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Ive lived in the same shitty apartment in the Bay Area for 7 years. My rent has gone from 1300-3500 in seven years. They’ve raised it so much I no longer qualify for this or any other apartment since you have to make 3x the rent, and pay first last and deposit to move in, so the move in costs alone are over $9000. I can’t leave, nowhere to go, too poor to move. I’m slowly being sucked dry of all of my accomplishments and savings.
You need to leave the city If possible of course* The city is too expensive now.
BTW I live in a town of 4700 people, my mortgage for a house with shop/garage on a double "city" lot is 640 a month!! If you were to bail and find a work from home job you could literally get a house in rual America for less than what you paid for your s***** apartment 7 years ago.
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Except there's like...nothing IN those tiny towns. So sure, my mortgage would be 640 a month, but I couldn't get more than 10up/10down broadband internet without paying out the butt for satellite and to go to any big store I'd have to drive an hour to the next town over.
Yeah people always seem to forget that nobody moves to the city for the space and cheap living, people move to cities because of the culture and opportunities it affords. There’s nothing wrong with living in a rural community obviously, but it’s an entirely different situation, with an entirely different set of pros and cons.
This is such reddit thing.
High COL? Move to the rural cheap area.
See a video of cops fricking with minorities, people with crazy trump flags or religious hostility, a total lack of infrastructure, meth heads breaking into shit or whatever crazy third-world stuff and the comments are like "move to a better place".
Can't we have a decent place, especially for those who wouldn't fit in a white Christian nationalist neighborhood that isn't ridiculously expensive? Oh, and jobs
Why do west coast city dwellers always think every thing else is some rural shit hole? If you move to some po dunk 1200 pop town in Southern Ohio then that's what you'll get. If you live in any of the three big Ohio cities or their suburbs you don't have to deal with that shit for the most part. Plenty of cheap rent, jobs and culture.
I'm not West Coast. I'm in the suburbs of Virginia.
Ohio? If I would have moved somewhere simply for cheap rent, I rather go live in Montenegro or Kuala Lumpur. Ohio?
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how fricking old are you. you sound liek a kid who hasn't had real life yet
do you understand that if someone is only making enough money to break even (or have minimal savings) they won't be able to save enough to move.
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Oh-so-progressive plebbitors callously applying a hollywood stereotype to the millions of people who live outside their mouse utopias will never not be funny.
Almost every job you could once justify living in an overpriced urban heck for is able to be done remotely now. Thanks to Starlink you're not even constrained to only places that have decent ISP infrastructure anymore.
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