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jrockway on July 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The San Francisco Rent Explosion

Apartment hunting in Chicago is a dream. Each apartment you visit is nicer than the last, and $2000 a month practically buys you a palace.

Meanwhile in New York, you pay a broker $10,000 for the privilege of paying $2500 a month to sublet a room a family of cockroaches only uses at night.

rayiner on July 19, 2013 [–]

My spacious 28th floor 1BR apartment (~600 square feet) in a highrise in downtown Chicago cost about as much as my studio (~430 square feet) in a satellite city 15 miles away from Manhattan.

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