RENT

>>1148192
I live in San Francisco, California, USA. One bedrooms where I am average around $2500/mo., but it's embarrassingly easy to pay a lot more, and possible to find one for a bit less.

Jacksonville FL. 600-800 for a decent apartment on a decent side of town.

If anyone is curious, the rumors about Jacksonville are wildly exaggerated and I love it here.

>St. Catharines, Canada
>800-1000/mo.

Fucking international students driving up rent, town is 10-15% students. College is for cucks

>>1148221
Jesus christ those queers have a butt full of cash

Passau, Bavaria
300€/month, 30qm, one bedroom, 4 minutes to uni by bike
Its enough for me.
>>1148267
>town is 10-15% students
Here its 25%. Easily 40% in the inner city.

>>1148192
$1500 for a house in North Dakota

$3,000 for an apartment in LA.

>>1148267
>Jesus christ those queers have a butt full of cash
It's less the homosexuals and more the Twitters, Ubers, Airbnb, Facebooks, and Googles.

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>Costa Rica
>10km away from San José, 6km from Heredia
>About $300

Everything else is expensive as balls tho

>>1148192
>Where do you live?
Kansas City

>How much is it to rent a 1 bdrm apartment in your neighborhood?
$500/month including utilities

>>1148267
>bitching about college
>why am I so poor?
lel

Preston, north west uk.
1 bed flat in the city is about £500pcm. Probably around £300/400 around fulwood further out of town

I live in Austin. My rent for my apartment is $1600 a month. That's a deal btw.

>>1148192
>1 bdrm apartment
>Berlin
Several years ago you could get an entire apartment in the center of the city for around 300€/month warm. But now that all of the hippies starting pouring in and rapefugee invasion has begun you can't find even a shithole studio in the ghetto for under 800€/month and it's only getting higher and higher by the day.

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Sofia, Bulgaria. In green part, $266/mo.

3 rooms + kitchen + toilet + bathroom.

>>1148376
College is a waste of time and money 90% of the time.

>>1148391
>Not moving to bulgaria

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Din daeng, Bangkok $230 (8000b) for 30sqm

>>1148192
Moscow, 700 euro for a studio in the central district.
Avg salary is 400. Fuck this place

>>1148431
Shit nigga I'm paying 17,000/month

Buffalo, NY

$700-$900 1bd in "best" area, possible to find cheaper.

Saint Gilles on Reunion Island's Gold Coast, a 1bdrm apartment is in the EUR 700-900 range.

$1200/mo for a 1 bedroom in jersey city, NJ. Depends on the neighborhood, really. You could pay probably $500 in the murder district, and $3000+ on the waterfront that overlooks NYC.

Because of all the NYC commuters, rents are starting to go up everywhere though. Jersey city is becoming the next Brooklyn

>>1148496
Buffalo has good areas?

>>1148438
I live a bit further out, and have a 2 bed for 50k roubles. Way better value outside the centre. Agree on the wages though, Russians get fucked wh2n it comes to wages.

Vienna

Around 500-700€ for a 1 bedroom apartment (in the center though)

Can get down to 300€ if you live further out I guess

>>1148391
Why doesn't everyone live there if it's so cheap?

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>>1148513
A good amount of Buffalo is beautiful af in the summer, but then turns to shit in the winter and is boring all year round.

Cleveland, OH

My place is ~$1,100/mo for 1000 sq ft, nice lake view.

You can pretty easily pay half that if you go a mile or two outside of downtown, but I live one block from my office/grocery store/bars/stadiums. It is convenient as fuck and I am lazy. CLE deserves some of the flak it gets and I wouldn't go out of my way just to visit, but pretty cozy place to live.

Santa Barbara, CA

Average is around $2000.

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>JUST

>>1148633
I can't take it anymore. I have to leave.

>>1148192
San Jose california (downtown area near university)
1 bedroom 1 bathroom 1850 USD/ month

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$2200/mo for 1 br 690 sq feet in downtown Chicago. Pic is from my balcony

Lenox Hill - Upper East Side, Manhattan
I pay $1,700 for my share of a (not true) 3BR 1B walk up. I'm in the only building on the block that doesn't have a doorman, but it's cozy.

I live in Vancouver, Canada. I live in the suburbs, about 40 minutes by public transport from downtown/fun areas and it costs about $600 for a basement suite shared with another person, about $900 if it's just a 1 bedroom basement suite. If I wanted to live in an apartment nearby it would be around $1100 for a 1 bedroom.

On the other hand if I wanted to live in a decent area like downtown or Kitsilano (area with lots of restaurants, close to beach, close to entertainment) I'd be paying $1700+ for a 1 bedroom.

Pasadena, 7 miles north of downtown L.A.

My 2 bedroom place is $2500. A one bedroom place is $1600. You can find cheaper and more expensive all around the city, but Pasadena is safe, quiet, clean, and easy to get around.

>>1148669
Oh shit I'm also from Pasadena.
What's up buddy?

>Montreal, Canada
Unless you're one of those idiots who want to go live among the french immigrants and the hipsters in the Plateau in all likelihood you can get away with 2 bedrooms for around 700 syrupdollars per month. 1 bedroom isn't usually very far from that price.

>>1148508
>Jersey city is becoming the next Brooklyn
i just moved into jersey city and this is exactly what the kid who lived here before me said

until he moved back to brooklyn

place is alright, i live by journal square and pay $670 for a unnecessarily large bedroom. 3 windows, 2 closets, and a sink

>>1148192
an oil and gas city in Alberta canada, 1bdr apartment goes for 1600-1800/month.

>>1148384
I used to think I wanted to live in Austin.
Now I realize I want to live in Austin 5-10 years ago.

>>1148668

about the same where I am, in Surrey.

