I don’t understand the crazy rents of downtown. I don’t know who made these rat holes and labeled them apartments. You're telling me somebody naming him/herself an architect has DESIGNED these holes? Don’t even think about the bachelor. The 1 bdr? Put a partition in the bachelor and there you go, oh, and 200$ more. You don’t like the filthy carpets? 100$ more for hwd floors. And don’t forget, it’s a yearly lease, and after that, god knows how much the rent is increasing. I can't find a single reason why the HRM doesn’t run a bulldozer over these stinking buildings, made probably before WW2. I don’t know why they don’t arrest the landlords. I don’t know who made these one-way tenant/landlord laws. I don’t know why they care to publish these laws and hand them in pamphlets to me with a smile, come one brother, tell me the essence in a sentence: all tenants are to bend over for the landlords to fuck them over and over, oh, and don’t forget the smile. BTW, I don’t live in downtown to be near "everything Halifax has to offer", I live here because Dal is here.

---International student with serious language and cultural barriers