PokéLife Apartments

PokéLife Apartments is an apartment building located in Jubilife City in the Sinnoh region. Ash stayed here when he first arrived at Jubilife City with his Kanto friends, Gary and Tracey.

Occupancy
PokéLife Apartments serves as a place for students of Sinnoh Academy to stay if they don't live close to the academy, mainly for those who come from other regions. They stay here during their time at the academy, making travel convenient back and forth to the academy, which is also located in Jubilife City.

They can choose their own same-gender roommate or stay alone, but it also depends on vacancy. Less rooms available might result in single-tenant rooms to be assigned a same-gender student.

Enrollment in the academy comes with either loans, scholarships, financial aid, or grants that include a room in the apartment, if they indicate that they'll need to stay there when applying. So every student at the academy is either staying at the apartment, or they indicated they have somewhere else they can stay. Some might even commute from another city/town in Sinnoh back and forth to the academy.

Students can stay at the apartment for all 4 years of the academy. After graduating, students have until the end of the summer break to move out to make room for incoming students.

There's a similar apartment building in Kalos to correspond to Kalos Academy, but it hasn't been shown in the series.

Ash's Beginnings
When Ash first arrived in Jubilife City in the beginning of the series, before meeting Alain, he went to PokéLife Apartments to meet up with his Kanto childhood friends, Gary and Tracey. Those two were recent graduates of Sinnoh Academy and were still at the apartment building before they moved back to Kanto. They reunited and let Ash stay with them while he was visiting the city. They were in Room #2162.

After meeting Alain later that day, he told Ash to meet him the next morning at Room #1219 at the apartment to start martial arts training. He did, and they trained in a small field near the apartment building.

In Room #2011, Barry, Zoey, and Paul were at Barry and Paul's apartment room discussing the Tekiyoku and their struggles with dealing with their reign. Zoey didn't stay there, but stayed by herself and constantly visited Barry and Paul. They joked around and said they'll single-handedly stop the Tekiyoku and save the world.

During the next day's training session, Alain gave Ash a break. Ash then took Alain to officially meet Gary and Tracey in their apartment room. Those two expressed their concern with Alain and wondered if this mission was safe and if they can trust him. Alain assured them everything was safe and that he really did escape the Tekiyoku. After more discussion, it was decided that Gary and Tracey would travel with them later when they come to Kanto.

On the day that Ash and Alain were set to leave on their mission, Alain was packing in his apartment. Gary and Tracey brought Ash to meet some friends of theirs, taking him to their apartment room. It was Barry, Zoey, and Paul. They heard about how Ash was chosen by Arceus to help save the world. They then became serious about helping to make the world better as well and asked if they could come with Ash and Alain. Ash said it would have to wait until they're not fighting the Tekiyoku and that they'll e-mail when they can. Barry then proposed they start their own journey while they wait and help citizens in need. They agreed to this.

Back at Gary and Tracey's room, Alain has returned and said they'd take a ferry to Lumiose City in Kalos, their first destination. Tracey called some friends of his in journalism, Gabby and Ty, to record a news segment with Alain, who explained about his upcoming mission to the world, so that people wouldn't think he was an enemy. Ash returned afterwards and asked to speak to Alain at the side of the building. Dawn was there. After a heated discussion, Ash ended up convincing Alain to let Dawn travel with them on their journey after letting him know what the Tekiyoku had done to Dawn. They left the apartments to board a ferry and make their way to Lumiose City.

It's known that some time after this, Gary and Tracey left PokéLife Apartments and moved back to Kanto.

Barry's Struggles
Barry, Zoey, and Paul were still at the apartments and were ready to start their journey to travel and help people in the world. They were also going to train because Barry wanted to become a Manipulator one day. They were set to leave in 2 hours. Zoey left to go pack.

When it was about time to leave, Barry was very excited and went to the door to leave and check to see if Zoey was ready at her room. He's then surrounded by a blue mist and it became very cold. He was then punched from behind and knocked to the ground. This turned out to be Paul using Mist of Depression. He revealed that he was actually an Ice Manipulator and a member of the Tekiyoku. A disoriented Barry couldn't form that many words. Paul left the apartments.

Later, still at the apartments, Zoey had returned and learned what happened. Barry was angry and ready to hunt Paul down. Zoey warned him not to do this, saying it's not worth stooping to his level and that Paul's probably very strong. Barry admitted that she was right and declared he would not look for Paul. Zoey stayed in Barry's apartment during this day to help him get through this.

In the middle of that night. Barry snuck to the door of his apartment and opened it. A voice is heard behind him. It was Zoey, who was waiting in the living room. Barry was determined to leave to look for Paul anyway. Zoey then actually said she would come, too, pointing out that she never unpacked. Barry was happy for Zoey's support and the two left PokéLife Apartments to start their journey.

Return to Jubilife City
After several events in the series, Zoey, Barry, and the newly recruited Kenny, returned to PokéLife Apartments, since the next year of the academy hadn't started yet, so they still had the room. Zoey had received an e-mail from Alain saying that he, Ash, and Dawn were about to come to the Sinnoh region next on their journey, so all 6 would be able to travel together in the region.

Ash, Alain, and Dawn arrived at PokéLife Apartments later that day. They went to Barry's room and met up with him, Zoey, and Kenny. This is the first time the latter 3 met Dawn in person. They told Dawn they had helped to clean up the remains of her burnt house earlier and that they'll help her out when this mission is over. They then discuss upcoming plans for them to travel through the region. After more days of training and relaxing, they leave the apartments and Jubilife City to go to their next destination with Plates, Snowpoint City.

Other
In Episode 31, Barry had a flashback to a moment from 3 years ago. Barry and Zoey came to PokéLife Apartments to Paul's room, which he shares with Barry. Zoey brought over one of the lemon-flavored ice cream bars that Paul, 45 minutes earlier, had said he used to love getting from Hailey's when walking home on his own from Sinnoh Academy. That store was now closed down as of yesterday.

Reacting to Paul's confusion, Barry and Zoey said they had found out where the store owner lived. They went there and discovered he had some of the ice cream bars stored away. He gave a whole box of them to Barry and Zoey. Barry then asked him to come study with them and help plan their hangout for Barry's upcoming 16th birthday in 3 days. Paul smiled and agreed to come with them.

Roon Numbers
Note that room numbers are not a literal indication of the number of rooms and that they begin at different areas depending on the separate building being occupied. The constant thing that remains is that the first number indicates the floor (1, 2, or 3) the room is on.

The next two numbers start at a random area when the physical building structure changes to a different one, but all rooms in that building go in order from wherever those second two numbers start. For example, room #1582 and #3585 are in the same apartment building, since both the second and third numbers match (58).

The last number indicates the room placement in the building, meaning one that ends in 1 is the first room on that floor of that building, and vice versa for 9, with 9 as the maximum number of rooms per floor per building. So, #1582 would be the second room on the first floor of the building that's numbered as 58, while #3585 is the fifth room on the third floor of that same building.

Confirmed Residents
This list does not take into account whether the person is still iving there or not. It just indicates who, as revealed in the series, has ever lived at the apartments and the room number they have/had. Everyone either stayed by themselves or had a roommate, and each person in the rooms is listed.
 * Gary Oak and Tracey Sketchit: Room #2162
 * Barry Suzuki and Paul Fields: Room #2011
 * Zoey Williams: Room #1018
 * Alain Takahata: Room #1219

Trivia

 * Zoey's room number wasn't mentioned in the series before this wiki page was created. Her room number was decided by Nocturnal Jay as he first wrote the page. Note that she stayed in the same building as Barry and Paul, just on the first floor instead of the second, where Barry's room was located.