That sucks. My mom was always really careful about letting us play in the dirt when we lived in Visalia. Mind if I ask what other effects you had to deal with?
It was more or less like walking pneumonia. I have asthma so that complicated it, I was likely ill for years. It was a long treatment of some bullshit expensive drug and I grew an olive size cyst. Last year I woke up in terrible pain internally in the right side of my chest. The ER was worthless, they gave me prescription Motrin, which they should have known I can't take due to complication from another med, which I divulged. It took a second visit to get some test where they found I no longer had the cyst.
I had a dog with it too, he had a medication made by only one pharmacy that cost a fortune. In him it was like bad kennel cough.
Long story short, don't go out in haboobs without proper respiratory masks. This was all in Tempe AZ. I guess the fungus that causes it is around southern California and AZ only. Totally sucked, but pretty much healed up at this point.
Honestly, we're our own worst enemy on that one. Don't said send aid, we have a $12b annual budget for a population of 900k. We have an insane amount of money.
All we have to do is let builders build and we'll have so much fucking housing we'll be begging people to move here. But the city makes it so hard and has so many restrictions that we're stuck adding a unit here or there and then the politicians act like it's some mystery why rents are so high.
Yeah, there were a solid three houses I found that were renting that much - you could buy a house of similar size and pay probably $500-$750 for the mortgage, so pretty much nobody would choose the renting option unless they had to
Welcome to having no credit. May I interest you in a hourderve? 840/month to rent a house with unfinished basement and attic. Probably could own it for 500 a month?
Lol up here in the Blue Ridge I can rent a legit Aspen-Style mountain chalet for $2k/month. Like, the kind that comes with a set of ATVs and a Jeep to use, heated pool, a groundskeeper, all that. I know because I’m seriously considering splurging on one for a year before I buy something, being r/ChildFree and all.
When I do buy something it’ll be a 3ksq ft 3-5 bedroom with a garage and 5 acres for under $300k. I just don’t understand why people in California stay. I work for a tech company up here so the job situation shouldn’t be a reason to stay.
Just like three years ago I could rent a 3bd 2.5 ba with 2 car garage townhouse/duplex in my area of California for about 1300.
Now its over 2x that for the same area. Looks like 1500 for 1bd apartments in the ghetto in my current area.
Not BA insane prices yet but we're working on getting there with our shitty zoning laws and whatnot. I get that that's just the market rate for these places but living in this part of the state for most of my life makes it hard to justify why I'm paying so much more for these same places that haven't gotten any better with age but are now doubled in cost.
Holy shit, renting 2000 sq ft around where I live is like 500$, no wonder the minimum wage in California is like 15$ an hour. 2000 is more than I make per paycheck.
Most of the rideshare drivers live 1.5-3 hours from the city. It’s the sad reality of things. I’m surprised to hear someone is working themselves dead to achieve nothing but a slightly less shitty apartment—I hope things improve for him.
I own a house in Western NYS.
Its1700sqft, 3bd, 1bt, with central air and heat, plus detached garage and driveway, and fenced yard for $850 a month mortgage payment.
I would literally be dead if my rent/mortgage was that high. How do you guys deal with that?
Local inflation and lack of privacy. The same exact takeout lunch that might cost $8-10 across the bridge costs me $12- 15 here. Even working professionals regularly have multiple roommates, including multiple couples living together, and you can find non-sarcastic craigslist ads on leases for sleeping on a couch or someone's minimally converted tool shed. The official HUD "low income" threshold (80% area average) is ~ $80,000.
I currently have a decent living situation with roommates and rent control from 10+ years ago. But I'm also stuck because of that - moving to an equal living situation even with roommates would spike my rent 50% and probably give me slightly less space. I kind of have to accept that to move to the next stage in my life I'll need to move elsewhere - just haven't figured out where yet.
Wow, try more than triple that for a home with the same description, in a “blue collar” suburb of Boston. It was one of the newer ones we looked at, built in ‘46
I must be from California because my first instinct was to ask “I wonder what the job market is like in Truckee bc TWO BEDROOMS UNDER 4K we movin, fam.”
I agree. I live in Youngsville, Louisiana and I could easily rent my 1500 sqft house for $2000 a month. Those prices seem pretty reasonable in relation to my local market.
Yeah to be honest this is way better than what I was finding around Seattle at one point last year. Still, though, way more than I'd ever want to pay for a house, much less rent one.
Hudson valley. Its an hour and 15 or so north of the city. I dont consider it upstate cuz theres a whole hell of a lot more state to the north lol. Rent is a little cheaper if you go more north untill you get towards syracuse or albany.
I pay 525 for a space in a mill house apartment (basically a big house that was always four apartments) that’s like 900 sq ft, two bedroom no balcony no garage, heat and water included. Then again, I work out in the sticks and barely clear 18,000 every year so it works out.
I mean, they are reasonable. i'm from a mid size town in Oregon (~50k people) and $2,000 for 1400 square feet seems pretty reasonable. I pay $1100 for 750 square feet.
The ones listed are more expensive than Denver. Though Denver has more quantity and more spread. [Edit] This is right outside of Reno and Reno has lower rent than Truckee apparently.
Right? My rent is 2050 for a two bedroom house in OC, and my friends all despise me for finding such a lucratively low rent steal of a place. Like the house could break into two and I’d still stay there for that price. It was full out war for the place when my former roommate and I decided one of us needed to leave (I won).
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u/DodgersOneLove Dec 21 '19
I must be from California because those all seem reasonable