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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2012.02.15

It seems that the rental market in Toronto's gotten a lot tougher of late.

It may have been a gradual process over the past five or six years, but it's at the point now where we're only one party of several seeing any given property. And the prices!! I am not joking that anywhere with a reasonable commute in the city center is at around 3/4 of the price of something similar in Tokyo.

I'll say that again: the rental market in Toronto is closing with that of Tokyo. I am dumbfounded.

I think the search for a new apartment might have to go on an extended break.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row