• tygerprints@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    In Utah (where I am) renters are unable to rent at all anymore. Housing and rent prices are higher here than they are in Hawaii. I was in a single bedroom apartment (admittedly a nicer one with lots of space and a great view) but I paid through the nose, almost twice as much as I made in a month at my job. It was ridiculous, and that was back in 2018.

    Now the prices are so high, even people with six figure incomes are out in the street. There is no affordable housing here in Utah anymore. The small one-bedroom brick home my grandparents lived in (which I think they bought fro about $45,000 back in the day) is now going for 6 million dollars.

    And that’s in a very LOW rent neighbhorhood. Houses here are only being bought by people in other states with mega amounts of money, who then turn around and use them as rental properties for people visiting from other rich states.

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      10 months ago

      Isn’t Utah a large state? Why is their no development?

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        10 months ago

        There’s actually development going on everywhere. Where I grew up in Utah it was all fields and very open, now it’s all developed into high rise high price condos. And everywhere you go here, is under some kind of new housing development. They can’t make them fast enough to keep up with the demand.

        Now I have no idea why people want to move here and why housing demand is so high here. Of all places to live! Of course I’m probably just sick of Utah having lived here for so long. There are tons of jobs here, but they are all low wage unless you’re a lawyer or a surgeon.

        If I had my choice I sure as hell wouldn’t be here, they can have my spot.