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moving is tough

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

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

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot