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Competition at the $500 per week range is intense, because there are many people who can't afford more than that.

rkomorn 11mo ago
Off topic but: seeing rent measured per week is so very strange (to me; and I suspect to most Europeans and US/Canadians).
- BirdieNZ 11mo ago
  It's not uncommon in NZ/Aus to be paid weekly and pay rent weekly. I find monthly rent to be just as strange!
  - rkomorn 11mo ago
    Let's split the difference and go bi-weekly. Or bi-monthly. Or some other arbitrary period we can define "ambiguously".
    - nandomrumber 11mo ago
      Olympic swimming pools of rent.
      - rkomorn 11mo ago
        That sounds like a lot. Like, Uncle Scrooge amounts.
    - roenxi 11mo ago
      You don't need to argue it out with HN, if you want to negotiate landlords generally are happy to at least consider it. I've paid rent as an annual lump sum before.
  - lesuorac 11mo ago
    Somebody needs to teach NZ/Aus the concept of the float. I worked somewhere they moved payday by 1d explicitly for financial reasons ...
- dzhiurgis 11mo ago
  Makes more sense since most live week-by-week. Similar to how AM/PM notation makes more sense since it's how we tell time. US date format is harder to defend, but...
  - rkomorn 11mo ago
    I'll be called a heretic but, a couple of years ago (after being back in a country that uses day/month/year instead of the US), I came to the conclusion that the month/day notation is actually more useful to me. Quite often, the month of the date is more relevant to me than the day. Knowing at a glance whether something is happening in the same month as the current day, or in the same month as some other date, is more convenient, as is being able to easily group things by month visually. And yeah, I can definitely acknowledge month/day/year makes no sense, but it works for me.
- freefaler 11mo ago
  Landlords earn more that way, because months are 28,30,31 days but weeks are constant 52/year, even in leap years.
  - rkomorn 11mo ago
    The house always wins, I guess.

Off topic but: seeing rent measured per week is so very strange (to me; and I suspect to most Europeans and US/Canadians).

BirdieNZ 11mo ago
It's not uncommon in NZ/Aus to be paid weekly and pay rent weekly. I find monthly rent to be just as strange!
- rkomorn 11mo ago
  Let's split the difference and go bi-weekly. Or bi-monthly. Or some other arbitrary period we can define "ambiguously".
  - nandomrumber 11mo ago
    Olympic swimming pools of rent.
    - rkomorn 11mo ago
      That sounds like a lot. Like, Uncle Scrooge amounts.
  - roenxi 11mo ago
    You don't need to argue it out with HN, if you want to negotiate landlords generally are happy to at least consider it. I've paid rent as an annual lump sum before.
- lesuorac 11mo ago
  Somebody needs to teach NZ/Aus the concept of the float. I worked somewhere they moved payday by 1d explicitly for financial reasons ...
dzhiurgis 11mo ago
Makes more sense since most live week-by-week. Similar to how AM/PM notation makes more sense since it's how we tell time. US date format is harder to defend, but...
- rkomorn 11mo ago
  I'll be called a heretic but, a couple of years ago (after being back in a country that uses day/month/year instead of the US), I came to the conclusion that the month/day notation is actually more useful to me. Quite often, the month of the date is more relevant to me than the day. Knowing at a glance whether something is happening in the same month as the current day, or in the same month as some other date, is more convenient, as is being able to easily group things by month visually. And yeah, I can definitely acknowledge month/day/year makes no sense, but it works for me.
freefaler 11mo ago
Landlords earn more that way, because months are 28,30,31 days but weeks are constant 52/year, even in leap years.
- rkomorn 11mo ago
  The house always wins, I guess.