> but there's literally no equivalent in the US. You’re kidding me, right? How hard did you actually look? You can find loads of $500 or less apartments (rea

> but there's literally no equivalent in the US. You’re kidding me, right? How hard did you actually look? You can find loads of $500 or less apartments (real ones, not like the shoebox you linked) in the US, and you don’t have to live in the middle of nowhere. Here’s a bunch in Raleigh, NC, which is part of a major tech hub (Research Triangle Park): https://www.apartments.com/raleigh-nc/under-500/ https://www.apartments.com/raleigh-nc/under-500/ The US doesn’t have a housing affordability problem, we have a problem with everyone and their brother, regardless of income level, thinking they should be able to live in heavily populated, high cost of living cities.