• Rent in NYC where I live is insane. My partner and I recently toured a place where they broke up the basement of a building into 4 apartments, none of which had a real bedroom, and were asking for $3k each

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      11 months ago

      This is a trend everywhere, I just recently moved to different apartment and I’d say 8/10 apartments I saw on Zillow and the other sites were these “open concept” or whatever 1 bedrooms and hallway kitchens. It’s depressing

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        11 months ago

        Move to Ohio and you can buy a house for significantly less than your current rent.

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          11 months ago

          And work?

          These answers are always aimed at WFH “professionals” but blue collar schmucks like me always get the short end of that stick ever since the WFH trend kicked up. I have to live within range of a job that I have to physically be at (I’ve done the 1 1/2 hr drive one way) and any lcol area that I look in doesn’t have anything even remotely close that pays enough to not make it a relative repeat of my current situation just with lower numbers. It’s not that easy for everyone to just do.

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      11 months ago

      Supply and demand.

      You can always move somewhere else and have hope of one day owning property. Or you can rent forever and have nothing to pass on to your kids.

      The choice is yours. I wouldn’t wait around for others to solve your problems.

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        10 months ago

        Ya, people should be forced to move away from their family and friends and home by insane cost of living and instead of sympathy we should just expect them to single handedly solve an entire fucked up economic system.

        🤡