Another day, another unwelcome reminder that this city is freaking expensive. The SF Business Times reports that rents in San Francisco jumped 8.1 percent since only the last quarter. That puts the average rental unit at a jarring $3,350 a month, which pushes the annual cost of keeping rain off of your laptop above $40,000. And the $4,600 cost of the average two-bedroom is now way, way above New York’s $3,500, so you can tell your friends in Bushwick to quit rolling their eyes now.
Just how bad is it, really? Well, if you aren’t able to snag a $1200 1-BR at Dolores and 20th, consider some new deconstruction in the Richmond. A gaping vacancy just opened up at the intersection of Lake and 6th Avenue with a “sun roof and exciting ambient city soundscapes.”
It’s not especially private, but people are usually quite respectful of orange highway cones. And unlike everybody else’s apartment, which is gradually getting smaller as you accumulate more stuff and add layers of paint to the walls, this one is getting bigger fast. Snap it up now and it might be at several hundred cubic feet by the time the rainy weather is over.
[Via SF Business Times; Craigslist]
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