3.Soon realizing your fantasies and realities don't align:
4.Trying to balance the real budget against whether you can live without a window big enough to install an AC unit in the summer:
5.Or a window at all. Now clicking on basement rentals:
6.Peeking into people's homes 'cause you're too cheap to get a broker:
7.Succumbing to the fact that your real options are pretty much stuck north of Bloor:
8.Aaaaaaaaaaand that you'll probably live without a window:
9.*You waking up every morning without natural light or windows 365 days out of the year*:
10.It's fine, it's fine, negotiating with yourself: It just requires a bit of cleaning and fixing-upping:
11.And the listing wasn't entirely wrong... There is a window... If I'm on my tippy toes.
12.Not living off a subway line and thinking about every-morning-streetcar-waits in the winter:
13.AND YOU PAY $900 A MONTH:
14.Oh yeah — trying to pay for rent at all lolz:
15.The effort you put in looking vs. what you actually find, always:
16.And the existential coming-to-terms with the idea that you're throwing away money every month for eternity because you could never afford to actually buy property here: