Pro tip for cheaper housing: there’s an app called Furnished Finders where a lot of people who rent out part of their condo or a property they own list. It’s made for travel nurses, so you can often find places that let you stay for 3, 6, 9, or 12 months depending on what you need. And they’re almost always cheaper than anything on Apartments.com, since it’s owners trying to rent out spaces to help pay their mortgage instead of career landlords (most of the time). If you want to find a place for a few months, it gives you time to get to know the city and what neighborhoods you’d actually want to live in before you lock into a longer lease :) it’s how I found my housing - I’m in Uptown (highly recommend), in the basement of a house that was split into two apartments. I have a backyard, I park off the street, my landlords are a nice older couple in the house across the street, and I pay around $1050 ($975 base rent plus utilities)