{"id":90184,"date":"2026-06-16T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/90184\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:02:09","slug":"literally-crazy-brit-who-moved-to-canada-shocked-by-the-price-of-1-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/90184\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Literally crazy’ – Brit who moved to Canada shocked by the price of 1 thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A British expat who moved to Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada, shared her monthly living costs in a viral TikTok\"Overlooking<\/p>\n

Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada(Image: CHENG FENG CHIANG via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Relocating overseas is no small task, bringing with it unexpected financial challenges<\/a>. However, one British woman living abroad has disclosed a particular expense that left her reeling after her move to Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Louise Ware-Armstrong, a lifestyle and travel content creator who swapped the UK for Niagara Falls in Ontario, recently posted a TikTok video detailing her monthly outgoings. While rent, bills and domestic costs were roughly what she’d anticipated, one vital service proved substantially pricier than in Britain.<\/p>\n

“One of the most expensive bills in Canada is your phone plan,” she revealed in the video, which has garnered over 11,000 likes. “You cannot find a cheap phone plan anywhere.”<\/p>\n

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Canadian dollars(Image: Andrzej Rostek via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Louise revealed that her combined monthly spend on mobile, broadband and television services totals approximately 400 Canadian dollars (\u00a3215). She explained: “For my phone and my internet in my house and my TV package, so for all three of them comes to around $400 a month, which is literally crazy.<\/p>\n

“You couldn’t find a phone plan when I first moved here for less than $60 a month without the phone.”<\/p>\n

Her comments ignited discussion amongst followers, with many acknowledging this represents a substantial cost-of-living concern in Canada.<\/p>\n

Data from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission<\/a> (CRTC) shows mobile tariffs have decreased recently, though global studies consistently place Canada amongst the costlier nations for telecommunications provision.<\/p>\n

According to price comparison site WhistleOut<\/a>, the typical Canadian mobile phone bill sits at approximately CA$64 (\u00a334) each month – considerably steeper than UK rates, where regulator Ofcom<\/a> has previously indicated average monthly mobile expenditure ranges between \u00a315 and \u00a320 based on contract type.<\/p>\n

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Multiple industry analyses have consistently positioned Canada amongst the pricier nations for mobile phone provision, primarily attributed to reduced market competition and elevated infrastructure expenses.<\/p>\n

The vlogger was detailing her complete monthly expenditure following her relocation from Britain to Niagara Falls. She disclosed paying 1,650 Canadian dollars in rent for a two-bedroom property, with additional separate charges for electricity, gas and water utilities.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the expense of her phone and internet provision proved most striking, with Louise characterising the bill as amongst the most significant financial surprises encountered since moving overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British expat who moved to Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada, shared her monthly living costs in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,3780,34227,701,237,2135],"class_list":["post-90184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-people","tag-real-life","tag-tiktok","tag-travel","tag-your-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}