>>1148679
That's actually super cheap for JSQ. Especially if you're close to the path station

>>1148680
nigga where the fuck do you live? you can get 1 bedrooms in yyc for a grand

MD, North and South of Baltimore, average for a 1 bedroom is $1200, with you either living right off a freeway, or in a sketchy neighborhood, and that's typically for standard apartment looks & amenities. Closer to $1,400 if you want something upgraded.

we hates it.

Share a small dinky house near downtown Savannah. $375 before utilities, which is less than half of what most decent one bedrooms in the area seem to cost. I travel for work for weeks at a time so i figured there wasn't much sense paying for something better. Found it through Craigslist; lucked out cause roommates are great. Pretty happy, though I'd really love my own studio.

>>1148508
>murder district
kek

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Prague, 20 minutes by tram from the city center.
Rent is 320eur, all in all with other expenses it comes to 400/month.

>>1148508
>>1148679

Sup jc.

2200 1br here. When I moved in 5 years ago it was 1300.

>>1148287
San Isidro de Heredia here

>>1149187
Nigga you joking? I live in San Isidro right up The Torino carwash

Japanese alps.

My 3br house costs about $70 a month.

Turku, Finland
I'm sharing a flat with three others, we pay €300/month. It's right in the centre.
You can find really cheap studios/1-bedroom flats for 300-500€ just a little outside of the centre, it's also a big student city.
Student accommodation is dirt cheap.

>>1149297
We pay €300/month each.
>fix'd

>>1149187
>>1149281
San miguel de Grecia here. Near Coop Victoria.

Sup brahs

>>1148405
t. redneck making $10 an hour

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Barcelona; Gothic Quarter

> same street as me
> 0 min away from the city center
> 1750€/mo 49m

Tourism and rich foreigners that want to live 'the mediterranean life' are ruining the pricing, but hey, more money for my family, we have a tourist apartment that it's paying the mortgage and everything else itself.

> the apartment where we live was bought when everyone though this was a shit neighbourhood.

>>1149321
forgot the link

https://www.idealista.com/inmueble/31849321/

>>1149319
I'm actually a tradie who makes more than most people who went to grad school.
Nice try though. Enjoy your crippling student debt all for a worthless degree.

>>1149186
Where you at? Grove street? Van Vorst? That area is getting ridiculous.

I stayed in an airbnb in Jersey City recently and it was a pretty nice 2br apartment on Vroom St (really close to the PATH train). The owner said it would cost about $1500 a month to rent which seems pretty good. It did have some roaches though, is that normal for Jersey City? lel

>>1149359
Roaches are found in every large city, you avoid them by not living next to garbage or anything less than perfectly sterile (not possible in a densely populated area), having literally hermetically sealed living spaces (not possible with 100 year old housing stock), and pest control methods (this basically means poison)

Having a roach get inside every now and then is impossible to avoid

Having "some roaches" is usually a sign of landlord neglect

>>1149363
>Having "some roaches" is usually a sign of landlord neglect

It was probably this. We basically saw a roach or two a day. I would hope that monthly fumigation would be free once someone lived there.

>>1149368
You don't kill roaches with fumigation, you kill them with gels and bait traps

Aalst, Belgium. City of about 100 000 people not too far from Brussels. € 600 - 700 a month.

>>1148496
Buffalo is absolute shit in the winter re: most of the year. It's beautiful for two months and then it's a sweaty armpit before it falls back into shit.
So glad I moved.

>Cary, NC
>$800 a month for 1b
Could do better if the person I'm living with knew how to drive and didn't have to walk to work. So it's in an area next to businesses.
Uber drivers call my complex "New Delhi" because of all the Indians.

>>1149281
wow, never thought I would find someone from San Isidro here. I live 4 blocks north of the church.

>>1148665
looks awesome, pricy tho

>>1149376
>You don't kill roaches with fumigation

Why not? Are they immune to it?

>>1149379
Hopefully I'll be out of here soon. It seems like 80% of people who move out of Buffalo go to NC. You know why that is?

>>1149348
Yeah, in Van Vorst, 5min walk from Grove

>>1149297
Do you know what the average rent might be in Helsinki?

>>1149321
>>1149322
When I see shit like this I just want to kill myself because I'll never have anything even approaching 1/10th of that. Must be so nice to live in a normal country and have a normal family. :(

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Kortrijk, Belgium, 300 euroshekles per month for pic related, bathroom on the right not pictured, can't complain since it was all brand new when I moved in.

>>1148745
man isn't that pretty expensive for Prague?

>>1149546
It's actually very cheap for Prague, what are you on about? It's a tourist city.

>>1149338
Except when you get college paid for you and living expenses while you're going to college :^)

>>1149556
Not all of us are eurokeks

>>1148384
Lol I'm in Austin and I'm getting a 4 bdrm for 1600

Milwaukee, WI
My girlfriend and I found an awesome deal on a 3br upper unit of a duplex for $720 in the heart of my favorite neighborhood, though it's not the safest (not too dangerous either though. Think the edgier parts of brooklyn)
1brs run 6-800 here, but can be found for as cheap as 450. Nicer areas of town are 800-1200+

In the USA there's a new hipster meme town every 5 years (Portland, Austin, Seattle) and every edgy 20something flocks down there and drives up rent. Wait 5 years, repeat the drill.

In Canada, our edgy hipster town has been Montreal for the past 400 years, and it's also the cheapest rent in Canada.

Just a friendly reminder

>>1148513
My friend lives on Grand Island just outside of Buffalo and it's extremely nice there. Rent's around 800, in an area that looks like a quaint-ass Cape Cod town.

He just moved there though, I'll be laughing at him when he gets fucked this winter.

