youre WAY too angry… and your comments are comical – upscale is Lansdown or Ossington? you should look up what “upscale” means.

I do, however, agree with you about people complaining about rent downtown – if its too expensive, live elsewhere – own your life instead of excuses.

Another thing I noticed is there is a lot of competition to chase after employment that satisfies a reflection of their image and even if it pays less. I think there’s more motivation to have the bragging rights to be part of something that looks appealing to others in their scene over whats practical for career growth or what pays a better salary. And I definitely think these companies especially in creative industries know this and take advantage of underpaying people due to knowing the long line of others willing to do it even if its not going to get you ahead financially.

meanwhile while they barely can afford rent, pay off student debt, most certainly cannot afford houses, while the slightly older and more established generations are obsessed with their image of being able to say they are successful and proving so by “owning” real estate. again psychological, instead of doing the math and following through with what makes sense financially they rather pay the price to get in over thier heads and have a lifetime of debt to fullfill thier image of success. and well just add nothing lesser than a Bmw, Audi or a Landrover to the monthly payments aswell.

everyone is apparently struggling but I still see 1-2 hour waits to get a seat to eat at the latest overpriced restaurant featured on vice munchies. All psychological, most people are sheep even when these hipsters put on a front like they are expressing themselves as if they are some sort of “individual” they are all the fucking same. they say the city has more soul but I feel like majority of the people in this city are selling thier damn soul completely away. this place is becoming a joke.

Toronto too expensive – they live downtown because they can’t afford to drive and much of the Toronto area is prohibitive to get around without a car. Transit costs aren’t subsidized enough (compared to other cities) and not enough has been constructed. It’s not like the old days when you could just do all of your own maintenance. Even the used cars are all computerized, you need to take the car into a mechanic to run a diagnostic for much of it. Too many of the mechanics are ripping people off and people say “go to a mechanic you can trust”. Right… so how do you know they’re a mechanic you can trust without them ripping you off? Plus have you seen insurance rates for young people? The competition for used cars jacked the prices up for years, so even that wasn’t a significant way to save money. If you’re struggling on low wages these days, you just don’t drive, so location is everything. It’s not even about the premium of the location anymore, it’s simply survival.

Wages are stagnant in Toronto that requesting a $0.25 raise from your employer would likely cause you to be fired, but the rent is very expensive in Toronto, especially in downtown Toronto, that a CBC news report reported that a 20-something Millennial female on Disability is complaining that she only receives $1,128 a month on Disability welfare, but her rent is $1,100 in downtown Toronto. There was another university-age female who was complaining that she was paying $1,600 a month rent in downtown Toronto.

But the point is that someone on Disability welfare can live in a cheaper area in Toronto for $600-800 for the similar apartment. That person is paying an extra $300-$500 premium to live in downtown Toronto. Same goes for a university student; they don’t need to pay upper class rental to live in Toronto.

Toronto is a declining city, in that the rich get richer, but the poor get poorer, but Millennials take the cake that with their very low wages, they are complaining that renting in the downtown core of Toronto is too damn high!

You only have to read the daily stories in the Toronto news only to notice that people are becoming poorer in smug liberal Toronto, that they are resorting to organized crime to survive. Toronto is a declining city, and the crime is only growing that nearly every day, in a city of 3 million people, there are at least 3 or 4 drive-bys or stabbings that are organized crime related. Toronto is failure for the middle class and working classes of citizenry.

Toronto is a smug liberal paradise if you’re a smug liberal living in a secluded enclave community like Bridle Path, downtown Toronto or even the upscale areas of Ossington-Lansdowne-Old Mill where you can call the police on someone who “looks suspicious” in your street.

Toronto is home to Big Red too, that repulsive social activist, a by-product of smug Liberal Toronto.

On the record, Ontario Conservatives are no better too; Mike Harris cut welfare rates by 20%-50% while the cost of living in Canada was increasing by almost 5%-15% per year because of a falling Loonie from 1994-1999, ultimately in 2002 when the Loonie bottomed at 61 cents US equivalent currency.