Rooms to rent

A man describes the experience of cohabitation with other people during the initial period of his stay in Canada.

Res.: That is, having your cousin here, how did that help you when you came?
G.Ο.: When I came I had somewhere to stay. I stayed for six months, we stayed together. Then I left, because we couldn’t be together forever. He also had his girlfriend then. Then they got married. I rented a room. When I came the rooms weren’t, they weren’t rented like they used to in the past. In the past, in a house like mine, there lived together even three families. I experienced such things in ’70. After eight months that I stayed alone on rent, in a room, sorry, I decided to live alone in… to find one and I found a basement three and a half and I lived alone at least and in… you say it’s life… if you are free inside the house, you can do whatever you want, because when two and three rooms are rented and there are ten people in a house. It was difficult and I experienced that, but for a short time. For six months I experienced it.
ΕΡ.: And, that is, that which you experienced for six months, do you remember where that house was?
G.Ο.: Yes. It was at Hudson and Saint-Joseph. Parallel to Park Avenue.
Res.: And where did you live, so many families together and so many people together…
G.Ο.: We didn’t live with families. One family and three friends, three girls lived and I had one room myself. That is, the two sisters lived in one room, the other girl lived in a third, myself, in a second, myself in a third and the family which also had a child, they had two rooms because the houses there were large but, apologies, going to the toilet was an issue if it was occupied by someone else.