Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
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Re: Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
Of course, one hesitates to get into a "who kept their children more poorly than whom?" sort of argument, but wtf, how can a student afford $475 a month in rent during term time, nevermind when the student is off to the cape?
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Re: Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
What other choice is there unless you're commuting from your parents' home? First year students living on campus pay $10,000+ for 8 months room and board. Move off campus and pay $475 a month in rent and you're not paying much different with utilities and food added in - even if you have to sign a 1 year lease. If your parents don't pay, you get loans or you get a job.
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Re: Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
They work all summer, which gives them enough money to pay a year's rent plus living expenses until Christmas. Tuition and additional living costs are made up by loans, grants and mom and dad. Picking up $1,500 by subletting over the summer is found money.
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House/apt. sharing is probably the best chance of staying anywhere near your budget if you want to live in a decent area with convenient transportation. As a single occupant, I was paying $635/month for an older "junior" 1 BR apt. 18 years ago in the Mount Pleasant Davisville area. As for no-go zones, avoid Jane & Finch at all costs! All the best in Canada hinny
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Re: Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
What other choice is there unless you're commuting from your parents' home? First year students living on campus pay $10,000+ for 8 months room and board. Move off campus and pay $475 a month in rent and you're not paying much different with utilities and food added in - even if you have to sign a 1 year lease. If your parents don't pay, you get loans or you get a job.
On consideration, chucking away $475 a month for a place where you don't live seems a luxurious way for a working man to go about things.
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Re: Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
I'm familiar with the paying, just surprised that students would enter into a lease on a place for a year. None of mine had $475*4 to put into rent in their university towns (Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver) while working their vacations away from those towns. That seems a luxurious way for a student to go about things.
On consideration, chucking away $475 a month for a place where you don't live seems a luxurious way for a working man to go about things.
On consideration, chucking away $475 a month for a place where you don't live seems a luxurious way for a working man to go about things.
My daughter is at Western in London, Ontario. She's wrapping up her first year. She lived in a Western residence and had to buy a meal plan. She didn't think much of the food so it wasn't exactly good value forking over $10K+ for 8 months room/board.
In London, the private leases for students run May 1 to April 30. My daughter and some friends signed a 1 year lease on an apartment starting May 1. The sad part is that she's going to be paying rent for almost 4 months for a place she won't be living in. Even so, it works out better for her because she found a nice place close to campus and shopping - wait until closer to classes start and you risk being in a dive far from campus. She can cook her own food and, even with a 1 year lease and paying for food/utilities, she's likely going to save money over living in uni residence. At the very worst I've calculated that she'll break even. Plus she can live in the place for the remaining 3 years of uni without having to move multiple times like she would have done if she had stayed uni residence. In addition I save money on hotels, restaurants, etc. because I can stay with her when I visit.
Last edited by MarylandNed; Apr 15th 2012 at 3:23 pm.
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Re: Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
So what did they do? If they live away from home you're going to be paying one way or another - either in uni residence or on a private lease.
My daughter is at Western in London, Ontario. She's wrapping up her first year. She lived in a Western residence and had to buy a meal plan. She didn't think much of the food so it wasn't exactly good value forking over $10K+ for 8 months room/board.
In London, the private leases for students run May 1 to April 30. My daughter and some friends signed a 1 year lease on an apartment starting May 1. The sad part is that she's going to be paying rent for almost 4 months for a place she won't be living in. Even so, it works out better for her because she found a nice place close to campus and shopping - wait until closer to classes start and you risk being in a dive far from campus. She can cook her own food and, even with a 1 year lease and paying for food/utilities, she's likely going to save money over living in uni residence. At the very worst I've calculated that she'll break even. Plus she can live in the place for the remaining 3 years of uni without having to move multiple times like she would have done if she had stayed uni residence. In addition I save money on hotels, restaurants, etc. because I can stay with her when I visit.
My daughter is at Western in London, Ontario. She's wrapping up her first year. She lived in a Western residence and had to buy a meal plan. She didn't think much of the food so it wasn't exactly good value forking over $10K+ for 8 months room/board.
In London, the private leases for students run May 1 to April 30. My daughter and some friends signed a 1 year lease on an apartment starting May 1. The sad part is that she's going to be paying rent for almost 4 months for a place she won't be living in. Even so, it works out better for her because she found a nice place close to campus and shopping - wait until closer to classes start and you risk being in a dive far from campus. She can cook her own food and, even with a 1 year lease and paying for food/utilities, she's likely going to save money over living in uni residence. At the very worst I've calculated that she'll break even. Plus she can live in the place for the remaining 3 years of uni without having to move multiple times like she would have done if she had stayed uni residence. In addition I save money on hotels, restaurants, etc. because I can stay with her when I visit.
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Re: Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
Go on the Mls.ca website put in your budget and select rental and hover over the areas on the map to see locations. Oakville has the best Go line schedule as trains run quite frequently long the lakeshore, whereas places like Markham etc the trains run only at peak times and then you have the bus in between. My husband actually drives to work from Markham to downtown and he loves the trek as it takes him 45 min max door to door going down the 404.
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Re: Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
House/apt. sharing is probably the best chance of staying anywhere near your budget if you want to live in a decent area with convenient transportation. As a single occupant, I was paying $635/month for an older "junior" 1 BR apt. 18 years ago in the Mount Pleasant Davisville area. As for no-go zones, avoid Jane & Finch at all costs! All the best in Canada hinny
Last edited by Jerseygirl; Apr 20th 2012 at 4:15 am.
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Re: Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
Go on the Mls.ca website put in your budget and select rental and hover over the areas on the map to see locations. Oakville has the best Go line schedule as trains run quite frequently long the lakeshore, whereas places like Markham etc the trains run only at peak times and then you have the bus in between. My husband actually drives to work from Markham to downtown and he loves the trek as it takes him 45 min max door to door going down the 404.
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Re: Moving to Toronto on Sunday, need advice on areas to live!
"The intersection of Oakwood Avenue and Vaughan Road is considered a notorious area, given that it has among the highest concentration of after-hour bars in Toronto".