• @[email protected]
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    1371 year ago

    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.

    • pizza_rolls
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      451 year ago

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

      • Flying Squid
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        201 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          141 year ago

          They probably renovated to split it into 2 tiny apartments that they rent for double or triple the price each.

        • @goomby69
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          111 year 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).

        • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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          71 year ago

          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.

    • NikkiNikkiNikki
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      261 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        221 year ago

        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!

        • Flying Squid
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          311 year ago

          Gas station attendants could afford houses while their wives stayed at home and did the housework. That’s how ridiculous it’s gotten.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      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).

      • @prayer
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        111 year ago

        I might have to commit a crime in Switzerland. Is criminal tourism such a thing?

      • Lev_Astov
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        71 year ago

        This varies widely across the US. Some areas are like this while others have booming economies with plenty of housing. It’s a big place.

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          41 year ago

          Where are these magical areas?

      • @Snapz
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        31 year ago

        It’s always good to have a backup plan.

    • @DrQuint
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      131 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        161 year 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.

        • @Braysl
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          31 year ago

          Can confirm, Hamiltonian here who witnessed the influx of Torontonians fleeing the big city and taking up our suburbs.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year 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.