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What I don't get is, why do people lease apartments (bachelors at that) for $875/month, for 12 months, when they only need the apartment for, at the most, 9 months? But lets say they only need it for 8 months, they still have to go through the trouble and stress of finding someone to sublet for the other four months, and if they don't find someone to sublet they're left paying for the four months of vacancy. On top of that, it may be "close" to UofT campus, but it's still a good 15minute walk to touch the border of our campus, and then another 15minute walk to your class (depending on which corner you're closest to). Then theres the furniture and food part of living. And even if you do find someone to sublet for the 4 months during the summer, $875 x 8 = $7000 JUST FOR LIVING. Plus whatever hidden fees are left behind, plus onetime furniture costs (I'm sure plenty of people are content with a TV dinner table and a leftover lazy boy, but I'm not.), and then the monthly food of lets say $280 (works to about under $10 a day, add in an extra $200/month+ if you party on a regular basis [even at once a week, $50/week]), let's be generous and middle it out to about $400/month on food+partying, $400 x 8 = $3200. $7000 + $3200 = $10,200.. and this is for a BACHELOR PAD on Elm St... not including the "one time" furniture fee. And this isn't even including my sporatic shopping sprees.
Of course theres the whole "you don't have to deal with shitty Sodexho food and shitty floormates,"
plus you get plenty of privacy (don't know how much those paperthin walls can hold back though) and your own washroom (gag, try cleaning that yourself). Oh, and you're not under any "rules" (not that half of them are reinforced, but whatever.)
I never actually worked all this out until now, and I'm sure me working all this out in a matter of minutes on el-jay isn't remotely legit, but unless I find something damn nice (like Mok's $1000/month condo he's sharing with his sister /drool walk in closet /drool), then I highly doubt I'm going to be getting my own apartment.
I don't know if sharing a house with other people is an option, we all know how much I don't get along with people.
I guess living on Rez isn't so horrible. If only I could get my own double room again...
Of course theres the whole "you don't have to deal with shitty Sodexho food and shitty floormates,"
plus you get plenty of privacy (don't know how much those paperthin walls can hold back though) and your own washroom (gag, try cleaning that yourself). Oh, and you're not under any "rules" (not that half of them are reinforced, but whatever.)
I never actually worked all this out until now, and I'm sure me working all this out in a matter of minutes on el-jay isn't remotely legit, but unless I find something damn nice (like Mok's $1000/month condo he's sharing with his sister /drool walk in closet /drool), then I highly doubt I'm going to be getting my own apartment.
I don't know if sharing a house with other people is an option, we all know how much I don't get along with people.
I guess living on Rez isn't so horrible. If only I could get my own double room again...