[cakemuncher]

I was making $72k in Houston. Was paying $1000 for a nice apartment $1BD. Moved to Seattle tocmaken $105k with rent costing me $1600.

72k-(1k12months) = $60k $105k-(1.6k12) = $85k

So in total I'm making more in Seattle than I was in Houston.

People are just scared of those high prices because they grew up around apartments that were costing $600/month a decade ago. Times changed and rent went up everywhere but people are still being shocked by those high prices because we're slow to adapt.