Students to share expensive flats
Haven’t students always had to share apartments? Radio-Canada writes about this as if it’s a new thing.
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EmilyG 20:26 on 2021-05-04 Permalink
It was certainly a common thing back when I was a university student in 2003-2007.
Blork 21:33 on 2021-05-04 Permalink
Definitely not new, but more necessary now than in the past I think. Also more of an issue because some younger people are a bit more… um… used to feeling special (?) than kids of previous generations. (Not all of course, but the phenomenon of helicopter parenting has gone from edge case to almost standard.)
I recently did a back-of-an-envelope calculation regarding my first Montreal apartment. It was a 2BR 4-1/2 in the McGill Ghetto, and I think I paid $525/month. That was actually on the high end I soon found out, as people farther east (Plateau, etc.) were easily paying $100/month less. (I figured $100 a room was about average at the time.) That $525 is roughly equivalent to $1240 now. Can you get a 2-BR 4-1/2 in the McGill Ghetto for $1240 today? Maybe. But it would probably be a dump.
jeather 21:44 on 2021-05-04 Permalink
The only people I knew who lived alone in Montreal as students lived in very tiny 1 1/2s.
Ephraim 09:57 on 2021-05-05 Permalink
It’s not a new thing. I didn’t go to university here, but when I did got to university, I shared. Smallest share was 2 of us. Largest was 6 of us.
I’ve had parents approach me, asking me to buy and rent out houses/rooms for students, knowing that I can get someone in there to fumigate and clean every once in a while. Apparently, some of their offspring don’t realize that you are supposed to wash your sheets, etc. Basically, they want a contact that ensures that their offspring get hosed down and a place for them to call when they need help. Probably one of the only ways that I would agree to be a landlord… parents depositing the rent directly. I hate chasing after people for payment or worse, having to engage with people for payment.