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realnifty1 posted...

Household income, very few people live alone here and most will have roommates. In certain parts of the city for the young making the least money it is common to have people co-living where the landlord only rents out bedrooms for about 1k a month and you share a common space with 3 to 5 other people. People find a a way, it is just that on a 51k salary your options become very limited and you almost certainly are not doing anything to prepare for your future with that amount.

Right, as my question was rhetorical. People are living on less than 100k a year in Boston. It may not be the most comfortable, but they're doing it. And I also know people in Boston paying 1500 or less for places near the T which would be 18,000 for the year. Using that one third number, that means their salary could be 54,000 and it would theoretically still be reasonable for them.