Apartment hunting day
Today, is Friday. Today, is also aparment hunting day. Stu and I reserved the afternoon - and evening to jog around town looking for a perfect 2 bedroom apartment under $1000.
You’d think that with that budget I’d be able to find the perfect place; not so in Toronto. The average price of a two-bedroom apartment is $1150 here, not including hydro. Toronto has the highest living costs in Canada - it’s expensive, it’s dirty (if you don’t believe me, just check the satellite images in Google Earth), it’s a city full of good neighbourhood right smack next to bad neighbourhoods, separated by 2 lane streets.
And the dilemma, is that my bf seem to hate every single one of them except for the most expensive ones. Geez, I’m the woman here! I’m the one who has to walk home late at night, and I have no fear. I have pepperspray, and thank the government for our gun control laws and strict weapon carrying laws, rapists here don’t even carry knives.
Lakeshore? Scuzzy. Downtown? Too hard to get out of. Northwest? It’s a shootings-neighbourhood. No it isn’t! It’s Martingrove & Eg, not Rexdale! Then again, I can’t argue. He’s been here all his life, and I’ve been here ten years.
Let’s just HOPE we find an apartment today that isn’t tiny, cramped, and roach infested.
May 13th, 2006 at 9:24 am
wow…apts are so much cheaper in toronto! I work in Massachusetts as a property manger for subsidized elderly housing. Some of the apts. in Waltham are going for $1500 for a studio! I hope your search goes well!
May 15th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
My goodness! What’s the average income?
In TO 2 bedrooms can go anywhere from $750 (the worst area in town, with peeling paint and cockroaches as your neighbours) to upwards of $3000.
The apartment we ended up seeing last week was a HOLE in the middle of a really nice street. There was a fridge in the living room.
May 16th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
my brother looked at an apartment in Boston once with a friend, it was 1 bdrm and the shower/bath was only 3′ long, and the toilet was next to the stove. I don’t remember what the price was, but needless to say, they didn’t take it. Makes you wonder how people can live that way.
June 26th, 2006 at 5:28 am
love the food tips. I am never on this site, but on myspace. But came across your profile and my mouth started watering. Your bf is sure lucky. I have been to Toronto, just as you described. But in Tulsa where I live. YOu can get a ghetto two bedroom for 550 or a top end for like 850