wolfy42 posted... Where, in general, is there? Cause I gotta say I rarely see such extremes in areas where the min wage has not increased. In fact many of them still have places for $500-$600 for 1 bedrooms. I'm not saying cost of living hasn't gone up, but in general it hasn't over doubled in 4 years in most places that min wage did not increase drastically.
And yeah homelessnes, or having to rent a room/have roomates etc, is skyrocketing.
To be fair, part of the reason the cost of living is so obscene here is because we have a church *coughcultcough* buying up as much land as they can and deliberately screwing with the town's economy in order to seize more control. However, this just proves our point; the landlords who own the property are to blame, not wage increases (which don't exist here anyway).
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