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Besides fighting the system, a good solution in cases like this is to find roommates. You can easily drop your rent and utilities cost to a third of what you'd normally pay.
"Easily" seems like a stretch.
Most roommate situations are 2 or 3 people. So that's either half or a third of the cost. I'd call that "easily" yes.
A half or third of the cost... that has been doubled or tripled due to enough space that you're not sleeping together. I lived in a flyover town in a situation similar to the poster. A studio apartment sucks. Trying to shove another person in there is a nightmare, and getting a slightly bigger apartment balloons your rent in a cartoonishly exaggerated manner.
The more rooms an apartment or house has, the less you pay for each one separately. I paid less than €300/month living with 2 other roommates.
Maybe you're talking about the US.
LMAO
Getting roommates is the part I wouldn't call easy.
If you have absolutely no standards, it’s easy. If you’re trying to filter out the assholes who will make your life hell, then you’re right, it’s not easy.
Roommates that one gets along with.