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Toronto-Age |OT4| Molested by a Burger Priest
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Your lack of avatar is disturbing to me.
I'm gonna miss the Kessel gif.
Dark times when I found that gif to represent my love of Kessel.
His first season with us and people were already shitting all over him because of how bad the season was going. I took it upon myself to turn the negativity into positivity whenever he'd score and it just kinda caught on. :lol
You can use it when he scores on the Leafs next season :'(
looking for affordable apartments downtown shouldn't be this hard, should it Toronto-GAF? 
Splitting hairs over trying to find something half decent. Pretty much anything below $1700/mo is either a crackhouse or debatably downtown.
btw OP was pretty useful with it's links to various sites
Splitting hairs over trying to find something half decent. Pretty much anything below $1700/mo is either a crackhouse or debatably downtown.
btw OP was pretty useful with it's links to various sites
Snakes & Lattes sitcom in the works. Canadian TV.
looking for affordable apartments downtown shouldn't be this hard, should it Toronto-GAF?
Splitting hairs over trying to find something half decent. Pretty much anything below $1700/mo is either a crackhouse or debatably downtown.
btw OP was pretty useful with it's links to various sites
We're at St Clair and Bathurst, which technically isn't 'downtown', but we're 2 minutes from the subway which is three stops to St George. Paying $1,100 per month inclusive. Previous apartment was in Swansea (even further out), but only $845 inclusive. Both are really nice areas with a ton of green space, which is important to me being a dog owner.
Really, I'd never want to live in the core. As long as you're along the subway line in the old City of Toronto you're not going to have to commute very far. Living along streetcar routes (ie; 501) as your primary form of commuting downtown can be a bit more of an adventure.
I'd recommend not being adverse to older low rise apartment buildings either. As long as they're well maintained, they are a good no frills option to live in. You're not getting your gym, pool, or impressive lobby you'll have in a condo, or new development, but you're not paying for it either then.
The entire show takes place by the front door because the main characters can't get inside due to it always being full.
Junior Mint
Member
looking for affordable apartments downtown shouldn't be this hard, should it Toronto-GAF?
Splitting hairs over trying to find something half decent. Pretty much anything below $1700/mo is either a crackhouse or debatably downtown.
btw OP was pretty useful with it's links to various sites
I can't even find a studio for less than $1400.
Dr Campino
Member
Well I took advantage of that promo code and bought myself some Pan Am Games tickets. I'll be checking out both Sunday sessions of rugby sevens, from 10a-2p and 4p-8p. Go is free, so is TTC. Came to $50 total for both events, I'm pretty pleased.
looking for affordable apartments downtown shouldn't be this hard, should it Toronto-GAF?
Splitting hairs over trying to find something half decent. Pretty much anything below $1700/mo is either a crackhouse or debatably downtown.
btw OP was pretty useful with it's links to various sites
Eh, in a huge city like Toronto I can understand it being a bit difficult to find reasonably priced apartments downtown. Any particular reason you don't look at spots just outside of downtown?
(Not being from Toronto, what streets do you define as being the border to downtown? Bloor / Yonge / Spadina / Front?)
Face it Tiger..
Banned
looking for affordable apartments downtown shouldn't be this hard, should it Toronto-GAF?
Splitting hairs over trying to find something half decent. Pretty much anything below $1700/mo is either a crackhouse or debatably downtown.
btw OP was pretty useful with it's links to various sites
tbh I want to to move to hamilton or Mississauga
till I can get the capital to move to BC after I finish college.
Junior Mint
Member
Lol, reading about this whole transit plebiscite in Vancouver that got voted down with 62% no. They were trying to increase sales tax by 0.5% to add funding to Translink. I'm just thinking, man, in Toronto people hate TTC so much even though (I believe) they have better management, lower executive pay, AND less funding than Translink in BC. If TTC even dared to try to ask for a sales tax increase for more funding, they'd probably get torn apart here, haha.
