I literally pay $100 more to live in a much shittier garage than this...
Rent is getting absolutely disgusting. I was JUST getting a promotion that would allow me to afford a house and then COVID fucked literally everything... The WFH movement started in full swing and bye bye affordable housing... Now I'm permanently locked out of the housing market as a blue collar piece of shit.
The rate of increase is mind blowing. I used to rent a 1br luxury apartment for $1100 back in 2016.
We rented a sizable 2-bedroom apartment in a good area of North Hollywood, CA's arts district for $1200 a month 10 years ago. I don't even want to know how much it's going for now.
They probably renovated to split it into 2 tiny apartments that they rent for double or triple the price each.
About 15 years ago, we had 1200 sq ft apartment with a nice deck that overlooked some woods and ponds at the bottom of the hill. It was $800 a month and we afforded it just fine. Now, I make almost double what I made then, and we live in a 900 sq ft apartment that stares down into a parking lot, has creaky floors, barely functioning appliances, and we pay $2000. The old apartment was $5.2k a month last time I checked (early 2022).
In Switzerland I could kill someone and have a better living arrangement than in this picture (look up swiss prisons)
I pay 1k for roughly 740 square feet / 69 m2. Covid didn't change anything. It's wild that things can be so vastly different for two similary rich countries (I kinda assume the post is in the USA).
I might have to commit a crime in Switzerland. Is criminal tourism such a thing?
This varies widely across the US. Some areas are like this while others have booming economies with plenty of housing. It's a big place.
Where are these magical areas?
Same here, me and my GF make enough money now to afford housing 3 years ago, but now we're priced out of even renting! it's bullshit.
It's so gross that we literally need 2 incomes, sometimes more just to afford a place to sleep... I'm perpetually single so I need to do it all solo. Good luck I hope you guys find something soon!
Gas station attendants could afford houses while their wives stayed at home and did the housework. That's how ridiculous it's gotten.
With kids!
I'm confused. The WFH movement should be flushing people AWAY from city centers, which should mean less pressure in already expensive areas. That's something that should make affordable housing more common.
Those people go move to the small towns with limited housing, and jack up the prices there. Happened in Ontario, houses are passing a million dollars over an hour away from Toronto, when those houses used to go in the low hundred thousands.
It's the opposite for everyone who doesn't live in a city. Long Island NY is already expensive on a regular day, all the people leaving NYC for the suburbs drove prices through the roof. It's a similar story in places outside of cities all over the country.
That's the cost of my mortgage, and I have a 6 bedroom house.
How is Wyoming this time of year?
It's actually super pretty. Give me a stable internet connection and I could live in the back woods of Wyoming happily.
Starlink could probably do that for you!
I'm not sure I want to have anything to do with a service Musk is involved in.
Don't get me wrong, we have Starlink as a backup circuit at the office and the speeds are fantastic, but I wouldn't base my relocation on it.
Unless there's more shown than in that photo, that's a not a 1 BR, that's a studio. And a crappy and overpriced one at that.
It says "1 bed" not "1 BR" lol.
This kicks ass , but price range doesn't
Lol right? I would love to be able to open up one of my walls on a nice day. But yeah, fuck that price for a garage
I'd be worried about insulation (really worried), but otherwise this would be fantastic as a bachelor pad if it were about a third of the price.
As it stands, what the fuck
Agreed. Seconded on the what the fuck and the insulation issues. This should be a $300 apartment for desperate people. Instead, it’s a landlord exploiting people and exacerbating the housing crisis for profit. Very landlord-y.
$1,200 Christ on a bike the audacity hahaha that's worth like $300 MAX
It's very easy to replace a garage door with a wall and a regular door. Unless you don't want people to know about your illegal apartment scheme.
Landlords provide housing the same way that ticket scalpers provide concert tickets
It has a garage!
Unless you can drive the bed, I don't think it's gonna serve very well as a garage.
you could store a Fisher Price car, that counts right?
Totally missed opportunity for a Murphy bed. You could put it up and have room to park.
The garage seems perfect for getting a motorcycle in and out of the house, although the grime from the tires might be a problem...
Landlords are hot garbage.
I remember my 1 bedroom apartment I paid 400 a month on in the early aughts fondly. My rent is almost 2K now.
I fondly remember renting a 5BR house in the early '90s for $500/mo (total) with four other dudes.
Easy to move in with such a large door
I pay 3k for my place... This seems generous.
We, are so fucked, everyone.
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