In Vancouver $1000 gets you a studio basement den. A duplex 1 bedroom is like $1800
From the article:
"nine-bedroom home, dubbed “The Castle” by the 14 students who share the property, is apparently owned by an Afghani pop artist, according to Boodhoo."
A 9 bedroom house - just imagine the size of that. Not a nightmare, but something like Tony Stark lifestyle.
Edit
Oh I misread - a room is $1000. In that case it's not that much of a great deal. At first I thought it was $1000 for the whole building which would put it in "super cheap pricing" territory
Campustowns have lots of big houses like this. It's kind of cool to walk through the neighborhood, they're like stereotypical houses but blown up by 150%
After a few years of being lived in by 19 year olds it will probably lose the tony stark sheen.
for a 9 room, there's probably at least 2 kitchens and 4-6 bathrooms.
From the way the picture looks, it's a whole house.
In Toronto, we have these rooming houses that are teeny tiny 24 people rooming, about 50-100 square foot each, in a space that has 1 shared kitchen and half a bathroom (a washroom with toilet + a separate unconnected closet that serves as a shower, so you can't go potty and take a shower in one space) and they charge $800-1000 per person.
Personally I disagree. You get some economy of scale the more people you rent with, because at any given time a lot of people will be out and about or in their rooms. So each individual gets to enjoy a lot more of the shared area (except maybe the kitchen; there are probably enough bathrooms and it's not hard to figure out how to share those). I'm thinking about things like patios/yards, living rooms, home theaters, exercise rooms.
Keep in mind that they might only get a room, but it's probably a pretty damn big room. And otherwise nice.
Not sure I'd take that tradeoff at my current age, but considering I lived in a shoebox with a shared bathroom during College for maybe 3/4 the price post-inflation, I'd have taken it in a heartbeat.
I have heard stories of groups of furries in Vancouver renting out these mansions and apparently it works really nicely. I guess the key part of sharing a house would be making sure to share with people you get along well with.
