buy famous brands on this day, but you will meet many people. Occasionally, there will be a wearhouse with cosmetics and skin care products, with a great discount. If you have tickets, you can go in and buy them, and then take them back to China and send them to your mother or relatives. It's much cheaper than those bought in China. But I am worried about whether it will expire. Tickets are generally around 10 Canadian dollars. In addition, you can buy lecithin as a gift when you return home. Anyone over 35 should start eating it. Buy around 7 yuan before tax in COSCO, and buy a lot for parents! Seal oil, American ginseng, royal jelly and maple syrup are also acceptable.
In addition to Canada's National Day, Victoria Day can also set off fireworks. It was Queen Victoria's birthday, and people would sell fireworks during the day. You can release them at night. But it's not as lively as the Spring Festival in China.
Besides, Toronto is very, very dry, so we should get some water. Ultraviolet rays are very strong. Men and women should remember to use sunscreen. To avoid skin cancer! Canadians change a suit almost every day. Change it every day if you can. Wash it once a week, otherwise it will be easily considered unclean.
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Set aside a section for traffic!
Since you are coming to Toronto, you must use TTC (unless you drive yourself).
TTC has monthly ticket, weekly ticket and daily ticket = =
Monthly ticket need not be explained. An adult monthly ticket is about 100.
The weekly ticket is a shortened version of the monthly ticket, and the price is not clear.
The daily ticket is a shortened version of the weekly ticket! One ticket, 9 yuan, for several people. As for the number of people, there are many ways to match. You can check it in detail then. The daily ticket is only for one day.
In addition, TTC has something similar to a coin, which can also be used as a ticket. The price of this is calculated according to the fare at that time. If you don't plan to live in Toronto for 10 years, then don't buy it. Buying this coin is waiting for the ticket price to rise. After the price increase, the cheap coins you bought 10 years ago can still be used after 10 years. But if you really want to make money like this, you need to wait indefinitely.
TTC and tickets! There are adult students and children. You have to sell at least 5 Zhang Cai for each ticket, and you need to buy it in multiples of 5. There is no such thing as buying seven tickets. Of course you can't use children's. If you look like a student, maybe you can buy a student ticket. Students need to go to TTC to get a student ID card, which is specially used to take the TTC exam. Five yuan for a student. You need to take the paper given by the school and the signature of the principal to do it, and you need to take pictures when you do it. Many drivers don't check their student ID cards, and occasionally they encounter perverts to check them. There are more adult tickets for 2 yuan, and one student ticket 1 yuan. I don't know whether TTC will increase its price every year before this year.
If you choose to invest in cash, the student price is 2 each. 75 adults, 3 yuan.
Besides, you can ask the TTC driver to change trains when you get on the bus. You can transfer. But this is limited to the street where you get off. For example, if you get off at one street, you can only transfer at one street. If you want to change at B Street, the driver won't let you get on. And transfer cannot be used on the same bus. If you take bus No.85 to station A, you want to take bus No.85 back to the starting point. This is not good. You can't change to bus no.85 to go to Bali. Transfer is only used for north-south cars to transfer to east-west cars. Or an east-west car turns to a north-south car.
1 transfer paper cannot be reused. If you show the driver the transfer bus, the driver won't give you another transfer bus. Transfer must be used within 2 hours, and it is invalid after expiration. The driver can see when you got the transfer from the gap in the transfer. )
The terminal of all TTC buses is subway station. You can enter the subway station directly from the bus without paying. Subway and bus belong to TTC family = =
In the subway station, you can go wherever you want, and nobody cares about you. When you get to where you want to go by subway, there will be a TTC bus outside. You can get on the bus for free and go where you want to go. If the bus can't go directly to the place you want to go, you can print a transfer ticket on the spot on the machine in the subway station. You can change after you get off the bus.
TTC covers the whole of Toronto. If you want to go further, you might as well go to TTC to save money.
TTC's parking space is fixed. You can't stop without telling the driver. Look at the map! !
Generally, there will be a red pillar at the TTC parking spot, which is not big. It says TTC stop. A slightly larger station will also have a small transparent house. You can keep out the wind in winter. Posts usually say the arrival time of the next TTC. But the time is not particularly accurate. .
