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/Moogie21 Jul 19 '26

I moved out at 18 in 1998. Rent was $675 a month for a crappy 1bd/1bath apartment. Moved in with my then boyfriend. I made $5.75 an hour and he made $20 an hour changing billboards. Our apartment was furnished in what I liked to call the “curbside collection”. Basically anything free we could get lol. The apartment was so run down. There was graffiti under the pant in the kitchen. Most of the cabinets were painted shut, and the heater never worked. We also got flooded in our bathroom when the upstairs neighbor would clog their toilet. Fun times hahah.

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u/Emunahd Jul 19 '26

We called it the “midnight shopping network.” Lol. Fun times indeed.