{"items": [{"author": "Ruthan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668450018682", "anchor": "fb-668450018682", "service": "fb", "text": "Darn, I was hoping I'd get to make the \"save more money, share your bedroom\" joke :)", "timestamp": "1405605895"}, {"author": "Sarah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668455008682", "anchor": "fb-668455008682", "service": "fb", "text": "Wow.  So little housing in Dorchester.", "timestamp": "1405608653"}, {"author": "Jillian", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668555666962", "anchor": "fb-668555666962", "service": "fb", "text": "Wow, my Manhattan apartment was cheaper than your averages. I'm struck by how much money you can save by living in Philadelphia!", "timestamp": "1405684826"}, {"author": "Catherine", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668593556032", "anchor": "fb-668593556032", "service": "fb", "text": "location is clearly the biggest factor, yes. I'm paying -- ready? take a deep breath -- $350 a month, INCLUDING utilities (water, electricity, trash, internet) to share a 2-bedroom house in South Bend this year. I could have gotten a 1-bedroom easily for $600-700 or so. Less if I'd been in a shadier area or worked to find a deal.", "timestamp": "1405712719"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668600087942", "anchor": "fb-668600087942", "service": "fb", "text": "@Catherine: Yes, location is a big factor, both in terms if which metro area and where more locally.", "timestamp": "1405716810"}, {"author": "Richard", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668604449202", "anchor": "fb-668604449202", "service": "fb", "text": "Decade is a big factor too. I still remember I had a nice three room apartment on East 9th St. and Ave. C in Manhattan for $45 a month--and in a nice building with screens, storm windows and no cockroaches!  (This was about 1968.)  Although... there were some summer nights I stayed with friends rather than going home because of little wars going on between the police and some of the local residents.", "timestamp": "1405719329"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668606175742", "anchor": "fb-668606175742", "service": "fb", "text": "@Richard: To be fair, $45 in 1968 is about $310 now.", "timestamp": "1405720561"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668625062892", "anchor": "fb-668625062892", "service": "fb", "text": "Even adjusting for inflation, seems like rent for  Richard 's former dwelling has increased a lot! Sounds like it's a more desirable neighborhood than then though, so that's one explanation ...", "timestamp": "1405734564"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668625252512", "anchor": "fb-668625252512", "service": "fb", "text": "...  But another factor leading to the price of urban dwelling space increasing over time is that its availability has remained relatively fixed due to restrictive zoning.  (This is even more of a problem in SF than NY.)", "timestamp": "1405734732"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668633665652", "anchor": "fb-668633665652", "service": "fb", "text": "@Richard: By \"three room\" do you mean \"three bedroom\" or \"one bedroom\" (bedroom, kitchen, living room).", "timestamp": "1405741705"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668635407162", "anchor": "fb-668635407162", "service": "fb", "text": "Looking at 1 bedrooms in that area now, I'm shocked to see a $600 and a $800 [edit: this is wrong] . But everywhere from 1500 to 4k or so is quite common (a larger range than I expected).", "timestamp": "1405742995"}, {"author": "Richard", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668637857252", "anchor": "fb-668637857252", "service": "fb", "text": "Hi Jeff. One bedroom.", "timestamp": "1405744605"}, {"author": "Jillian", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668652732442", "anchor": "fb-668652732442", "service": "fb", "text": "David, where are you looking? Some of those might actually be listings for one bedroom IN A 3BR, but they don't tell you that until you call. Or they're just straight up scams.", "timestamp": "1405770369"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668672662502", "anchor": "fb-668672662502", "service": "fb", "text": "I was looking on padmapper (hence mostly Craigslist). But it turns out you're right, Jillian. I read too quickly.  Should have realized that was too absurd to believe.  Sorry!", "timestamp": "1405783488"}, {"author": "Jillian", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/668446186362?comment_id=668672757312", "anchor": "fb-668672757312", "service": "fb", "text": "It's fine -- having done a Craigslist housing search a couple times, I've definitely been misled by those before...", "timestamp": "1405783544"}]}