>>1149599
The catch is youre living in a frpzen flyover state

>>1149619
I've lived in Seattle, Houston and Philly and this is my favorite place. Better underground diy music scene (well, it rivals Seattle at least, better than the other two), filled with a good mix of college-aged people and lifelong residents (so not too many transplants, just enough to make ot interesting), amazing breadth of dining and drinking options, on lake michigan, has the grungy rust-belt vibe that I like, bike-friendly, people take life at a slower, more relaxing pace and are incredibly friendly, plenty of green space within the city and within an hour of some great state parks/forests (and chicago) and best of all, it's cheap af.

Cons are the extreme segregation and violence, WI politics, and asshats like you dismissing it as a flyover shithole. Which is probably for the best anyway, since it keeps our rent low.

Btw, Wisconsin winters are cozy af. Been here for 5 of them and I love it.

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>>1149546
>>1149549
To be fair I could get a cheaper place in a location similar in terms of pub scene, traffic and distance from the centre.
But I would not say it is expensive or inadequate.
And indeed, it is a tourist or even ex-pat city. Prices are going up, but even in ten years the cost of living here will probably be laughable compared to west of here.

>>1149669
Why do you let those people in your country? The only thing they want is cheap whores and drugs, they don't contribute to anything.

700 euros in East Amsterdam...fucking expensive city.

>>1149673
The tourists?
I don't care much for them ever since I stopped living near a big hotel and using the subway, but even then it was hardly a bother.
They contribute more than enough with their money. And most people who actually live here would really not hang out at the touristy places anyways, so I don't see why they should mind.
The ex-pats? These people usually work here so I fail to understand how they would be contributing less than anyone else here.
The rent is rising simply because more people want to live here and the actual interesting part of the city is not inflatable.
By the way, both the whores and drugs are great.

>>1149691
>By the way, both the whores and drugs are great.
/trv/ in a nutshell. Pathetic.

>muh degeneracy

Westchester, New York.
In my town specifically, on the river, with transit to NYC that takes about 40-50 min, a 1 Bedroom apartment, after a quick search can run you anywhere from 1,500 to 3,000 a month, depending on a lot.

Seems like my town is gentrifying, fuck.

>>1148561
Because the wages are relative.
If you can live off of 10K a year, you will earn an amount that reflects that. It's cheap because I'm assuming you're a Western European or American who finds that 20K is a low wage in many areas.

Jesus Christmas what you are americans going to do when the economy crashes in November?

And yes it will. You have 29 trillion to pay back now. Sure it will be the stock market this time but that's even worse.

That means alot more business shut down.

>>1148513
No. But surrounding suburbs are very, very nice. Amherst is nice, and I had family friends that lived in East Amherst, an extremely small, quaint, hamlet. Very American-Dream white picket fence, green lawn, kids riding bike around the neighborhood.

>>1148633
>Studio
>2,150 a month
How much would you earn a month in Downtown LA usually?

>>1149844
>You owe 29 Trillion
You're aware that no sovereign debt is expected to be paid back in full, right? So long as the US churns out enough money to pay the interest on its loans we'll be fine. Will there be a wild dip? Sure, just like Brexit. But, again, like Brexit, people will realize after a month it's business as usual and it will return to the status quo.

>What will you Americans do
If it happened how you said, what will you Canadians do? What will you Euros do?

>>1148405
if you spend 90% of your time shitposting on a maldivian pillow fluffing board, sure

>>1149843
>Because the wages are relative.
So? Just live in a normal country for a year and save up enough to live 10 years there.

>>1149848
Can't really answer that. Could be $1500 could be $15000.

>>1149881
>Just save $200k! It's easy

Time to stop posting.

>>1150002
You can live just fine in my country for $5000/year. You supposedly earn that much in a month in the US.

>>1150002
Retard
>>1150028
What cunt?

>>1148192
Tucson AZ - one of the cheapest (and poorest) places in the states.
Rent for a 1Br is about $400-700, depending on the neighborhood/size.

>>1150030
You don't even know which country he's in yet you're claiming $1600 per month isn't a reasonable monthly estimate?

End your life.

>>1150028
Unless it's Sub-Saharan Africa, $400 per month is not realistic.

>>1150038
Why wouldn't it be? The average wage is 350. people live just fine on that.

>>1150043
What country?

>>1150037
Ive been to a few countries where you dont need fucking 1600 a month to live in you seriously have a hard time believing such places exist? jump off a bridge edgy fgt

>>1148513
fuck buffalo. come to Rochester. me and my buddies have a half house with 3 floors and a basement and washer and dryer for $1200/mo

just whatever you do DO NOT move into a place on the west side of the genesee river. rochester has as high a murder per capita as NYC and i can tell you from experience that it is almost entirely from the west-side of the city. the south eastern part of the city is very safe and still relatively cheap. also DO NOT sign a lease with boulder realties. the dude is a fucking slumlord at best, and a straight crook at worst

we also have a way better music scene than buffalo, if that is what you are into. winter is also a little harsh, but nowhere near as bad as buffalo.

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>>1150044
You do realize that there are plenty of places in the world where people live on $300-1000/month right? My life plan is exactly what was laid out here, work for 3 or so months a year and spend the rest travelling/living in more inexpensive countries and actually enjoy my life.

Enjoy being a debt serf tied to the land. Keep working to pay off those loans! Arbeit macht frei am I right ;)

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>>1150088
Can you rent a place without a visa anon kun?

>>1150088
>he still won't answer which country

Embarrassing.

>>1149599
Sounds like Minneapolis ~10 years ago. Gentrification is a bitch.

>>1150097
Not him, but here is my list of countries where you can live on 500 bucks a month, based ONLY on personal experience (>= 3 months spent on <=500 bucks) Living means you eat a balanced diet, rent a small flat and can afford to buy clothes, eat out from time to time etc.

