Coming Soon…
How fast time flies! After almost a month of traveling, I will finally be moving up to Toronto in less than two weeks. I found a sweet apartment up there and of course all I can think about if where furniture is going to go, what artwork I should bring, etc etc. Its a bit of a fixer upper, Ill definitely be painting the walls and doing a LOT of bleaching, but its a true one-bedroom (rather than a studio), which means I can entertain, and its on the cutest tree-lined block in the Little Italy area of Toronto, around College and Bathurst…a New York-eque neighborhood chock full of little coffee shops, bars and boutiques.
my new block
The apartment looks really sad right now, so I wont post any photos of the actual space, but Ill definitely post some before and afters post-makeover. It was so much harder than I anticipated to find a spot that was even barely suitable. I thought the minute I crossed the GWB I would leave dungeon-like apartments and penny pinching landlords behind. But not so much! I spent a full week refreshing Craigslist and ViewIt.ca every 5 minutes before I found this place in the final hour. Granted, I had narrowed my search to maybe a 5×2 block square where I was willing to live, and I was only looking for a 1-bed or studio, but I was still shocked at the prices and competition. I guess desireable is desireable anywhere you go, and people are still willing to pay for it. It made me wonder if the urban/metropolitan rental market has held in part because people would rather cut dining and drinking out, and then pay more for a decent living space because they see themselves spending more time there. I remember when I rented my NYC pad, my rationalle was that I would never actually be there, and I would certaintly not be entertaining. Now, I want to be able to actually find value in my apartment by actually being able to truly use it, for more than just a bed and shower.
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