I pay $2.6k a month in rent. I have friends that pay $3.1k+ in New York and Boston and Seattle (Seattle is a bit of a different story but nonetheless). I was t

I pay $2.6k a month in rent. I have friends that pay $3.1k+ in New York and Boston and Seattle (Seattle is a bit of a different story but nonetheless). I was talking to a guy the other day living in a sub400 sqft place in lower manhattan in a non-luxury unit paying $2.5k.