1) Russia (excluding Moscow, St.Petersburg is borderline. Also avoid northern cities as cost of food is very high there)
2) Belarus (excluding Minsk)
3) Ukraine (excluding Kiev, please also stay away from the south, it's not safe at all)
4) Georgia
5) Hungary
6) Romania
7) Pakistan (do never go near Afghani border/Tribe zone, otherwise inshallah)
8) China (excluding large cities)

All shit countries, right? Well, you can also barely make it (although it will be really tough) on 500 bucks in
9) Spain
10) France
In the latter two it will be possible only n really rural areas and with severe limitations.
That's it. I know there are other places but I can't speak for what I haven't tried myself

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>Austin, Texas, USA
>$850/mo minimum for 1 bedroom shithole

I rent a 3 bedroom with 2 other people for $1400/mo and that's considered a steal.

I fucking hate all the rich Californians who moved in and drove up the cost of living.

This used to be a nice place to live.

Last apartment I rented was just under $950 USD. In Yokosuka Japan, but my employer chipped in 1k for living expenses so I have no idea what reasonable would have been.

>>1148192
620€
Hamburg, Germany. Green part of the city, small metro station in 2 min walk.

but you have to search for 3-6 months and an income that the landlord feels ok with.

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>>1150313
>Ukraine (excluding Kiev, please also stay away from the south, it's not safe at all)
What? Are you joking? I traveled around southern Ukraine and Odessa alone back in May for 10 days and I'm just a skinny 19 year old kid from northern Europe. It felt safer than my home town.

Oakland, CA
$1000/mo for a run down studio in the hood (not the worst hood, tho)

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>>1148236
I like Jacksonville. I think older people in Florida associate the city with pulp mills and heavy industry and haven't realized it's gotten alot nicer in the last few decades and the economy has diversified.

Anyway I live in Tallahassee, Florida. All the one bedroom apartments are shitty motel room style, it's easier to just get a two bedroom if you live on your own. I pay $800/mo for a 950 square foot 2 bed/2 bath townhouse built in the late 80's close to FSU. Lots of trees, the back patio and small backyard back up to a small wooded area for privacy, high celings, counter with a bar, parking for two cars in front, walking distance to FSU, stores, and two parks. Air conditioning of course since it's in Florida.

I love it, would be perfect if it only had a fenced in backyard instead of an open one that backs up to the woods. It's roomy, comfy, and close and convineint to everything whether I'm walking, cycling, or driving.

>>1148729
Lol this, I just visited there for the first time and had that exact reaction.

It's a cool city but it's not THAT cool. If I'm going to pay outrageous rent it would have to be be in NYC, San Francisco, or Boston for it to be worth it.

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>>1149844
>blah blah blah

>>1150324
>I fucking hate all the rich Californians who moved in and drove up the cost of living

Is it actually mostly Californians moving to Austin or is that just a meme?

Nyc outer borough
1br apartment is around $2000-2500

>Queens, NYC, NY, USA
>$1500-2000/month 1 bdrm+1bathroom

NYC rent is criminal. Thankfully my family hasn't paid rent in decades because they just bought the apartment straight up.

Very jealous of all of you. Especially Milwaukee as I've been there and know the city is sweet. Or some of those European cities have great rent rates but I know the accomodations have to be small.

In Boston, in a neighborhood a few miles outside downtown but still in city limits, you're talking $1300 min for a studio and probably $1500 for a proper 1br. Much more downtown.

>>1150518
How did you find a place so cheap in east bay?

>>1148192
Toronto

You can find a nice basement all to yourself for a little over 1000 CAD.

This is in the West End where it is still cool and not far from downtown, Kensington, Queen W etc.

>>1148267
go to thorold you fuck its like 600 there

>>1150313
I'm sure you can get by with 500 per month in China outside of Shanghai

I have to imagine that plenty of people even in Shanghai get by on way less money than that

the cheapest 1 bedroom apartment in bad New York City neighborhoods (excluding Staten Island) are at least 1100 per month

>>1150654
2br are around 1400 right? One roommate shouldn't be too bad...

>>1150668
I'm not so sure about 2BRs, but yeah probably like 1400-1500 minimum

I think I'd hate to live with a roommate though, but if I had my own bedroom and I liked my roommate it wouldn't be so bad.

>>1148221
Downtown San Francisco too
I think the absolute cheapest appartments start around $1200/mo, but I can see people paying 2500 in a decent neighborhood

The city is literally crumbling under my eyes and it doesn't feel good. Anything that the techies don't particularly care about is as good as trash and erased from the city. Shit, I give it 5 years before they outlaw Folsom Street Fair. There is absolutely no reason to live here if you don't work in a major tech company, and even if you do get ready for the hostile climate and the exploitative landlords.

My sis is off to Seattle, but Im not sure if I want to try those new "SF 2.0: You can (not) redo" overhyped cities. Anyone knows if Boston is cool for young people ? Montreal ?

Portland, OR- 800/month

Though, that's been going up a lot all over the city. Might be closer to 1000 this time next year.

>>1150593
I was watching craigslist for months, bro. As soon as this came up I snatched it.

>>1148192
>>1148533

>Around 500-700€ for a 1 bedroom apartment (in the center though)

I guess you mean the inner districts, including the first and a few of the really expensive areas, e.g., Spittelberg, Döbling,... I pay €650 for 1 bedroom/55 square meters (that's 592 in freedom units) in the 15th district, close to Stadthalle. It's not as good here as in the 7th or 9th, but I actually like it - easy access to public transportation and bars, clubs, restaurants in the 7th district and Gürtel area, plus a 10 minute walk to work.

>>1148192
Currently live with parents who own their house.

In Edinburgh though, where a 1 bedroom apartment is around £500-600/month minimum. (At least for somewhere remotely central)

Northeast Dallas and ~$950

>>1150527
They are moving to Dallas too. TX has no state income tax which is attractive and no real winters.

