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Originally Posted by dabottom
An efficiency is $900 where? In Manhattan?
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New Jersey, in one of the cheaper (but not absolutely cheapest) towns. The Boston area as per Charolastra. $1,500-$2K+ in Manhattan. Splitting a 2-bed with a roommate is cheaper though and a 3+ bed even more so.
People around here with apartments will occasionally look wistfully at apartment listings in cheaper parts of the country online and talk about it when looking for a place locally or if the topic comes up in conversation. Granted, those higher rents generally come with higher salaries but not nearly enough so to close the gap (of course all of us staying here have our own non-economic reasons).