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Young people can’t afford to leave the nest Nick DeRyck hopes to move out of his parents house by 30
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t 24, Nick DeRyck has done everything anyone could expect of him as a young adult. After graduating from Newmarket’s Huron Heights Secondary School, he completed a two-year police foundations course, choosing Seneca College’s nearby King campus, in part so he could live at home to save on expenses. While he plans on a career as a police officer, he now works at Cardinal Golf Club in King for his third season, recently wrapped a part-time summer job with a beer company and will once again get a job for the winter, hopefully this time something more careeroriented than the snowplowing jobs he’s had in the past. While he has a couple of hobbies that cost him money — buying guitars, purchasing car parts for his 1986 Firebird and playing goalie on a hockey team — DeRyck has saved about $12,000 towards buying a home. But he wonders if he’ll ever have enough
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Despite his education, holding down a job and saving money, Newmarket’s Nick DeRyck wonders when he will be able to afford to move out of his parents’ home and get a place of his own.
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