>>1150734
http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/Northeast-Dallas-Dallas-TX/house,condo,apartment_duplex,mobile,townhouse_type/274772_rid/paymenta_sort/32.952215,-96.559697,32.75754,-96.867314_rect/11_zm/

I've found way cheaper than that in that neighborhood

>>1148192
renting a 2 bedroom right now. Regina, Saskatchewan 1095 + internet and power so about $1200/mo, have a room mate. could find way cheaper places here but idgaf.

>>1148192
Rio.
400 eur

Not worth it, if you ask me.

>>1150749
Also, it's not a 1 bedroom. It's a >20m2 studio

>>1150734
Lakewood reporting

Houston reporting in. It's pretty cheap here. For a 1b/1b around $500-600 average. Could find things for cheaper though, my brother lives in a converted warehouse loft and pays $375 and he is right next to downtown.

>>1148561

I don't know. I see a discussion on wages has come up. I make a decent mid-tier wage for a person my age and education and skills and can say this apartmwnt is overkill for me, but the price and location are good and I can afford it on my own. I actually have a cool roommate so it's even cheaper so I have plenty of money do dick around. So yeah. Life's good lol and I'd recommend the country as a great place to expatriate. $1500/mo solo for the city capital and you'll lead a very, very comfortable life full of activities. Outside of the capital you are basically king.

Minimal wage is shit everywhere, keep that in mind. ;)

>>1150749
>>1150751
that seems kind of high
i was looking at renting an apartment on Floripa near the uni and it's like $320 or R$1000
Rio rent too damn high
neighborhood?

>>1150838

Texas is nuts. $175,000 gets you a gorgeous house.

Suburbs of NYC here, $1,700 a month for a 1b

>>1150748
I was in Regina maybe 5 years ago and You could rent a 4 bedroom house for that. I heard that you got swarmed with shitskin pakis, I guess that jacked up the rent there huh?

>>1151006
>more muslims AND the rent goes up

lmfao

>>1150673
As stated earlier, the US has a meme town every 5 years, it was Brooklyn, then Austin, then Portland, now it's shaping up to be Pittsburgh.

In Canada, Montreal will ALWAYS wear that crown and has done so since the '67 expo. It's got this funky bohemian anything-goes vibe. Very little policing and a very lax attitude towards public drinking/pot smoking. To be honest it's fucking lush man. Rent is also dirt cheap, (think 800 for a downtown 2 bedroom) and you can get a hotdog and fries for two bucks. Good clubs, hot chicks, legal touch dancing, pretty-much-legal prostitution, cheap beer, and 3 AM last call makes for a great city to live and work. They have the largest comedy festival in the world and the largest fireworks festival in North America. Oh, and they have a giant hippy drum circle called tam tam every Sunday on the mountain.

It's lush, mate. Go there.

San Antonio here.

Currently live in the south side with all the Mexicans (our Mexicans are pretty friendly) and its $600 for 2BR.

Planning on moving to the north side to a 2BR for about $800 and renting out the room on AIRBNB.

>>1150933
Flamengo.
Anything on Zona Sul (south zone) is super expensive.
And outside of zona sul there are only a handful of good places to live.

Groningen, Netherlands
Live in a studenthouse for 320included.
A 1bedroom apartment/studie will run you around 5-800depending on the neighbourhood.

>>1151032
>As stated earlier, the US has a meme town every 5 years, it was Brooklyn, then Austin, then Portland, now it's shaping up to be Pittsburgh.
When is it gonna be Jacksonville's turn??

>>1148278
Louisiana or Los Angeles?

downtown osaka here. fairly new building, double bedroom - as in I have a double bed in it - won't be western size. 75,000 yen + 10,000 maintenance fee. perfect location.

>>1151291
isn't that kind of cheap for the location?

Portugal here, Porto. Periphery apartments might go for 400€ a month. In the city center, expect to pay a minimum of 650€ for a decent place.

>>1151299

not really. maybe a little cheaper because there is a street of love hotels around the corner.

$900 Downtown Richmond, Virginia for my current 1 bdrm.

>>1151285
Not him but it's obviously Los Angeles.

You could rent an awesome big French Quarter apartment in New Orleans for less than $2,000 per month.

>>1151032
Brooklyn is still hot, it's getting super expensive even in the bad parts

>>1151360
I was in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 2012-2013, and the rent for a 700sq ft three bedroom (yes, they exist) was around 2700/month.

This was half a block away from a waste disposal facility. Year round stench, and the sound of trucks backing up all night.

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>>1148192
300 p/m

>>1151403
Unrelated question:

Are the powered scooters and motorbikes you see all over SEA....are they automatic or manual?

>>1151407
Do you know of any modern scooters that aren't exclusively sold with with a CVT?

Me and three roomies were paying $1000/mo ($250 each) for a place 1 block away from campus in a Michigan uni town. It was crowded but literally the lowest rent I've ever heard of.

>>1151291
Teacher?

>>1151407
>>1151411
They've got both automatic and manual scooters in SEA; easiest way to tell which is which from a distance is to look at the handlebars--if the bike has what look like two handbrakes, it's a manual (one is the actual handbrake for the front wheel, the other is the clutch). The newer and fancier the bike, the more likely it will be automatic, but it's not guaranteed.

In Thailand, where I drove a fancy scooter I got secondhand off of a friend, bikes without clutches are sometimes called girls' bikes, while manuals are referred to as boys' bikes. Was always a tiny bit embarrassing to me, since mine had no clutch.

>>1151411
>>1151443

absolutely BTFO

>>1148391
all for urself or do u share with others?

An apartment in a middle class neighborhood in Charlotte,NC will run you about $850/mo for a 1br/1 bath apartment.

Im currently paying ~$1,100 for a 2br/2 bath and am splitting the rent with a roommate. Live about 20 minutes from downtown.

It seems like prices here in south eastern U.S. are still dirt cheap compared to what some of you are paying.

