$1000 is still a helluva-lot for a room imo.. Also sharing with 13 other people, sounds like a nightmare.
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
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.
After a few years of being lived in by 19 year olds it will probably lose the tony stark sheen.
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.