Current Events > Imagine paying $4895 a month for rent in San francisco as a bargain

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Pre covid: $5895/mo
Current covid: $4895/mo

$1000 saved a month... and that's a bargain price according to that renter.

Also average rent in SF is $3200 for 1 bedroom.... this is normal in cities of California.

That's what happens when higher paying jobs show up. Sad.

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Inpay $600 for 2 bedrooms in Ohio, I couldnt afford cali and wouldnt even try

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Thats why there's such a homeless problem. People can't even afford a place to poop

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fhqwhgads posted...

Thats why there's such a homeless problem. People can't even afford a place to poop

Anytime I see shit on the ground when I pass by Dolores park, I always wonder whether its human or dog shit because theres plenty of both in that area.

Yeah I'll stick with buying a 4BR/3BA right on a lake for 250k in the midwest at the expense of having slightly fewer restaurants to choose from

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The only people that live in San Francisco are people who are grandfathered in
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I visited San Diego and we thought it was great. I imagine our house we paid 300k paid for in Nevada would probably be worth over a million there lol. The tiniest house 2br house ever was close to 800k

would be nice to temp live there for a year

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PatrickMahomes posted...

Yeah I'll stick with buying a 4BR/3BA right on a lake for 250k in the midwest at the expense of having slightly fewer restaurants to choose from

slightly fewer lol ok

Austin_Era_II posted...

That's what happens when higher paying jobs show up. Sad.

And lower prices is what happens when the employees of those jobs pack up and leave. Then landlords will have no choice but to lower rent becuase the people even if they absolutely needed living there cant afford it.

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It's almost as if letting the free market completely decide rental pricing isn't a good idea.

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The renter would have to pay me to live there. That looks like a shithole

nfearurspecimn posted...

It's almost as if letting the free market completely decide rental pricing isn't a good idea.

its not a good idea imo, housing should be affordable to all, its no wonder we have so much homeless in the USA

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why would anyone want to live there in the first place?

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Trump America
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Im really ignorant on this, but is it rare to have a place with a yard in places like this? I couldnt imagine not having a yard.

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jeffhardyb0yz posted...

lmao whats a yard? 70% of us here in ny dont have one

I couldnt do it.

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DiegoSanchez206 posted...

I couldnt do it.

I enjoy the space my yard gives me from the other properties but wholly shit it gets annoying working all week on my feet then having to come home and mow on the weekend. And it really is every week, I live in Florida where it's raining daily so the grass grows back weekly.

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i basically live at a resort in texas and my mortgage is lower than that

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San Francisco is turning into a ghost town with people leaving in droves.

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orangefire25 posted...

I enjoy the space my yard gives me from the other properties but wholly shit it gets annoying working all week on my feet then having to come home and mow on the weekend. And it really is every week, I live in Florida where it's raining daily so the grass grows back weekly.

I have to mow weekly as well. Im annoyed with weed eating, but I actually like mowing. Looks so nice after.


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DiegoSanchez206 posted...

I have to mow weekly as well. Im annoyed with weed eating, but I actually like mowing. Looks so nice after.

Edge a good angle to the dirt then get real close to the dirt and saturate it with round up. Do this once a month and no more weed earring

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Flauros posted...

why would anyone want to live there in the first place?

Best weather in the U.S. That alone cost $1,500/month

I wouldnt live there.

I would live in Dallas if I wanted a high paying tech job with much cheaper rent.

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literally more than my monthly paycheck

edit: n/m i got it by like $100

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skermac posted...

its not a good idea imo, housing should be affordable to all, its no wonder we have so much homeless in the USA

Location largely decides that. We literally have people posting here about the rent being much lower in other parts of the country. Thats not even including government assistance for lower income housing. Saying housing should be affordable to all sounds nice, but can mean a wide range of things to different people.

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Bought my house about eight years ago, the last apartment I rented before that my monthly rent was less than 10% of that. >_>

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hyperpowder posted...

I wouldnt live there.

I would live in Dallas if I wanted a high paying tech job with much cheaper rent.

Same,Plano is affordable with great pay atm.I got offered a job in Garland lol no thanks.Im staying an hour away with cheap cost of living with ok pay.

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Meanwhile I'm over here in Omaha with a 6 bedroom 3200sqft house I paid $260k for


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Before I bought my house I was renting a 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bathroom home with a yard and a pier/boat launch for $650 a month.

Big city life is a scam and a lie

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Flauros posted...

why would anyone want to live there in the first place?

SF is well known for 100k tech jobs

WashYourHands posted...

Big city life is a scam and a lie

"Big" midwestern cities are great though. In Omaha there's tons of amazing restaurants, a great music scene, and generally tons of shit to do without having to share a 1 bedroom apartment with 6 people.

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People are missing that SF is a tech hub where most engineers there are making at least $300k a year. Obviously not worth living there unless youre in the tech industry.

Also SF is vastly different to the rest of California in terms of cost of living.