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[–] 41 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The rate of increase is mind blowing. I used to rent a 1br luxury apartment for $1100 back in 2016.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    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).

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  • My cousin has a rent-controlled studio apartment in LA that he pays something like $900 a month for. I didn't even know rent control was a thing anywhere in LA but apparently it is and his rent can only go up 2% or so a year. The only negative is that he's basically stuck in this little place for the rest of his life.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    That's the cost of my mortgage, and I have a 6 bedroom house.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How is Wyoming this time of year?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's actually super pretty. Give me a stable internet connection and I could live in the back woods of Wyoming happily.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    5 bedrooms here. I pay $200 less. Buying at the right time lottery.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah. I didn't realize it was a good time to buy, I just bought when the timing was right for me. I have no idea how or if other people will get this kind of opportunity for home ownership again. Here's to keeping up the house and property to give to my kids as inheritance. Cheers!

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This kicks ass , but price range doesn't

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    $1,200 Christ on a bike the audacity hahaha that's worth like $300 MAX

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  • [+] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)
    [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    Unless you can drive the bed, I don't think it's gonna serve very well as a garage.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Landlords provide housing the same way that ticket scalpers provide concert tickets

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Easy to move in with such a large door

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I pay 3k for my place... This seems generous.

    We, are so fucked, everyone.

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