[chrismbarr]

As a non New Yorker that price for the square footage is astronomical to me! I live in a small rural town in Georgia and I pay $890 a month to rent a 1618 sq foot house (+ a large front porch). The house is over 100 years old and it for sure has it's quirks, but for the price it's great. I can live in this house for 3-4 months for the cost of 1 month in that apartment which is about 1/5th the size!

I know that New York salaries are typically higher to compensate, but I work remote for a company as a front-end designer/dev and make a good living without having to pay "big city" prices. I get the appeal of living in a big with though, Atlanta is near by and I love visiting; but I greatly prefer saving my money and/or spending it on things other than expensive rent.

[cauterized]

Nah, that price per square foot is pretty high even by NYC standards (almost double what's typical for that neighborhood, which is expensive fore city as a whole but middle-high for Manhattan).

And one of the things you learn here pretty quickly is that you don't REALLY need all that much space. My first apartment was about 300 sqft, and a third of it went entirely unused. My current studio is probably 450, and while I have a ton more stuff now than I did then, the amount of space is more than adequate. I wouldn't know what to do with 1600 sqft even with a spouse and kids! Oh, and costs about 2/3 as much as that apartment, in an arguably nicer neighborhood in Brooklyn. /shrug

We each have our own priorities for what we're willing to pay for.