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Originally Posted by tri deezy
Yikes is exactly what I thought. She was living in a one bedroom place until she felt ready to move in with her boyfriend. Now that they live together they split rent, which is much more reasonable. I couldn't fathom not living with a roommate in this area. It's really absurd. She definitely didn't want to live above her means. Our places here really are nice, but not that nice. It's the kind of area where you have to pay a lot just to not share your apartment with mice and cockroaches. Hahaha.
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I live in DC, too -- I'd be surprised if the majority of people around our age aren't spending close to 50% of their salary on rent. It's hella expensive to live here. I was ECSTATIC to find our current place for $1500 a month.
I felt very posh to be making 30k at my first job out of school since I was surrounded by Hill staffers making 25k (I had one friend who got paid 18k to work on the Hill
). I do make considerably more than that now.