• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    1 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.

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      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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      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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        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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      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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        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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        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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      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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        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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          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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    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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    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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    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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    If this was half the price, I’d be thrilled with a place like this. If it has a bathroom and a Washer/Dryer, it has everything I need and nothing I don’t.

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      Which part? The only thing I don’t see from a legal standpoint is a smoke detector. The bathroom will need to have a functional vent to the outside as well.