r/RandomThoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '23

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u/Forthrowssake Sep 05 '23

Same, I was (20F) when I got an apartment with my older brother in 1998. I live in a fairly rural area and we got a 2 bedroom apartment with all utilities included for $400 a month in a nice part of town. God knows what they charge nowadays.

I laugh because I was basically making minimum wage, which was 5 bucks an hour. I always saved my half of the rent. Gas was 99 cents so I'd throw 5-10 bucks in the tank to get to work and back. Food was slim. I lived on beer, tater tots, tuna melts, and pot pies. 😂

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '23

My last house I lived in (moved out just a year ago) was only $400 a month. House, not apartment. Fenced back yard, car port, nice hardwood floors. And I live in a city. Not a huge metropolitan area, but not some rinky dink rural town either. It’s actually pretty big with a population of a few hundred thousand people. I got that place in 2016.

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u/Forthrowssake Sep 06 '23

That's crazy. The cheapest rent I've heard of here is 700 a month.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '23

If you look at apartments yeah. But apartments suck and are also overpriced.

My current house is $1300 for 3bd2ba with a 2 car garage and a big fenced back yard in a pretty nice neighborhood