Perhaps only the NYC dopers can appreciate this. The rest of you will say, “$850 for a one bedroom apartment?! That’s outrageous!” I am moving into a rent-controlled sublet in the heart of the East Village. The apartment would cost at least $2000 on the market. Of course it’s illegal for me to live there, but it’s the only way people like me can afford to live in this neighborhood. My stars must be aligned. I also went out on two good dates last night!
DC-area dopers can relate too, there seems to be a shortage of affordable single-bedroom housing around here. The last one bedroom I looked at was $750.
That’s a pretty sweet deal.
I just got a one bedroom in downtown Astoria for $938, after moving out of my tiny Manhattan dump I was paying $1,170 for (and that place was not in the East Village).
@#$%^ student loans and high cost of living :mad:
$900/mo or so seems to be fairly typical for a one-bedroom in a good, but not the best, area of L.A. But that might have changed; recently I’ve noticed a lot of vacancies in my area.
Where’s Astoria?
The $850 isn’t so bad (comparably). I don’t pay much less than that here - but for the next 2 month, I’ll actually pay more, due to the joys of month-to-month post lease, pre-move time. The $2000 would be entirely too much though. I’d live in a hotel around here before I’d pay that much.
Of course…this has skewed my concept of what apartments cost, and since I’m getting ready to move to a much cheaper area, I’m having to break my tendency to look at a $600 apartment and say “WOW, that’s cheap!” before I realize that my income will also be less.
Congrats on the new place, seriously!
A hotel would cost you at least $3000 a month!
Astoria is in Queens, NYC. I haven’t ever been there, but I’ve heard it’s pretty ethnically diverse. You could do worse, but it ain’t Manhattan.
I should also add that I avoided the terrible NY broker’s fee. In NYC, the broker who gets you the apartment takes about a full month’s rent.
Congratulations!
“…illegal for people like me to live there,”
what are you, an escaped convict? An undocumented alien? A mime? Or is it just illegal because of some rent-control issue?
Pretty nosy of me. Feel free to tell me it’s none of my bidness. 
Sorry that wasn’t clear. It’s a rent control issue. The landlord can’t find out that the woman whose apartment it is actually lives in California. People like me in this case are those who don’t have $25,000 a year to spend on rent.
Ah, I get it now. I see that I blurred two different sentences together when I read it and misquoted you. Sorry about that. Thanks for explaining.
Enjoy your new place. 