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$1750 doesn't buy much rental living in Toronto

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2012.03.14

I'm still amazed at how much rents have climbed in Toronto since I left back in '05.

Today we looked at a place with peeling wallpaper, filthy carpets, a kitchen layout that I can only describe as nonsense, and an unacceptable bathroom. It was even a bit off the beaten path, about equidistant from any transit and shopping options. All for $1750 a month. Yikes.

The search continues.

rand()m quote

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

—Steven J. Gould