Total rent for my flat is £625 ($1000) per month; my share is £208 ($335). I have the smallest bedroom (about 6’ x 8’) so we have an arrangement where my two flatmates share the cost of our cable, landline and internet.
I live in Dennistoun, in the East End of Glasgow. For a three-bedroom flat £600 is about standard here. However, my current home is newly built and much, much smaller than the tenement flats I’ve lived in previously. I used to have a huge bedroom for less than I’m paying now and my council tax has skyrocketed since moving in here.
Weighing it up, I probably prefer paying a wee bit more for a smaller, more modern place. In my previous flat we had single-glazed rotting windows with no working boiler (very cold in winter) an infestation of centipedes behind the toilet and beetles/weevils everywhere else, dilapidated furniture, holes in the wall etc. I lived on Duke Street for a year where during “marching season” or whatever they call it the Orange Order Parade woud troop down on a Saturday morning with their drums and their tin whistles. I’m usually hungover on a Saturday morning and truly hated the marches. This quiet little cul-de-sac doesn’t suffer the same disturbance… all I have to put up with now are car alarms, sirens and kids setting off our building’s fire alarm. Hah!
The area itself has some problems with poverty and crime but compared to most of the neighbouring areas Dennistoun is positively posh. It’s a twenty minute walk from the city centre, ten minutes from the hospital and has regular bus services.
Well, it’s kind of a good question I’m curious how much money you have to make to afford that kind of rent. I mean even making ~150k that is still going to take up 100% of your income.
My parents live in a 4000 sqft house on an acre in California about 10 miles from the beach and they only pay $4500 for their mortgage. $6500 is roughly the mortgage for a million dollar home with 20% down.
If I could have come up with a good way to phrase it I would have asked too.
Calgary - NW neighborhood considered ‘inner city’, near the University.
$2600/mth mortgage for a five bedroom, two full bathroom bungalow with a large yard and detached two car garage. It’s a great neighborhood to raise kids in, good schools, yada yada.
ETA: About 1600 sq. ft, but with a finished basement as well, so double that for living space.
My rent is $900 for a 2 bedroom/1.75 bathroom apartment in Seattle. North Seattle, which is purportedly the nice part, but tell that to the people who keep goddamn breaking into my car. I’ve lived in the south end, which is what Seattle considers the “ghetto” (I don’t think it compares to the ghetto in most major cities) before and no one touched my car.
Anyway, not sure of the square footage of my apartment but it’s on the smaller side, though not tiny. It has a washer and dryer (would be $850 without) and includes w/s/g.
My one bedroom walk-up apartment in a small town outside of Nashville is pretty much a bargain. $520 a month, electric and water included. For my town, it’s typical. In the town where I work (about thirty miles away) I would be easily paying $150-200 more per month plus utilities.
Rent is $1,349 per month. Live in Palatine, IL - NW Suburbs of Chicago. About a mile and a half from the train station. Stores all within a mile - grocery, home depot, liquor, Target, WalMart, etc. Backs up to a golf course. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath townhouse. Washer and dryer in unit, with a garage. Nice community. Water, garbage, Nicor (gas), Comed (Power) and Cook County sales taxes are all on me. But I’m a mile from the Lake/Cook border so I can easily get stuff cheaper in Lake County which is nice.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to be offensive and if he doesn’t want to answer he doesn’t have to say anything at all. It just seems a huge amount for rent and his response of, “Happy wife, happy life” indicated that he might be stretching himself a bit to cover such a large rent payment. I was just curious and he can ignore the question if he doesn’t want to answer.
$1350 for a 2-bedroom 1-bath in downtown Westfield, NJ. The bedrooms and kitchen are tiny, but the big LR, DR, and front hall make up for it. Heat is included. Parking sucks. It’s a couple of blocks from the train station. Westfield has excellent schools and a wonderful and vibrant downtown, but sometimes I feel like a bit an alien because the town is very homogeneously affluent. I’m not. But I get to take advantage of all the good stuff that a big tax base brings.
It’s run-down but well-maintained (if you know what I mean.) The landlord is in the process of renovating the units and raising the rents, but they were putting off doing mine because they were busy with others and were happy to rent it at a lower rate. They may never get around to renovating it because I may never leave.
My bro lives on the same block. Awesome place to live.
A comfortable one bedroom, all utilities included, on campus just a half-mile or so from my office, and with the best view in town, for something like $525.
$232 a month, plus…let’s say $80 in utilities. Electric, heat, internet. No cable.
One third of a three bedroom duplex. Two bathrooms, good kitchen, tiny dining room, enough living room to host 7-man D&D sessions with space left over, lots of storage space in the basement. Street parking.
Pittsburgh, PA, in a recently downward-trending (but still safe) excellently positioned (10 minutes to downtown, 15 minutes to university district) working class neighborhood in the city itself, we have a $735 mortgage for a 1225 square foot, 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath ranch with 2 car integral garage, carport and finished, walk-out basement.
That’s based on a refi in 2000 when prices were still going up and we honestly thought the house was overappraised to get us a higher loan. But the house next door, which has an identical layout and size to ours (same developer) but only a 1 car garage, no carport and an only semi-finished basement sold for $75k just last year, so maybe not.
I pay $850 for a one bedroom with hardwood floors in a town about 7 miles from Boston. I’d estimate sq footage to be about 600 sq ft. It’s not the most exciting town but it’s pretty and safe and I’m only about a mile from a T station and there are bus stops nearby. My apartment is on the top floor of an old house converted into apartments but the ceilings are high and I have a lot of light. I am responsible for gas and electric bills. I’m very happy with this place overall and it was a good deal.
Rural NSW Australia $480/month
2 br medium sized house, two blocks from the main street, 1 from the swimming pool and TAFE college. I will eventually own this house.
It’s now up to $5500 US dollars here in the Mexico City area for my apartment. It’s not even that nice (corporate apartment). It so happens that it’s 0% of my income, and not because I make an infinite amount of income.
$500 a month split between two people, for a one bedroom apartment. That’s mad cheap for Seoul but we live in a neighborhood that is somewhat less popular than others.
In Chicago we paid $1200 a month (again, split between two) for a three bedroom, two bathroom - but old and very drafty apartment. Our gas bill was obscene. And at the time I was making less than half of what I’m making now. At one point almost half my salary was going to rent.
$1325 for a 950-sq ft 2-bedroom 1-bath luxury apartment in Ellicott City, Maryland. Balcony overlooking the woods, in-house washer/dryer and kitchen appliances. Plentiful parking, community pool and gym. I locked in a good rate with my lease – new renters are paying $1500 for the same digs now. I’m loving it and feel very fortunate. About a block away from Columbia, which is fairly upscale.
Sheesh, I guess I’ve got it pretty lucky. I’m paying a third of $500/month for a duplex in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Full kitchen, living room, 2 bedrooms and a full sized basement. I’d guess about 1500 sq. ft. with the basement. And, we get half of a front yard and a pretty large, albeit hilly, backyard. It’s fairly quiet and I’ve only seen cops out here three times in the last year and a half (and one of the those times involved an irate friend I was hanging out with). The job market / wages are pretty bad, but I’ve got no real complaints with the accomodations.