ironically my real life is getting better but my emotional life? lmao. anyways so finding an apt in NYC is awful and i was having such a hard time on these websites. nyc is no longer the most expensive city it’s just up there with all the rest atp. sf, la, boston, dc and i’m sure tx will get up there. hawaii is actually the most expensive place to live period. when i lived in london though i was paying for some old old houses and shit my last place, though needed cleaning, was my fav. i lived in a split level house with 3 other people in the property. we were in the basement, we had a backyard, i had a huge window in my room and i lived with 4 ppl (5 at some point) there was a second bathroom and 2 bedrooms at the top. now like……..modernity wise it wasnt perfect bc mold and england and landlords are trash. but i LOVED that place so fucking much, it was big and so convenient in the shouth which i loved bc diversity. but i never paid more than 900 USD a month to live in my places in LONDON so i was like i KNOW this is ridic. my cousin and his wife live in fucking harlem, have a dog, and a baby on the way and pay like 2.5k/mo for their place there’s nO FUCKING WAY that every single place im looking is this atrocious like i know. and then….i found it. as expected, my senses were right. i am not being shown things at all and the filters are BAD. google google and saw this and thankfuckinggod so it can be helpful and i can figure out a fucking place we can go bc my god. fuck capitalism man

https://cityobservatory.org/a-field-guide-to-median-rent-statistics-contd/