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Oh, so much. I’m willing to struggle to get places without a car for a whole extra year entirely because I don’t want to leave this apartment. It’s the best thing I can afford. I could split a dope house in DC with musician roommates again, but living alone for once and keeping my space actually clean is niceeeee.

 

there’s like 800 besides this in Pittsburgh. If you’ve never been to Pittsburgh and drive through that tunnel and see the city it’s pretty amazing.

 

Keep in mind though @CarpetElf that was 2019.

We were paying $600 in rent each. And I was working at a place that was never slow and made me $200-$400 a day without fail.

That’s probably the most disposable income I ever had. Now, four years later, I finally have a job that’s that consistent again but I’m paying $1200 in rent here (plus $400 for my practice space)

 

And $1200 is still cheap as FCK to live in an ideal, central location by yourself in any city in the northeast right now

 

$1,200 for what’s a studio?

 

Yeah, but a 700 sq ft studio with a deck on the entire roof and a neat little patio area under the deck, so it’s not what you’d usually picture when you think studio

 

$1,815 in my old complex technically in the Boston city limits with a deck but no patio area and 350 total square feet lol

 

Yeah I was gonna say no way Dave thinks 1200 is expensive haha

 

No it’s a fucking steal lmao

 

That complex was like 15 miles still from actual Boston

 

I was desperately scrambling to find affordable housing in DC and this spot kept tempting me and tempting me and tempting me. It was the only apartment in my price range available in this whole part of Baltimore. And all it had was a picture of the roof. I had no idea what it was like inside, even. Just, $1200, in a part of Baltimore I’ve always liked and been curious about living in.

But as I kept looking at shitty ass DC apartments that cost $1600 fucking dollars to live in someone’s dark tile floor basement or to live near the landfill and down a 800 foot hill from the nearest metro station… I kept seeing that $1200 spot in Baltimore. I kept saying “nah it’s way too far from the train station I can’t keep my job in DC. There’s no metro.” Etc

but then my job in DC started being shitty. And then I tried to get a practice space in DC but it’s literally all hourly practice rooms that cost like $30-$40 a fucking hour and have nowhere to store your gear, unless you know someone who owns a space themselves. So one day I went up there “just to look at it”. And I signed a lease that day, called up a (monthly, non-shared) practice space facility and rented a practice room that night, and got a fine dining job in the neighborhood the next week lol.

I’ve learned not to underestimate my ability to maximize my budget and find a way to get exactly what I want haha. My process for moving to Atlanta without a car was very similar, I found a place and two jobs and signed a lease within the 4 days I was visiting my uncle there

 

We had a 1br/1ba just under 700sq/ft without a patio in Tampa for $1800 and we left because they were increasing rent after a building sale lol

 

YIKES

 

Isn’t the whole point of Florida that it’s affordable?

 

This is where I fundamentally disagree with Spiffa, and it’s not to judge anyone because ya do what you gotta do, but paying $2,000-$2,500/month in rent is so much more egregious than paying $3,500-$4,000 in mortgage imo.

 

That was the whole point of me moving back down there in 2015 yeah. It got fucking stupid down there during the pandemic. I feel bad for my Jax friends who are just scared to move away and try anything different. Life can be way better yall lol (of course if you got family and especially kids there it’s hard, so I get it. Couple of my good friends there are divorced dads.)

 

Granted part of it was the location but it’s not really affordable anymore.

Our current rent is $2400 but it’s almost 1700 sq/ft and my sister is living with us so it’s just $1600 for me and Sarah.

 

Me and Matt’s rent in Jacksonville was $900 a month.

We had an entire (modest sized, single level) house with four bedrooms and a nice backyard. We were 3 to 7 miles from every decent urban neighborhood of Jacksonville, consistently only a 5 to 10 minute drive to get to all the music venues and good restaurants and the Jags stadium etc.

but also separated from the majority of the traffic, and closer to the beach than most of my friends (roughly 30 minutes, 40-45 in rush hour traffic)

 

yeah you know how you can just say whatever you want and it doesn't have to be true? it's like that.

 

I will never regret this because I learned how to play drums, play bass, use effects pedals, promote shows, and book tours cause I had the fuckin money and the rehearsal space in my cheap house to do it. Only thing I didn’t do that I shoulda done is record a goddamn album but I wasted too much time thinking I could do it by myself and not sound like shit lol

 

i will take 2k rent over 4k mortgage all day every day.

 

To each their own of course and all circumstances are different, but rent just feels like lighting money on fire to me.

 

If rent vs. own was a 1:1 thing sure. but if it's double the cost monthly on top of all the other costs?

 

Idk I wish I could buy a house right now and just… have it when I’m old

wish I woulda ever done the math… duh, 30 year mortgage = you better own by 35 if you want to retire motherfucker. I fucked up lol

 

I don’t even need to play the housing market and flip house after house. MAYBE once in my life I’d wanna upgrade from a fixer upper to something nicer. Or maybe I stuck with the fixer upper and make it absolutely awesome and make that my middle age hobby once I decide to stop pushing so hard for music.

I just like the idea of having a house and it’s yours and (well, minus taxes) you don’t have to worry about where you’re gonna live ever again. Moving a lot has been fun and all experience-wise, but stress wise… I’m almost 34 and the longest I’ve lived anywhere since I was a baby is 5 years, with most of my adult life being 1 year leases. I’m fucking tired y’all lol. If I had the money I’d pick one of the 18 cities I love and stay in it.