>>1151467
>It seems like prices here in south eastern U.S. are still dirt cheap compared to what some of you are paying.
Definitely true in my experience. I moved to San Francisco from Durham, NC, and my rent nearly quadrupled.

>>1148743
Just got a $675 studio with detached kitchen and bathroom downtown Sav.

>>1148192
Derry, New Hampshire. I'm currently paying $830 per mo'. The owners of the building I'm in don't seem to raise the rent on current tenants as much as they do for new renters so I'm getting a pretty good deal. The apartment is plain, but I'm in a good area so I have no complaints. I'd have to go to Manchester to get cheaper and that towns getting a bit rough, so I'll stay here.

>>1148391
Is Bulgaria that shit? What's wrong with Bulgaria?

>>1148669
I wish I could afford Pasadena. I'm in Azusa and it's still $1300 for a one bedroom

suburb 1.5 hours outside of NYC

$1000 minimum unless you shack up in a complete shithole

>>1148278

I paid $2250 for a 3 bedroom in LA in a nice middle class neighborhood

>Austin, TX
>900~ sq ft 1 bedroom 1 bath with studio for $960 a month

its pretty nice but i got a really good deal on this apartment, usually this unit would go for $1200 in most other parts of the city

>>1151508

It's not shit. The quarter (neighbourhoods are called quarters) is nice, Sofia has it's faults, but overall it's very, very good and if you earn above average money you can live in comfort and still have money to spare and save.

>>1151458
We used to be 3 male friends. 1 left, so now we're two.

>>1148388
>There goes my dream of Berlin
It's sad that I can't experience Germany, because I heard that other cities are even more expensive, I love Germany and I think that Germany would love me back.


I live in Vilnius, Lithuanian. Rent for 1bv is 300-350€/month, minimal wage is 300. I have no idea how people can afford anything.

>>1151682
How much is a roach-free apartment? Because I've noticed that Bulgaria seems really humid, and the apartments look kind of old, which are two factors that could lead to a roach infestation.

>>1151768
Sofia is Nashville levels of humidity, desu.
~60% right now

So anyway, there's small roaches in some apartments in some quarters, but definitely not a problem you'll face if you move in a clean apartment and keep it that way.

My estimate of $300 for a good, clean apartment in a good area stands.

>>1151775
If I spent 500, what would I get in a nice area?

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>>1151955
http://www.imot.bg/pcgi/imot.cgi?act=5&adv=2c146656164059059&slink=2bl3g8&f1=1

I like this one. Top-tier area for $565. I think you can haggle it down.

For the rest marked "center" check out this link

http://www.imot.bg/pcgi/imot.cgi?act=3&slink=2bl3g8&f1=1

Billdal, Sweden. Suburb to Gothenburg, by the coast.
There aren't any apartments to rent where I live but the ones you can buy are probably 200000€ and up for 1 bedroom.
The place where you can find apartments is a couple of kilometers closer to the ocean and the road than where I live but I don't know if the price difference would be very big. My house is probably worth 400000-500000€, it has been improved very much since the last time I knew the cost.

>>1150309
Minneapple here. Got priced out of my awesome spots in Nordeast and The Warehouse District. Brooklyn Park now. Feels bad.

>>1148221
Gentryficaton really fucked up that City, huh?

>>1148388
>Blaming the buyers side in a sellers Market

Rents have skyrocketed in All German citys in the Last ten years, even those with declining Population. Do some Research, specially about Leerstand in Berlin, before you blame muh rapefugees and them dammned hipstars like a fucking parrot.

>>1150002
If you live in LA like I do you need to save $200k for a downpayment on a house, which is what I'm doing currently. GF and I have over $100k so far and we've only been saving a few years.

>>1149675
KNSM eiland in Amsterdam here. 1100€ for 90m and a parking garage. Not too shabby I'd say.

>>1151200
0 culture

Paris

520€ (all in) a month in a shared appartment in a nice area (16th). Im pretty lucky to have gotten an appartment so quickly (and so cheaply) when I moved in a few years ago.

Fuck this city though, I need to get out. It actually feels like a real step down from London in so many ways.

>>1148192
Milwaukee city in east side. 735$ for 1 br 575 sq ft.

>>1151500
Damn! Any tips?

>>1150673
Montreal is a yes

>>1148678
I don't understand why Montreal is so cheap. It's by far the best city in Canada. How can it be so inexpensive?
T. BCfag

>>1153328
I'm also confused about this. One thing to note, however, is that there's a lot of shitty apartments driving the average price down.

>>1148287
How big is the diffrence of cost between the diffrent places in Costa rica? Is the north cheaper than the south? Also how's it compared to rst of central america and south america like peru for example?

>>1152899
520 Euros to live with a roommate is considered cheap where you live?

>>1149697
No
>By the way the museums and churches are great.
Is the nutshell of /trv/

>>1152923
What's good man I'm in Riverwest

Yogyakarta .Indonesia
600 000 idr .aprox $70 au a month
For a room in a kost (indonesian boarding house)
Cold water shower. Western style toilet. Fridge. Air con and fan.
Communial kitchen, but it is not worth cooking for yourself when you can buy a complete meal for just a dollar or two from a variety of nearby warungs

>>1148745
>>1149669
400euro for a room or the whole place?
Im leasing spacey rooms in historical building in Brno centre and one room is only 250euro including everything.

I have a ~2000sf house in a small town with a lib-arts college.
I rent extra bedrooms out for 600.

Binh Thanh, Saigon, Vietnam

$400/Month U.S.D

2-Bedroom Western Style Apartment

Internet, Water, Waste, Security etc included. 5min from the center of Saigon.

Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan
$600 US/6 months
Water is included, but I get charged for electricity every 2 months. Plus laundry is basically free.
It's a really small apartment, but since I'm by myself, it's all good.

