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Originally Posted by StrugglingStaffWriter
Yeah, I hope not, 'cause it's just so sad seeing it in NYC and then replicated, to a worse degree, elsewhere! Like in Kingston, NY, or Irvington, NJ....
Budget is $500-$600 rent per month, another $200-$300 for utilities (on average; I definitely need my air conditioning and in my experience heat's never really included even though it's claimed to be)...sorry, this is all new to me as I've been a lifelong NYC resident but the city's like a wife who's grown apart from me, we gotta divorce....
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Will even go up to $700 but really don't want like half my monthly net income of $1900 being taken up with the basic living expenses besides food (namely, rent and utilities). Really can't afford to! (Don't you worry too much, though; I got a plan to learn computer programming this year and move on up into a higher tax bracket by the next!)
Friend tells me his friend got a whole house with a pool in the backyard for $600/mo. somewhere in the Southwest...I have begun lookin' there as well!!