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SO how do yall NY dudes afford to live?
BIG CITY NTers what's your monthly rent?
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thats what i wanna know ,
i wanna move up there and go to school but i aint tryna pay 1500+ .... im looking for a lil studio or something thats about 500+ no higher than 1000
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Like how does the random retail worker affor d to live in NY???
rocky437
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i collect rent
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All you can find for 500 up there is like those roomshare joints where everybody has a room in like a 3 bedroom and even all of those I've been looking at were more. Even Ninjahood pays 1800$ for his spot IIRC. And small to places like New York and LA isn't the same as in other cities, I was online and they literally have <200 sq ft. studio "apartments." Here's 400 sq ft in Manhattan for only 1600 http://realestate.yahoo.c...148bdee0f2cdbd82e93a9d97
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what about craiglist??.....can u find good deals on there
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Correct me if I'm wrong but salaries are higher than normal in the NYC. Schoolteachers be making $50K up there, when in the south they might be making $30K. Still doesn't make up for the cost of a apartment or home.
Dallas, Houston, and ATL might be the cheapest big cities to live in. You can get a nice 2BD apartment for $800 or less, and get a nice 4BD house for $200K or less.
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$1200 2 br 2 baths apartment
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They dont....dont let that How To Make It In America show fool you....dudes working in Barney's arent living in apartments like that out here unless they have roomates
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maaaaaaan if my rent was like that, i would have 2 cribs, straight up. . . . .
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1BR-$1200 Downtown Silver Spring, MD + utilities...
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mommas house, sharing a bedroom with their brother, two twin size beds, smh
i share a 2 br 2 bath apt , balcony , cable, wifi, etc
usually about $630-660 a month. in the aspen hill area of moco ( good deal imo)
saving up so i can get a much nicer place at the end of the summer.
average for a one bedroom is about 1200-1400 in my work area, rockville/northbethesda
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$1950 1 bd rm with best view ever of SF. i put money on it
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I pay around 1000 a month, to share a room with 2 other people. Westwood
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I live in a 2BR apartment, and my roommate and I each pay $235/month. This price includes water...
I will let you all guess where I live...
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alex va...1409 plus water electric etc... 708 sq ft
upp marlboro md...1275 plus water gas electric 1194 sq ft
upp marlboro md...1275 plus water gas electric 1194 sq ft
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a little less than 1400 for 2 br 2 baths in downtown la.
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rent is so crazy, most of u pay mortgage type amounts, i guess though that 10% down is what holds us all back. I'm still living with my folks, my plan is to get a small house by october.
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what do you do? I'm out here in SF now lookin for a decent 1 bedroom in a good neighborhood w/ parking
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1600-2br 2 bath
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Considering rent is on-going for damn near the same rate, NY may be little more expensive, but this also applies to L.A
And to dude who rented his sisters apartment that's mad rare, that situation happened to a buddy of mine in L.A. Although he had a roommate, the place went for like 2500 square feet at like 1K monthly..such a steal.
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I'm moving to Cali in a year or so still undecided on which part I just know I'm prepared to be broke
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$990 1 bedroom brooklyn
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No more than a third of your gross annual income should go towards housing. As for rent, you should not spent anymore than 25% of your gross income.
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[font=Verdana, sans-serif]I'm right around that 25% but my rent is going up in a april ... i'm trying to save for a place but its hard and i don't want to move to jersey .... anyways ... yall see the wide ranges of rents here in the city ... now its a matter of what you can afford, what you're willing to spend, and where you're comfortable living ... living in a big city is nice ... not being able to enjoy it b/c you're spending it all on rent
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