>>1148391
I don't know why, but that map of the city makes me think it's really cozy.
Is $700 usd/mo enough to live on there?
Pretty girls are everywhere, but how many does Sofia have?
Do you have gyms (if yes and they have a lap pool I'm there by the end of the week)?
What do people do for fun/entertainment?
Does anyone speak english?

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>>1153451
>I don't know why, but that map of the city makes me think it's really cozy.
Some parts can be very, very cozy.

>Is $700 usd/mo enough to live on there?
Yes. Comfortably.

>Pretty girls are everywhere, but how many does Sofia have?
More than you can handle, senpai.

>Do you have gyms (if yes and they have a lap pool I'm there by the end of the week)?
Yes, and yes. I was at a pool/gym combo last month to learn how to swim. It was not an Olympic-sized, but it was a pool. There should be more.

>What do people do for fun/entertainment?
Hike, Skin/Snowboard in near by developed ski slopes, ride ATVs, paintball, go karts, gun ranges, basically every facet of modern day entertainment is available in Sofia.

>Does anyone speak english?
Majority under 25 speak English with a tendency to be fluent.

Pic related, hiked Vitosha mountain and 4th highest peak at 2 290 meters in Bulgaria recently.
It's only 5km from the city.

>>1153416
Are you an expat?

How do you like living in Vietnam?

>>1153337
Yeah. Paris sucks. Not someone in my room though. There are two bedrooms.

>>1151285
>Louisiana
Fucking kek

>>1153468
See you in a couple months after I get my visa organized friend. bye bye metro Detroit.

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>>1153675
Are there any safe areas in Detroit or the Detroit area?

>>1153468
How difficult is it to learn Bulgarian? I don't need to be a walking dictionary, but Id like to be moderately fluent.

>>1148278
You must of been in the middle of downtown in a nice ass place.

Nonetheless I am jelly.

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>>1153688
Hm, that's an interesting question. As you know we all learn at different rates and depends on dedication.

What you should be prepared

>New script, Cyrillic
From all the foreign scripts, I think it's least complicated as far as Latin users are concerned, because for the most part it mirrors letters. In Bulgarian there aren't any outlandish characters like in Greek or any Asian script. Some a bit unorthodox, but nothing in moon. For example: Ю (lowercase: ю), Ъ (lowercase: ъ), Ж (lowercase: ж).

>Some unfamiliar sounds
Ъ is pronounced like the U in grunt, it's very rough

>Gendered nouns
Car is female, pencil is male, etc

>>1149321
How many bedrooms? I rented a room with three flatmates for like 350 europoints

>>1150080
>way better music scene than buffalo
>something to brag about
>still playing cargo short hardcore and math rock in 2016

>>1153416
muh dream

Even though everyone thinks I'm nuts I thought Hanoi was a nicer city though.

>>1153440
My Taiwanese buddy said one could live very very comfortably for under $1000 a month. Eh?

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>>1151285

Canada. 1 bedroom costs me $600 per month. This includes wifi, hydro electricity and laundry. 600 is a steal for the area I live in, usually around 800- 1000 for a decent 1 bdrm here.

Brooklyn, New York (Sunset Park)
1750 for my 1bd, not including utilities (TWC has a stranglehold on the neighborhood so cable/internet is fucking expensive and terrible).

Neighborhood is still heavily hispanic, but tons of white people are starting to move in so it will probably be the next "big" neighborhood after South Slope

>>1151200
Tampa is the up and coming meme city of Florida

>>1148633
Really pretty but the price, holy shit.

Is it worth it though? Or is it suffering?

>>1153328
>>1153331
The whole French language bullshit is exactly what keeps the prices down. If the business language of Montreal went back to English, so many yupsters from the GTA would move in and turn it into another inflated Canadian market

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Reading through this thread has made me realise I need to get the fuck out of Sydney Australia and figure out how I can work getting paid by an aussie company while living elsewhere

I pay $270/week for a room in a 3 bedroom apartment split with my mates (total rent is $820/week, 1 mate pays a bit more to have his own bathroom while 2 of us share the other bathroom)

And we are about 10km from the city so the location isn't great but it's not bad (pic for reference)

>>1153328
>by far the best city in Canada
Visiting for fun is one thing, living here is another.

>not living with your parents

l-m-a-o

>>1149609
Many immigrants find the winter pretty harsh and when you have to use public transportation it's hell.

>>1150033
What up Tucson bro? Lived here all my life, currently paying $200 a month for a room in a house. $400-700 is about right. In a few years this place is gonna be the equivalent of Portland or Austin, it's becoming gentrified. Possibly next year when weed is legali if the law passes

$150 for the month

Voronezh, Russia

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>>1154850
>$150 for the month

>>1154925
As expected of Russia, he is probably in the middle of nowhere sorrounded by snow and -40ºC

>>1154767
>hey babe, I was thinking maybe we could take the bus down to Applebee's, split some appetizers, get my mom to pick us up, then I could put on my pyjamas and we could fool around in my racecar bed ;)

>>1154925
That's pretty expensive considering how shitty a country Russia is.

I live in Port Perry. A one bedroom plus den costs me $930 a month all inclusive.

>>1154950
This guy right

>>1154936
No, Voronezh on Europe part of Russia
Cold, but not -40

>>1148192
Currently in London, paying £950/month for a shared flat in Kensington, but moving to a 1-bed flat for £1210/month next month, not a fan of having housemates.

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>>1154950
>tfw rent in my city is nearly 20x that

>>1154951
Jesus it's that much out that way? Isn't Port Perry like a retirement community of 25k?

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>>1154944
>tfw live with grandma
A-at least im saving to move out

>>1148278
it's funny cus that place is like a block away from skid row.

>>1154925
And the salary is 250. Kek. My salary of 4 k euro pre tax is considered to be 1% here, because I can even travel abroad oh my god!!!

