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Any of you paying $5K-7K and upwards for your apartments?
- A month? What are you living in, a castle?PhanLo
- Yes a month. Just curious if any peeps in NYC or SF do so.NBQ00
- A 3 bdrm is may $6k if you're dumb. May as well get a mortgage.freedom
- yeslvl_13
- 5-7k? Fuck me, where do you live where it's that expensive?Continuity
- 2 bedroom with parking/close to BART and within a desirable hood is $5k and up.lvl_13
- ^ in SF.lvl_13
- o_O
And I thought Munich was eye-wateringly expensive ...Continuity - But everyone thinks that in you live in NYC or SF that you earn at least 200k a year.utopian
- NYC has housing options, SF not so muchrobotron3k
- Hell yeah, 190k a year plus benefits, motherfucker.DRIFTMONKEY
- yeah, it sucks. and the hoops developers need to jump through to get projects approved are insane. takes forever for anything to get built.lvl_13
- in NYC, lots of people pay $5-$7k per month for 2-3 bedroomsmonospaced
- Doesn't matter the amount you pay, it's the % you pay in relation to your pay net tax. I'm in LDN paying 50% in rent. Sucks. Prefer to pay 33% or less.shapesalad
- why not take a loan from a bank and own it yourself?? meh because you are a yay hooray assfuct!! :P pay your life away dummy!!e-pill
- i've been summoned!!o_O
- Why dont you find a 1000$ apt and save the extra 6K and retire quickly?Bennn
- Those don’t necessarily exist.monospaced
- stay the fuck there. dont need any more immigrants to nevada. or when you realize the state is fucked move to texas.deathboy
- We lived in Park Slope Brooklyn, had a 2 bed, 1 bath, garden apt. private backyard, washer dryer in-unit, and paid $3,600/month.bulletfactory
- @bullet, that apartment goes for $5k+ nowmonospaced
- Depends on how many rooms (NYC here)notype
- @mono - depends. They certainly can. But we only moved at the end of last year. Our upstairs neighbors moved down into our for the same price we were paying.bulletfactory
- I was trying to find a place in Park Slope at the end of last year, with two real bedrooms. I found nothing that was livable below $5,000.monospaced
- Anything under that was either a shithole or didn't have any real living space. Or it was a 3 floor walkup.monospaced
- Definitely feel you mono - We totally lucked out in our 2 last places - 5th st btwn 8th ave and PPW we swooped in and snagged before an open housebulletfactory
- Great place, garden apt w/d but 1.5 bedrooms - lived there 5 years, (2,800/month that gradually rose to 3,200) had twins, things got tight.bulletfactory
- Next place 12th st (btwn 8th ave and PPW) we found out about from tenant before it was on the market from park slope parents group. Super lucky (but expensive).bulletfactory
- Joining a group like that might give you some tips or an edgebulletfactory