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Can you get a 500 sq ft apartment for $700 in the USA? My impression was that it’s gotten more expensive than that. Definitely for a 2nd tier city. Maybe not fo

by awongh 2y ago

Can you get a 500 sq ft apartment for $700 in the USA? My impression was that it’s gotten more expensive than that. Definitely for a 2nd tier city. Maybe not for an n tier city….

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smeej 2y ago
You can in Indianapolis. I guess I don't know how people determine "tiers," but Wikipedia tells me it's the 16th largest U.S. city.
kulahan 2y ago
5 years ago in Alabama, I rented a 1200 sq ft apartment for $750/mo. This was in Prattville. No clue if it's still that cheap, but yeah, $700/500sqft is super believable. In a *city* of population > X?
- htrp 2y ago
  1200 sq ft apartments are now 1100 at the cheapest to 2k on average in Prattville Alabama.
Syonyk 2y ago
Sure. I found a handful in smaller towns in Iowa without any trouble. Even in Ames, Iowa (home of Iowa State University, 65k people per the 2020 census and I'm not sure how many of ISU's 30k students that counts), I'm finding a range of apartments in the $700-$800 range that are 500+ sq ft. On Zillow, so hardly the best pricing one is likely to be able to arrange. Now, it's not San Francisco, but the point is that even in a not-tiny-town, an apartment (or even some smaller standalone homes!) for the cost of a twin mattress sized sleeping pod is totally doable.
- awongh 2y ago
  I looked on Zillow and there are indeed some places at that price. I looked here to find other places I'm familiar with: https://gist.github.com/Miserlou/11500b2345d3fe850c92 https://gist.github.com/Miserlou/11500b2345d3fe850c92 and found that Ames is somewhere near Cupertino haha. I wonder how it compares to other places in the USA in terms of affordability and what the other dimensions of price are in the same price range. (For example Cheyenne WY also similar in population.) Ames, IA I would say qualifies as n tier in the sense that it seems like it's a suburb of Des Moines? And Des Moines is probably a fourth tier city?
  - Syonyk 2y ago
    ... "near Cupertino" in population, not geographically. Okay, that makes much more sense. It's not really a "suburb of Des Moines" - though eventually, as they grow, it may be considered that. It's 30 miles north of Des Moines, through an awful lot of rural Iowa. I'd consider a "suburb" to be "generally built up when traveling between A and B," though there's some flexibility in that definition. But Ames is its own place from Des Moines.

by awongh 2y ago

Can you get a 500 sq ft apartment for $700 in the USA? My impression was that it’s gotten more expensive than that. Definitely for a 2nd tier city. Maybe not for an n tier city….

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smeej 2y ago

You can in Indianapolis. I guess I don't know how people determine "tiers," but Wikipedia tells me it's the 16th largest U.S. city.

kulahan 2y ago

5 years ago in Alabama, I rented a 1200 sq ft apartment for $750/mo. This was in Prattville. No clue if it's still that cheap, but yeah, $700/500sqft is super believable. In a *city* of population > X?

htrp 2y ago
1200 sq ft apartments are now 1100 at the cheapest to 2k on average in Prattville Alabama.

Syonyk 2y ago

Sure. I found a handful in smaller towns in Iowa without any trouble. Even in Ames, Iowa (home of Iowa State University, 65k people per the 2020 census and I'm not sure how many of ISU's 30k students that counts), I'm finding a range of apartments in the $700-$800 range that are 500+ sq ft. On Zillow, so hardly the best pricing one is likely to be able to arrange. Now, it's not San Francisco, but the point is that even in a not-tiny-town, an apartment (or even some smaller standalone homes!) for the cost of a twin mattress sized sleeping pod is totally doable.

awongh 2y ago
I looked on Zillow and there are indeed some places at that price. I looked here to find other places I'm familiar with: https://gist.github.com/Miserlou/11500b2345d3fe850c92 https://gist.github.com/Miserlou/11500b2345d3fe850c92 and found that Ames is somewhere near Cupertino haha. I wonder how it compares to other places in the USA in terms of affordability and what the other dimensions of price are in the same price range. (For example Cheyenne WY also similar in population.) Ames, IA I would say qualifies as n tier in the sense that it seems like it's a suburb of Des Moines? And Des Moines is probably a fourth tier city?
- Syonyk 2y ago
  ... "near Cupertino" in population, not geographically. Okay, that makes much more sense. It's not really a "suburb of Des Moines" - though eventually, as they grow, it may be considered that. It's 30 miles north of Des Moines, through an awful lot of rural Iowa. I'd consider a "suburb" to be "generally built up when traveling between A and B," though there's some flexibility in that definition. But Ames is its own place from Des Moines.