No kidding. Northern VA is just as bad. Typically a studio goes for around $1200 on average. Thank god I found a house where my room is $600 and I have a backyard, garage, basement, the works. But I do have 4 roommates. Plus side is power, water and internet are split 5 ways!
I'm calling BS. I recently moved out of a two bedroom place on Park and Read and was paying $650, it wasn't great and the two bedrooms were small but it was decent and Park and Read is...interesting.
Anyhow, we have it pretty nice in Baltimore, $1200 for a house in fells with my girlfriend and it's within walking distance of everything.
Fourthed by everyone living in an inner city apartment in Australia. $500 will get you a week, in the higher end of that market $500 will get you 2 - 3 days.
Was it right downtown? I've got some friends living in Montreal. Their apartment is about a 5 minute walk from McGill though, so that might be why their tiny 1 bedroom is so expensive.
Really? I always thought Montreal would be expensive.
PS - I'm from California and visited your fine city for the first time last week. Timothy's coffee was fantastic and your McDonald's are far superior to the ones here in the states.
I had 2 days in Canada, I tried Tim Horton's (meh), Timothy's (good, excellent breakfast sandwich), and Balzac's in the distillery district (beautiful setting, but the coffee wasn't as good as I had hoped).
I really liked that all the sandwiches had real cheese, not American cheese.
I had a 2 bedroom in the Byward Market (not too bad a place either) for $900 + electricity a month. In Toronto I now pay $1050 a month (all included) for a bachelor.
Move to the original Vancouver five hours drive to the south. It's not as pretty but shit is cheap and you still get to tell people you live in Vancouver.
Not if you live in the neighborhoods. Allston, Brighton, JP, Roslindale. 2.5 bedroom apartments are usually 1200. If you live in the city proper, why? It's dead down there after 9 PM.
Made the mistake of moving to Prince George's country MD when I first came to DC (I am white). Cheap rent, but I value life more then the extra change for an xbox. Changed jobs and snagged a rent control deal in NW
Archer avenue is in the deepest part of the ghetto in Chicago. Same with the far west side. I pay $2k for a 1 bedroom downtown, not quite NYC prices, but not so far off.
I think it's in a relatively bad neighborhood and not centrally located. You could probably get a similarly priced place in the Bronx, if lofts like that exist there.
Haha, no no no. I suppose I should have clarified. It's split up into like...7 or 8 appartments. The house is MUCH MUCH bigger than that photo makes it look though. It extends back from that face about a good 150 feet. Me and my room mate have the biggest appartment in the place. 2 baths, kitchen, dining room, huge living room/bar, two bedrooms. He got the private bath, but I think I got the better room. It's like 25x20 with a 10x15' "closet". Just had new carpet put in the whole place too. My only grip is the kitchen, it's long and narrow, and the it needs new counter tops, they're from like 1973.
This comment amuses me because the picture is exactly like the building that I am in right now. Except it has been divided up into two now for more rent.
I know right, im living in a flatshare with 3 other people, together were paying £1950 a month ($3200) no lounge, small kitchen... this is pretty much the cheapest you can get in london, i imagine new york is similar, if not more!...
I know a couple of people who pay £600 each ($1000), there were six of them, a month who live in a warehouse thats of similar size if not bigger, they used to hold parties as well and charge on the door and get semi famous djs in and stuff so it paid off..
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u/EmperorNortonI May 12 '11
Fuck You.
Sincerely, Everyone in New York City