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what does 2475 dollars get you in Toronto

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2019.07.13

I saw a (badly written) article about new apartment building construction in Toronto that contained this line:

"bringing the cost of an average-sized unit of 794 square feet to $2,475". 794 square feet would be a livable one-bedroom apartment or a very cramped two bedroom e.g.:

Just to pay the rent you'd need to be making about $40,000 a year before taxes. That's the average salary of an adult in this city.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.