evandyk
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I am 43! 1200 square feet is plenty for three people, even in a pandemic.
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evandyk
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But that is pretty unaffordable for most people these days. Our last apartment, 750 sf in the Annex, would have been a real challenge with a baby.
I'm older than both of you 
So long as I have a space where I can close the door and not hear sports on the TV, I'm good.
So long as I have a space where I can close the door and not hear sports on the TV, I'm good.evandyk
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I don’t need a lot of space for myself, but we have a lot of Lego these days. The other day, he made me build a tower crane, which is all we can see out of our windows.
Yes, having a child changes things for sure! They do take up space
gabe
Senior Member
My house is that size, it works. The apratment i grew up in was only 900 square feet. i know people with young kids, stuck in a tiny 750 square foot shoe box, they had to move out of the city to a larger unit, it saved their mental health and marriage.
evandyk
Senior Member
We chose to move to 1150 sf in St. Lawrence instead of the suburbs. The difference is night and day. I grew up in the countryside, where space was endless.
Undead
Senior Member
I'll echo this. The entire world lives in apartments; there's nothing inherently wrong with them.
There's also this toxic false dichotomy in Canada that an apartment must be crap, while a detached house is the way to go.
It seems like that flawed assumption has made apartment design crappy and made people dislike apartments in a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And it's not just about area. Our floorplans and building designs don't make for attractive units. I cringe a bit every time I hear someone complaining about apartments as if they're an inherently bad living situation. Just sounds like good ol' Canadian exceptionalism to me: well if we can't do it, it's not possible.
edit to add: and you don't even need much space. My family's cottage is 1,300 sq.ft. (excluding the 600 sq.ft. unfinished basement) and it's plenty of space for a family of three or four. The 2,000-2,500 sq.ft. 5-6 bedroom McMansions that we started building in the 80s are ridiculous wasteful. Even 1,800 sq.ft. is excessive for a one child family. Yes, the usual caveats about multi-generation families.
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evandyk
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Our 1150 sf apartment actually has much larger living spaces (living, dining room, entrance hall, etc.) than a lot of my friends' houses in Leslieville, Bloorcourt, etc. The bedrooms and bathrooms are smaller, but it's way more efficient overall in terms of the parts you actually use all the time.
slickpete83
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4645 Jane St. Toronto Condo owners in aging building face $14M in repairs. If they can't pay their part they risk losing their homes
108 days on the market lol..
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Admiral Beez
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This is exactly where the owners of the glass walled condos will be in 15-20 years when the half life of the window is up and the insulation values drop.
evandyk
Senior Member
It's possible. At the same time, though, there are hundreds (thousands?) of buildings of a similar vintage out there in Toronto, and this one is in the news because its story is unusual.
Admiral Beez
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The older condos from the 1960s to the early 1990s are the ones you want, built like fortresses. You have to settle for smaller knockout windows, that are easily and cheaply replaced. Today's condos are like today's anything, built fast, cheap and utilizing cheap China-origin components. Much of the glass used in Toronto's condos comes from China, and it's known to be shoddy.
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These articles are from 2012-2015. Imagine how much argon gas has escaped between the panes since then.
evandyk
Senior Member
There are communally owned buildings around the world, some of which are hundreds of years old, but it's true that you've managed to dig up three articles over 10 years that criticize the model.
There will always be individual buildings that have serious problems. If that's news to you, don't even think of buying a house!
There will always be individual buildings that have serious problems. If that's news to you, don't even think of buying a house!
DKB
New Member
Looks like something is fishy here with the condo board
Where is the money from the reserve fund?
What happened with reserve fund study, which (I think) has to be done every 3 years...