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Originally posted by KLPDaisy
Haha I know what you mean. A lot of the rents that people have posted on here wouldn't even get you a cardboard box in a prime location in Central Park.
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But, on the other hand, y'all get paid more because of cost of living, and you don't need cars! It's all relative. I have two friends up there, now, one going to Columbia and one going to NYU, and I have NO CLUE how they pay rent off of what they were making in SC. I guess TONS of student loans.
My rent, btw, is $599+$19 water fee. It's a one bedroom with a walk-in closet, bathroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, pantry/laundry room, HUGE patio, and an outdoor storage space. I live in a lake-front apartment complex (though my apartment building doesn't look out onto the water... just onto a pond) with pool, putt-putt, tennis courts, free security system, and it's a gated complex, so you can only get in with an invitation from a resident (although sometimes they randomly leave the gates open). Market rent for my apartment is $750, but since they're trying to fill the complex (it's only a couple of years old) they're offering low rent. The other apartment complex in town is $575 (I don't know what their water fee is) but it's a lot older and not as nice (as well as being occupied by some rather, er, redneck people). The houses in this city (Lake Wylie, SC) range from about $80,000 (for a really small townhouse with no air... I looked into buying it, then wised up) to the millions of dollars. Larry Johnson, ex-Charlotte Hornet, used to live across the lake from where I live now, if that gives you any clue what kind of community I live in. I moved here because the country club that I work at is in this town, but it's really nice and safe and because of the economy here, there are a lot of really classy people who live here. Plus, my parents live in Clover, which is about 20 minutes away (technically Lake Wylie is part of Clover, but that's a whole other story), so they're close enough that I can go visit them for whatever, but far enough away that I can lead my own life.
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