The ones who do it here all have their parents pay for it. Some of our on campus ones are $750 for a tiny one-bedroom. It's why I live off-campus - bigger place for half the rent. I just have to worry about men in my dumpster. :p At Marquette, east of campus is obviously the most expensive, followed by north, and west is the cheapest. I know people who live on, say, 31st & Wells who pay $250 a month for a place that's bigger than mine. They just can't go out alone. And then there's people who live on 7th & Wisc and pay $1000 a month for a place smaller than mine. You have to think of it market-wise. For example, Waukesha County has an average income of of $61k. The people who live in Palmyra-Eagle don't make that it two years, and the people who live on Beaver Lake make that in two months.

pbbt. You should have moved into my old complex on Cass & Kilbourn. Cute little neighbourhood, 2 blocks from the lakefront, totally safe.... 1 br for $450 :p

A nice combination of parental support and graduate fellowships. I do what I can. I figure it's better for me to be closer to school and not have to commute than have a cheaper rent, but have an hour or more commute. I don't pay utilities--just internet. But, if I decide not to live here after grad school, I'll probably move somewhere else with more of an environmentalist ethic.

Okay, for my hometown in Florida (smallish town, right on the Gulf):

Average 1-bedroom: $650
Average "starter" house (1200 sq ft): $85,000
Average "established house" (2500 sq ft): $200K, expect to pay $450+ if you want it on the water or on the golf courses.
Average Income: The military salaries bring it down, so I'd say $55,000.

Realtor.com has a handy-dandy little cost-of-living calculator that shows you what you would need to make in X town making what you would in Y town.

Tom has a very good point-- Kansas City has one of the lowest cost of livings around.
Depending on where you live in the city/ metro area the following are Kc averages...

1br apartment--- around $500, you pay the utilities in most.
Starter house--- $135K-- average 3bed 2 bath house
Average income-- not sure-- I would say around $40K, your link shows $38.

Here is an intersting little tool---- cost of living calculator....
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costo...tofliving.html


-wendi

KC is an inexpensive place to live, and it seems to be a decent place in which to raise a family, but it is terribly sprawled. I think I would rather pay a high rent and have everything at my fingertips like I do here.

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That was Summer of 2001. And really... it was a closet.

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yeah...and keep in mind prices are a lot cheaper during summer months when 70% of the students are gone looking for subletters.

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Actually, it wasn't. I live my boyfriend and most sublets are for single rooms. We were paying his full rent ... far cheaper than two rooms anywhere else!

(and today it probably doesn't retail for much more... )

Shoot, there are houses in Brooklyn that are worth the same amount, if not, more than that. I have an aunt in Ditmas Park section of Brooklyn whose next door neighbors sold their home for over $750,000.00. :eek: :eek:

The houses that are a few blocks away from me go for the same price.

I think that I am going to stay where I am. I really can't afford to buy a new place with these crazy prices.

Fee Fee, I know. Brooklyn is expensive. Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights have been for a long time, but now Ft. Greene and DUMBO are up there, too. :eek:

Gotta love StatCan...

Average apartment rent
http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/comm...veragerent.jpg

Average household income
http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/comm...holdincome.jpg

Average cost of a home in Vancouver is $326,000.

1 bedroom rent: well on capus it's 750 a month to share a bedroom in the on campus apartments with no food or anything... off campus I think it's anywhere from 1200 on up...

2 Average income.... 22, 272


3) Average house cost 404,500 and that is for a NOT NICE neighborhood... (the building across from me just sold for a million dollars.....)


MSN has a cost of living guide/comparison which is where all of this came from......

DUMBO will definitely be expensive b/c of location itself. Even sections like Bedford-Stuyvesant, Flatbush and Crown Heights are getting to be expensive. Like you said, Brooklyn is becoming pricey. I have a friend who owns a 4 bedroom house in Long Island and his mortgage is about $1200 a month. That's the rent for a 2 bedroom apt in some parts of Brooklyn.

Something's wrong with this picture. Besides, it's not like salaries have increased for people either to justify the high cost of living in New York.

I'm from Toronto and if Ottawa is the 3rd most expensive city in Canada, I'm pretty sure Toronto is #2 (or possibly #4...I don't know how expensive Montreal is). I'm positive Vancouver is #1.

Anyway, the cost of a 1 br. apt. will probably run you anywear between 800/month - 2000/month depending on which part of Toronto you're living in (and I am talking about Toronto...not the GTA...not those people who think they live in Toronto...like the people from Mississauga).

The rest I'm not too sure about.

oklahoma
 

1 bedroom apt= 250-375

avg income= 35,000-120,000

gallon of gas= 1.30

new house= 50,000 for a not so nice one
to 250,000 for a pretty nice one. although they can be a lot more expensive. my dad owns a construction company and is currently building a 3 million dollar house, but this thing is unreal. the guy is like some heart doctor from edmond