When you want to get off at TTC, don't tell the driver that you want to get off or anything. But there will be a yellow rope near the window (on both sides of the window) The rope goes from the back of the car to the front of the car. Pull that rope. You will hear a prompt, and the prompt sounds of different cars are different. The words on the front sign will also turn red. In addition, some handrails or railings have a red button on the door. The door says stop. Pressing that red button has the same effect as pulling the yellow line. The driver will judge whether to stop according to this.
TTC buses get off at the front and back doors. Sometimes you can go down when no one comes in at the front door. When you get off the bus, there are about two kinds of TTC. One is to let you stand on the ladder of getting off, and the door will open automatically. There is also a door that says push. Just push that door and you can open it.
———————————————— In addition, there is a beautiful housing problem. . I believe you won't buy a house.
There are many kinds of student dormitories. If there is a university, there is a dormitory. The dormitory is divided into 1 person or 2 people. Prices vary from university to university. I wonder if there will be such a thing in your college.
There are still many people who rent their own houses.
Rent a one-bedroom apartment with a sun room. Water, electricity and heating are free. No furniture, no landline, no internet, no TV. A month, maybe 960 yuan. It is not convenient for a student to live like this.
Ditto. Find someone to live in a bedroom or a solar house. Then share it with two people on the internet and TV. But there will be no furniture.
Rent a room (about 10 square meter) with kitchen and bathroom. Simple furniture, Internet TV. Water, electricity and heating are free. Apartments/apartments range from 350 to 500 pounds a month.
Rent the master room (15-25m2), use the bathroom with simple furniture to surf the Internet, and TV, water, electricity and heating are free. Apartment/apartment is 400-600 a month.
Rent a room (about 10 square meter) with kitchen and bathroom. Simple furniture, Internet TV. Water, electricity and heating are free. Houses/townhouses range from 350 to 500 a month.
Rent the master room (15-25m2), use the bathroom with simple furniture to surf the Internet, and TV, water, electricity and heating are free. Houses/townhouses cost 400-600 a month.
Rent a house (13- 16 square meters), kitchen and bathroom with simple furniture, TV, water, electricity and heating are free. The basement is 280-350 a month.
If you share a room with a friend or partner and change it to AA system, add 50 to the above price and divide it by 2.
Host family, which do international students prefer? The legendary host family. Personal help intermediary found such a homestay. It is recommended not to go. On the surface, you can practice English, and someone will cook for you. Actually. . There are many problems because of personality incompatibility. Some people specialize in homestays to make money, and many people can't practice English. Some people are immigrants themselves and their English is poor. Appetite problem, RP problem. . Others clearly promised 3 meals, but actually only gave 2 meals. . And the price of at least 700+ a month is not recommended!
The heating in serviced apartments is dry in winter and hot in summer!
Condo (private apartment) is dry in winter and not too hot in summer, depending on whether the landlord likes to turn on the air conditioner.
House/townhouse heating is not particularly dry in winter, but well ventilated in summer. Some landlords can turn on the air conditioner.
The temperature in the basement is only 20+ in winter and cool and humid in summer. If you are not used to the humid environment, you may get rheumatism, especially for men.
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If you don't smoke, drink, gamble, take drugs, keep pets, have a hobby of spending special money (such as collecting valuables and loving luxury goods) and have no girlfriend. .
The rent for one person is 350 yuan per month-500 yuan rents a room on the ground. .
Most of the time, eating at home is 200 yuan (even pigs can eat)
Go out to eat 4-5 times a month (inexpensive western restaurant) 50-80
The monthly car insurance and fuel costs are 350-400. If you are not going to buy a car, buy a monthly ticket at most 120.
Go to KTV twice a month, 30-40
Mobile phone monthly subscription 40
Your own cleaning products, such as washing powder, soap and soap, 15 (generally less than 15)
Miscellaneous expenses occasionally buy clothes, change computer configuration, change light bulbs and snacks 150. It is best to bring enough clothes from China. Toronto boys' clothes are a little better, hundreds. )