U start ur life by paying it or chopping it with a woman/gf or ur boys...
Imean this is the same shyt in 2007 brehs...
This is what I was about to say though, it's the same story every era. The going rates 20 years ago, were considered expensive compared to the going rates 20 years before that. The issue is that for the average person, wages and salaries haven't kept up with inflation. If salaries for normal people matched the inflation, would be few complaints...
My apartment 745.00 a month for a one bedroom literally 5 minutes from the city of Chicago
Been living here forever and needs to be painted

but I ain’t paying 1100 for no rent
Which proves my point, there's affordable spots in all these major cities. Mf's just need to really hunt em out. They not gone jump out at you, they hidden amongst more expensive places and newer builds. You gotta put some work in but they are affordable spots in EVERYBODY'S city...
Your post reminds me of riding Amtrak though the boonies in rural VA and rural NC and there was quite a few mostly Black towns in that pocket between Richmond, VA and Rocky Mount, NC. I googled the town's my phone was pinging from. I'm pretty sure most of The Coli never heard of the towns I was looking up, I don't even remember the names of the towns
I wonder how those country brehs are living
I know a chick from Rocky Mount I'm trying knock down

she rebts a 2BR house for 7-something and is trying to get into something cheaper because it's going to like 8-something in April. She born and raised there though, so this is alot to her. I told her just move to The City (Raleigh) and she like "hell nah, I ain't paying city prices, fukk that"

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