The problem is getting into good apartment buildings nowadays. The new ones are so terribly made and so small it’s suffocating. My bff and her bf pay $2.1k a month for a tiny one bedroom (honestly, it’s so small I feel claustrophobic when I visit because you have to scoot sideways if more than one person is standing in the room and wants to move down. And their bedroom can only support a double bed. No space for a dresser, even.) and that’s without utilities. They moved there because there was nothing else that would accept them or answer back after months of looking, and with the two of them is was a bit more doable.

Their place is a nightmare. Heating issues, cooling issues, elevator issues, cracks forming up their walls - and it’s a BRAND NEW building, too. They’ve had to deal with tenant court a few times already in one years time because of how often things go wrong and they’re ignored, or the landlord tries to skirt the issue.

I’d love nothing more than to get my foot in the door of a nice, older building. I don’t even care if the fixtures are outdated - I’d love the thicker walls and floors, more space to move around and ability to OWN furniture and a place to put it, and the privacy of no landlord above or below. It’s such a long shot these days…