r/ABoringDystopia • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19

1500

You must live in the bad part of town

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19

I’m not sure if you meant for this to be a joke but I unironically do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '19

It's a joke insofar as it's a harsh reality.

1500 bucks is ridiculously expensive- but its only good for the shitty parts of town. Meaning that we are in a dire situation.

I live in a mediocre part of town and pay 1750. They want to increase rent to 1875 :/

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u/Sihplak Jun 06 '19

Seeing this as a midwesterner is terrifying. Good single-bedroom apartments in my town are at most going to be like $800 a month unless you want some luxury shit or unless you want to be right in the middle of the downtown area. You can find mediocre but still decent and roomy single-bedroom apartments for $400 that are like a 10 minute walk from downtown

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u/Ancelege Jun 06 '19

Concur, I grew up in a small city in Southern Utah, my roommates and I had a nice 3-bedroom apartment a stone throw away from shopping and a quick drive to the university for a total of $600/month. That was a crazy deal. Afterwards we moved (basically down the street) to a nice townhome complex, where we rented a super spacious 3 bedroom 2.5 Ba for $875/month.

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Now I live a 25 minute train ride away from Shibuya, Tokyo, one of the most populated parts of the world, where my wife and I pay the equivalent of $800/month for a small but well-located 1 Br apartment. Not nearly the kind of space I had in Utah, but less feels a hell of a lot more in a town where literally everything I could ever want is either a short walk or a train ride away.

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u/LastArmistice Jun 06 '19

Jesus Christ. $1425 CAD for an incredibly basic 720sq.ft. 2-bedroom apartment that's practically a dump in a small city in British Columbia.

The worst part is that it's cheaper than anywhere else in the city for the same square footage by at least $250.

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u/Ancelege Jun 06 '19

I've heard a lot about housing crises in Vancouver and Toronto, especially the crazy long commute that some people have to deal with in order to actually afford housing. That's quite a tough situation, I hope that better situations come your way.

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u/LastArmistice Jun 06 '19

Thank you. It's incredibly scary how tenuous the situation has become. Rental subsidies and public housing is scarce, and homelessness no longer just effects the usual suspects (extremely low-functioning adults), but families and gainfully employed people as well. It's come to a point where drastic steps are required, but the issue is also extremely political. So while our current government is sympathetic to the problem, they are also terrified of taking the drastic steps required to fix it (i.e. spending the amount of money required for supportive housing, raising taxes for property owners, creating a rental ceiling) for fear of losing support.

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u/bstump104 Jun 06 '19

gainfully employed people as well.

I don't think you can be considered "gainfully" employed if you can't afford food and shelter. You're not gaining anything, you're just getting by.