In honour of receiving the 90 day notice of my lease expiring I spent 90 minutes today combing through online listings for 1 and 2 bedroom apartments in Toronto.
I noticed two things.
1. There are a lot of places for rent in Toronto. Lots. I wish I could've narrowed my search on ViewIt further. For 1 and 2 bedroom unfurnished apartments in my price range in West Toronto I got 136 hits. I'll need Ginny to just tell me which ones she'd even consider inhabiting and go from there.
2. This fucking suburb is so overpriced that when I add to my rent the cost of local transit (i.e., the bus that gets me to where I can take Toronto transit to work) I'm paying exactly what I'd be paying for the same kind of place in the city. Yes, this place that takes at least an hour and a half to get back to by transit from a downtown evening event like a concert or play, this place that doesn't have the facilities to have more than 3 concerts OR plays occuring on the same evening, where there's only 1 grocery store in walking distance and getting to the liquor store requires a car, is not substantially cheaper than the city where every day you've got your pick of cultural events and supermarkets and can get back home for a $2 fare in not much more time than it'd take if you took the car. Have I mentioned that I live in the ostensible "downtown" part of this city? As far as Mississauga goes, I'm where it's at. Something is very wrong in the world.
I'm so looking forward to leaving this place.
I noticed two things.
1. There are a lot of places for rent in Toronto. Lots. I wish I could've narrowed my search on ViewIt further. For 1 and 2 bedroom unfurnished apartments in my price range in West Toronto I got 136 hits. I'll need Ginny to just tell me which ones she'd even consider inhabiting and go from there.
2. This fucking suburb is so overpriced that when I add to my rent the cost of local transit (i.e., the bus that gets me to where I can take Toronto transit to work) I'm paying exactly what I'd be paying for the same kind of place in the city. Yes, this place that takes at least an hour and a half to get back to by transit from a downtown evening event like a concert or play, this place that doesn't have the facilities to have more than 3 concerts OR plays occuring on the same evening, where there's only 1 grocery store in walking distance and getting to the liquor store requires a car, is not substantially cheaper than the city where every day you've got your pick of cultural events and supermarkets and can get back home for a $2 fare in not much more time than it'd take if you took the car. Have I mentioned that I live in the ostensible "downtown" part of this city? As far as Mississauga goes, I'm where it's at. Something is very wrong in the world.
I'm so looking forward to leaving this place.
VIEW 6 of 6 COMMENTS
legionnaire:
Everyone seems to be moving.... I'm staying in my place. And quite happy about that, to be honest. Just out of curiousity - what constitutes and expensive toronto apartment?
unnecessaryz:
Epilexcellent is such an awesome new word that I'm going to use it to describe every instance in which my brother wakes me up in the middle of the night with a seizure.