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Rented a flat in Tokyo for a month too as a tourist. But it wasn't cheap. Around $1500/month, in 2011. But it was 3 rooms, and very nice. So maybe not so bad, a
by flemhans 2y ago
Rented a flat in Tokyo for a month too as a tourist. But it wasn't cheap. Around $1500/month, in 2011. But it was 3 rooms, and very nice. So maybe not so bad, actually? But then again, it was many years ago.
- Foobar8568 2y ago3 rooms, in Tokyo, for a month, is bloody cheap unless I miss something.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoPretty much all non-luxury housing in Tokyo is built to a much lower standard than equivalent housing built in say Canada or the US in the same time period. Much thinner wall insulation, single glazed windows (until recently), much smaller elevators in high rises, etc… So on a quality and square footage adjusted basis it’s still quite expensive.
- shiroiushi 2y agoNot really: the difference is that "lower standard" housing of the same age simply doesn't exist in the US. You want a small, 20-30 year old apartment in a decent building with small elevators and everything is maintained well and isn't broken, and you don't want roommates, and at an affordable price for you on your non-tech job paycheck? You can't have that in a decent American city; it doesn't exist. It's either some very expensive "luxury" apartment (where stuff is still broken, but hey, it has granite countertops and new appliances that'll break down in a year!) where you'll need roommates, or some nasty shithole (where you'll probably still need a rooomate).
- MichaelZuo 2y agoThere are no middle class to upper middle class condominiums in the urban areas of any US city? Families settling down in a decent 3 or 4 bedroom condo is rarer in the US than Canada, but it can’t possibly be zero.
- ethbr1 2y agoIndicative: try and find a US apartment with crown moulding.
- Twisol 2y agoMy studio apartment in California is $1500/month. At the same price, I would be in a 3-room Tokyo flat yesterday!
- fragmede 2y agoAnd that's on the cheaper end of California!
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- Twisol 2y agoIt really is! I got very, very lucky for the area I'm in, believe me. I'm not moving out until I'm out of the area for good.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoI just left an apartment in Shanghai that was two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen for $700 / month. I was advised that prices have come down over the last year, so that if I was planning to renew my lease I should negotiate a lower price.
- soperj 2y agoStudio in BC for over $2500 a month.
- dragonwriter 2y agoWell, yeah, I bet that studio was substantially cheaper in 2011, though, which was the date on the Tokyo apartment.
- CPLX 2y agoThat is comically cheap.
- digging 2y agoI feel like everyone is missing "in 2011".
- weberer 2y agoYeah, that's $2,102.58 in 2024 dollars due to a 40.2% cumulative rate of inflation since then according to usinflationcalculator.com
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- shiroiushi 2y agoWe're talking about apartments in Japan, not the US. The high inflation rate in the US doesn't apply here.
- weberer 2y agoIt does since we're using US dollars to describe it since each dollar is not worth less than it used to relative to other objects.
- Klonoar 2y agoFor whatever reason, people in our generation seem completely unaware of how often they cite things from 15-20 years ago. I've taken to pointing out that it's like if someone in the 90s used advice from the 70s. For whatever reason, it tends to put things in perspective timeframe-wise.
- flemhans 2y agoI'd still like the data point. Disclaimer: I was the old fart who posted that.