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This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband
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Californian here. Studios are starting around $3,200 where I live in socal.
man... i remember paying 800 a month for a studio in the bay area in 2006. And that studio was right on the water with an ocean view. $3200 is absolutely disgusting.
I have a cousin who lives in LA. He rents a studio for something like $1100 a month, in a decent part of the city. Apparently it's rent-controlled, which is something I've never heard of as far as Los Angeles is concerned.
To be honest, I heard of all this through his mother. I kind of suspect he's lying to her and is actually a drug dealer and his place costs a lot more than he's letting on.
He's a drug dealer. There's nothing in LA for anything near $1100 lol. $3k is the minimum for a 2 bedroom place absolute minimum.
is it not possible to move to a place with houses which are lower in price?
In Australia it's not really possible because everyone did that and now houses are high in price literally everywhere but surely in America they would have more states and places that have lower house prices?
not for a lot of people when every single fuckface ceo is trying to get people to RTO.