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Why would you ever live in a studio if you want to save money?
by NikolaeVarius 9y ago
Why would you ever live in a studio if you want to save money?
- autotune 9y agoWhy would you ever live with roommates if you want to be sane and productive at work each day?
- introvertsexist 9y agoPresumably for sanity & security & sleep. Fuck you; this attitude to rent is the worst part about the bay area. If you want to save money, please avoid the bay at all costs.
- Woofles 9y agoOr consider that the bay is more than SF. I recently moved to Oakland and I'm paying around $1k/mo on rent compared to $2k/mo or more living in the city while not really giving up any of the benefits of living in the area.
- martin1975 9y agoHow's your commute time?
- Woofles 9y agoMy commute is 30-35 minutes each way (walk to Bart, work in downtown SF). For comparison, when I lived in Lower Haight my commute time was 25 minutes each way (MUNI bus a block from my apartment to downtown).
- mikestew 9y agoFuck you; this attitude to rent is the worst part about the bay area. Well, that was uncalled for. I’m willing to bet a paycheck that someone named “Nikolae” lives in a place where “studio” might have a meaning different than it does in the U. S. And so they wonder why you’d live in such an expensive place if you’re trying to save, whereas in the U. S. a studio is the bottom tier of apartment inventory.
- shimon 9y agoJust to clarify, a studio apartment is the smallest and cheapest type of apartment. It usually consists of a single room combining kitchen/living area/bedroom and a bathroom. The only cheaper way to live would be with roommates or family.
- jklein11 9y agoBecause it was the cheapest viable options.
- nkrisc 9y agoUm, what's cheaper than a studio? Anything with one or more bedrooms is going to be more expensive. Perhaps you're not familiar with American apartment terminology or I'm missing something? A studio apartment is as cheap as you can get normally.
- falsedan 9y agoRoom/housemates, an N-bedroom's rent/N is always less than a 1-bedroom (for N > 1)
- nerfhammer 9y agoIt completely depends on the supply of the particular city. SFBA has lots of split level houses that were meant for families a few generations ago and very few studios. Many in this thread seem flabbergasted that a studio would be expensive or could ever be cheap, it's probably based on whatever market they're used to.
- santaclaus 9y ago> Um, what's cheaper than a studio? Having roommates! Rent a victorian with a few roommates in West Oakland. One train stop to San Francisco, way less than 3k a month.
- cbr 9y agowhat's cheaper than a studio? Splitting a several-bedroom apartment several ways. For example, where I live [1] a studio is $1,700 but one room in a 3br is $1,100. [1] http://www.jefftk.com/apartment_prices http://www.jefftk.com/apartment_prices
- JBlue42 9y agoDepends on where you live. When I looked into splitting a place here in LA, it was only $100 less than if I stayed in my studio, with less amenities. I'm lucky, as I'm rent-controlled, but even people I know that live in 4-bedroom houses in not great areas are paying only a little less.
- logfromblammo 9y ago"Studio" is American for "zero-bedroom apartment". It's an advertising-friendly euphemism, just like "garden" is American for "below ground level apartment". An American studio apartment is essentially a hotel room with kitchenette. It has only two doors, one for the bathroom and one to the exterior. Thanks to fire codes, it will usually have at least one escapable window. While it isn't the lowest tier of city housing, it is the smallest type of apartment with significant supply in the US. Dormitories aren't tremendously common away from university campuses, and communal barracks are uncommon outside of the older military bases--where they are generally mothballed until a particular need arises for large quantities of temporary housing.