Relocating to Toronto
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East of downtown along Queen or Dundas is cheaper than the west, and a bit more mature. Leslieville, Riverdale. You won't get much for $800 unless you are ok with a basement apartment.
You might also look into the Annex. Student area in the west, south of Bloor. You could find a basement apartment there for $800 I bet.
And you might look in Parkdale or on Roncesvales in "West Queen West". It's an uber trendy area crawling with hipsters and the homeless. You could find a total dump there for that much, and it's pretty close to your work.
The Gay Village is pretty cheap, right downtown and lots of fun. Parts of it are really seedy though.
A last resort would be the Beach but that's getting pretty far east and a bit too close to Scarborough where, I hear, if you spend too much time, you start calling everybody 'guy'.
My first place was three years ago in Little India. Big one bedroom for $900 plus. Great food, but it's a bit of a dead spot in the winter and a drag for public transit. You basically have to transfer twice to get anywhere. You want to avoid that, it's a major time vampire. Try to live somewhere where you can take one line directly to work. Also, a good rule of thumb is if there's a streetcar line on a street, there's a good amount of 'life' like cafés and bars etc.