>>1151285
This is such a bad question, I almost think its sarcastic. I hope it is. I hope it's sarcastic and I'm the prick for not getting it.

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Zagreb, Croatia
150-200 euros/month

Not at all expensive, but it still kinda is when you get a minimum wage of 350 euros. Eh, such is Croatia

>>1156238
its sarcasm bro

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Living in Jyväskylä in Central Finland. Population 135 000.

I pay 540€ (around $610) for a 27 sqm studio (290 sqft) and that includes water, parking and internet. The house and apartment I live in was built this year so it's brand new. It's a few kilometers from the city centre but you can get an older and worse (condition wise) apartment for around the same price but most buildings in the centre were built in the 60s so they're getting renovated and rents are on the rise constantly. The area I live in is popular among families with kids so it's peaceful. My neigbours fucking such though.

>>1156552
**suck

>>1150524
lol I know where you live. I went to UF though. Tallahassee is nice. Florida in general is nice except Tampa and Miami. Don't ever come to Alabama or Georgia they suck ass

>>1149675
yeah, 7-800 private sector. i pay 460 for a 1 bedroom apartment, but it's social housing. the waiting list for that is currently 9 years.

>>1156396
Why doesn't everyone live there if it's so cheap?

Cambridge, UK

£875 per month for 2 bedroom flat ($1250)

Moved to Ely, Cambridgeshire, 12 miles outside of the city - £550 per month for 1 bedroom ($790)

Both less than an hour away from London.

Both massively overpriced.

>>1148561
>>1156574

mods ban this please

>>1156584
Well it's a legitimate question. If that guy isn't lying it's 3-4 times cheaper than SEA.

>>1156574
Read the whole post, dumdum.

>>1156588
I read it. Who cares about how poor the locals are? You can get more than that with a blog or a youtube channel or any kind of a passive income, NEETbux are 1.5k euro in most EU countries, so why doesn't everyone from the EU take their NEETbux and live there like a king of the world? You could probably buy people to serve you and do everything for you if you had 1.5k/month and you were from a real country like Finland or something.

Amsterdam 700p.m for a room

>>1156593
Indeed.
So why would Zagreb be any different from all the other cheap spots in the thread?

>>1156612
Because it's apparently not only the cheapest, but no one lives there? Why don't digital nomads go live there instead of in the Philippines?

>>1156613
Zagreb OP here. Because its not as pretty as Philippines, and because the living conditions in croatia are shit in general.

Plus, that 150-200 euros are for a 1 room flat, thought you can get a 2/3 room one for that money, but the bills would be higher.

>>1156614
Why are living conditions shit if everything is so cheap?

>>1156617
Again, because people don't make enough money.
Why is this so hard for you to understand

It's not a couple hundred digital nomads at most who are gonna make a difference.

>>1156622
>Again, because people don't make enough money.
But obviously a foreigner will have enough money to make his living conditions good, so why are we even arguing about this? Life is shit for the locals in all cheap countries because they're too stupid to get an internet business or any international business going on.

>>1156625
>Life is shit for the locals in all cheap countries because they're too stupid to get an internet business or any international business going on.
Right. We should all open our own businesses, and everything will be peachy. Why didn't i think of this before! You are a genius anon! If only i wasn't so stupid, all of my poverty would dissapear!

Truth be told, nothing in this country works the way it should, besides maybe tourism. The government is corrupt, the jobs are few and far inbetween, people with degrees are moving out because all they can find here is some 350 euro/month blue collar job, or perhaps a bartender job somewhere, both of which make you work 12+ hours a day for fuckall

>>1156689
So why can't you just make a basic passive income internet site? Don't you have the internet? What's stopping you specifically?

I live in Fairbanks, AK. Our place is is 775 a month, plus we pay water and electricity. Most places range from 800 to 1000 a month. I don't live in an apartment, I should mention. I live in a real house with a front and back yard, and a garage. It is just a small house.

>>1156699
Nothing is stopping me personally, and i manage in terms of money, but you can't possibly expect to fix the economic state of the entire country by suggesting everyone opens their own website. There would be no poverty in the world if it was that simple.

>>1156760
I don't give a shit about the country? I don't get what you're even talking about here, it's like you're replying to a person in your head.

>>1156774
>Life is shit for the locals in all cheap countries because they're too stupid to get an internet business or any international business going on.

This was your logic. What i took from this is you think life would be better and the economic situation would be ideal if everyone had the brains to open their own business or a website.
My point was that there are much more factors to this.

You are like a broken record. Also,
>Why doesn't everyone live there if it's so cheap?
Why don't you? Same reason

Paris

850 EUR all services included,
1 room, 35Sq m
and it's a cheap one

Wimbledon in SW London. Pay just under £500 for a literal box room. Don't even have space for a wardrobe.

London is a meme

>>1154570
ALL the stores downtown and big business places speak English first, clerks in stores great you in English

The French don't live downtown but almost all of them speak English

There is not a single place in the city, grocery stores, banks, whatever where you cannot be served in English

Please don't speak about things you know nothing about.

All american movies are in their original versions, just like in the States

However the cheap places are far away, and the construction of the buildings is crappy, you get a huge fucking bill for heating, heating is never included (rarely I should say)

The summer is OK you can get anywhere in the city with a bike.

Shitloads of French QTs with no bras with big tits

Winter is absolutely brutal

The Canadian health system is fucked, but Montreal has the absolute worst reputation

Most Americans or Europeans that come here to study end up trying to live here permanently.

It's a 20 minutes drive to the border, 1 hour to the closest US City.

>yupsters from the GTA

There is an entire hood of them called Miles End, again you do not know what the fuck you are talking about.

I've been here for 35 years, but I will move elsewhere because of health issues and I cannot deal with the winters anymore.