KnightHart
Member
Huh, legitimately did not expect this sort of announcement from the TTC
I wonder how they'll try to counter attack the inevitable and potential fraud attempts though. I wonder if they'll have some fancy NFC scanner that just checks the ticket.
Yeah I don't care about any of those amenities, I just want a cheap place with good public transit access. Why are basements discouraged (RE: OP), though? It seems the money you save is pretty significant; I guess finding what areas are good, and which are bad is a nightmare considering those pockets are everywhere.
Well, it doesn't necessarily have to be downtown-downtown, but I want to be close because my university is downtown, and it's also about balancing distance against a monthly TTC cost if you end up requiring that anyways. Those borders are roughly the ones me and my roomie are using.
I'm coming from Brampton so I really have little context for what are good areas to look in, and it seems like options are always minimal and you're looking at $1700 with amenities or not. By the time you get to tour a place 6 other people saw it a week ago. It's the first time I'm looking for a place of my own and it really is the most stressful thing in the world.
I warn people against basements, because it's even more of a crap shoot than a regular shittly run apartment. It's mostly an owner issue. People that own the house often have a tough time respecting the basement as your space. If there's 'shared laundry' and it happens that they have to come into the basement to use it, bail. A lot of people are just trying to cover their new house they can't afford too and renting out their basement as the solution. You'll find most won't be up to code and you can insert any variety of issues from leaks, to pests to heating issues. You surely can find great basement apartments from good people, but it may be difficult. I'd ask for reference from previous tenants and if possible, start on a month to month lease.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Dammit! And here I was gonna trap him. Thanks a lot, EM. Thanks...!
I just passed Dundas and Manning and saw "Hero Video Games," are they notable for anything? Also, further on at Dovercourt I saw this place called Junked Food Co. I'm getting a grilled cheese donut with like doritos on it. Hopefully this is good. They just opened in February.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
And no AC. Just heat in the winter.
there is AC but the basement is actually quite cool
You want to pay $200+/month for internet?
For gigabit internet, sure.
I already pay $150 and have been considering having a line fed to my house by cogeco data services (pricey) but figured they were close to rolling out because of some random deployments in the GTA.
I have been waiting for FTTH for nearly a decade since the initial announcement of rollouts by Bell Aliant in Quebec.
Also its apparently $150 with unlimited bandwidth. Yowza.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Jesus. We are a third world country when it comes to Internet. Korea would already have that speed and be like 40 dollars CAD. And this was like a decade ago.
I'm convinced every one of those people are just mocking homophobes and the people who believe them are idiots.
Wind has a contract for TTC subway cell phone service
Face it Tiger..
Banned
Uber won guys
The court ruled in favor of Ridesharing services.
just got it in my email.
The court ruled in favor of Ridesharing services.
just got it in my email.
BigJonsson
Member
You'll all regret it when you can't get a ride in this town from someone who isn't a rapist.
Face it Tiger..
Banned
Are you joking?
Face it Tiger..
Banned
Sounds like another meetup is in order.
I am (almost) always free for meetups around the Annex. If you hunt monsters, all the better.
By the way, if you count the Tsilon, Fan Expo, Monster Hunter, Playstation events and other meetups, we're like, triple even UK's meetup total. There is no need to worry, we're not falling behind anytime soon.
By the way, if you count the Tsilon, Fan Expo, Monster Hunter, Playstation events and other meetups, we're like, triple even UK's meetup total. There is no need to worry, we're not falling behind anytime soon.
community is better anyway!
ProfessorMoran
Member
Downtown isn't affordable, try Finch and Yonge or Sheppard and Yonge, even St Clair and Yonge might be slightly pricey but not as expensive as renting downtown.looking for affordable apartments downtown shouldn't be this hard, should it Toronto-GAF?
Splitting hairs over trying to find something half decent. Pretty much anything below $1700/mo is either a crackhouse or debatably downtown.
btw OP was pretty useful with it's links to various sites
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Mah....blood...sug-
Hmmm...I should be good unless I'm taking vacation and going somewhere.