Among lots of "young" people I know (in their 20s and 30s), mostly foreigners living here, the consensus is definitely that 300 is the new norm. I've heard it t

Among lots of "young" people I know (in their 20s and 30s), mostly foreigners living here, the consensus is definitely that 300 is the new norm. I've heard it time and time again from different kinds of people living in different neighborhoods in Lisbon. I, myself, am paying 300 (even though I would consider it a 250 euro room), and the landlord wishes to up the rent another 25 euro or so (he tried to get me to rent a smaller room so he could increase the price on mine). Among Portuguese young people, I've also heard many complaints about how hard it is to find a place that isn't a) way too much for what is being offered compared to previous years and b) in the outskirts of town. That being said, I am aware there are rooms for less than 300, but I'm more talking about rooms that aren't "shoeboxes", size-wise.