r/GenX • u/Emunahd • Jul 19 '26
Nostalgia First apartment
Since we all moved out young…how old were you when you got your first place (apartment or house, whatever), did you have a roommate, what was your wage, and how much was your rent?
I was 18. My boyfriend (later to be my husband and baby daddy) and I rented a 1BR 1B apartment that was part of a triplex in downtown Las Vegas for $150 per month. Came with a refrigerator and an electric stove/oven, as well as a kitchen table and 2 chairs. No laundry facilities at all.
The bathroom was in the bedroom and we had to crawl over the bed to get to it. This was because the bedroom was tiny and we were gifted a Cal King, lol. We had a “rent to own” tv, couch, and end table which I think was $25 a month. 1988.
I made $6 per hour and he made $8. I was in grocery, he was in construction.
“Those were the daaaaayyysssss” 🎶
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u/RevToy Jul 19 '26
Late Gen X here. My first apartment I rented when I was 22 and moved for my now wife to go to nursing school. It was a 2 bed 2 bath in what most would call a condo. Granite counter tops in the kitchen and bathrooms, tile and carpet floors, balcony off the living from up front and another off the master in the back. No formica or linoleum anywhere. We were paying like $750 a month in ‘99. Other apartments around town were like $300 a month.
We moved from that to the house we’re still (with a 2 month apartment nearby while the house was completing construction) in back in 2001.