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RSS FeedsHow four Gen Z roommates `get squishy´ to afford a downtown lifestyle
(The Star Food)

 
 

16 april 2019 13:06:35

 
How four Gen Z roommates `get squishy´ to afford a downtown lifestyle
(The Star Food)
 


Jacob Totske has to be at least a little quiet when he comes home from his job at a King St. W. bar around 3 a.m. — his roommate is asleep in a twin bed just a foot away from his own in the bedroom they share.Another is asleep in the master bedroom down the hall. And yet another dozes in a converted den just off the living room. For these four close friends in their late teens and early 20s, the answer to living downtown while keeping rent affordable is to get “squishy.â€In a two-bedroom-plus-den, two-bathroom apartment at Church and Shuter Sts., Totske, along with his roommates Dana Delaney, Luke Avoledo and Clare Mulvale, have divided an approximately 900-square-foot apartment — and its $3,105 a month price tag — four ways.“We all signed up for ‘let’s get squishy, let’s get comfortable,’†Avoledo, 19, says.After graduating from high schools outside of Toronto, the roommates who all work or go to school in the city turned to compact living as an alternative to staying at home with their parents and commuting, an increasingly difficult choice for young people in the city.A downtown apartment, they say, gives them independence, and rooming together means they can keep rental costs down and invest more money into their lives.In a small bedroom off the front entrance, Delaney, 19, and Totske, 21, have set up two nearly identical twin beds. The room is sparsely decorated with Polaroid photos and a string of fairy lights hung above the beds. They’ve split the closet in half, same with a shelving unit — with Delaney occupying the top two shelves and Totske the bottom. A side table is squeezed between the two beds, housing scented candles and a well-used Polaroid camera. They also share a bathroom off the front hall. “As weird as it sounds, it’s worked out,†Totske says. “I don’t think we’ve really had like any actual living issues.â€Delaney, who works ...


 
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