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Rent went up 300 a month and I am doing the math on whether I can stay

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Tom Whitfield

7 Sep 2025

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Third year here. Career is finally starting to move. The timing is grimly funny.

5 replies

  1. Sandrine Okafor

    7 Sep 2025

    Move further out before you leave the city. An hour of commute is cheaper than starting over somewhere else.

  2. Marguerite Sowande

    8 Sep 2025

    Roommates. I know. But three years in and starting to move is exactly the wrong time to leave.

  3. Ken Vasquez

    10 Sep 2025

    Look hard at the survival job before the apartment. A better paying flexible job has solved this for more people I know than moving has.

  4. Duncan Yeo

    14 Oct 2025

    I left at exactly this point in 2016 and I regret it. Came back four years later and had to rebuild everything.

  5. Anneke Vos

    16 Oct 2025

    Counterpoint to the above, I left and it was the right call, because I got to keep acting instead of keeping an address. Only you know which one this is.

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