r/Eugene • u/Demifiend101 • Dec 18 '22
I'm really starting to think moving here was a massive mistake. Moving
It was this, Huston Texas or north Carolina. I was just so sick and tired of living in a poverty state (WV) and wanted to make way more money.
Now I'm making 3600 a month, but the housing market is so competitive and high market I might as well be making 1200 back in the mountain state.
It's a complete god damn nightmare, currently staying in a motel that's costing me 2000$ a month just because I can't get in anywhere no matter how hard I try or applications I fill.
Applications which all have 50-80$ background checks. I've spent will over 1000$ in less than a month filling out those things.
Huston has a population of over 2.7 MILLION, and you can get a place there for just 600 a month still.
Where did it all go wrong here?
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u/NanaKaya426 Dec 19 '22
Not any more. Most of us living in decently priced places moved in at least a year ago. Rents have skyrocketed in the last year and a third of the places on Craigslist are scams. The foreign ones are easy enough to weed out but there’s plenty of local scammers too unfortunately. They sound real because they know the area, use real pictures of the house, etc. And since competition for the real rentals is so high you are very unlikely to even have your application looked at if you apply more than a few hours after it’s posted. Having good, reliable income and good credit don’t seem to matter even. In conclusion trying to find housing here right now is ridiculously hard. Unfortunately it’s not unique to Eugene, so research where ever you’d like to live ahead of time. Move on to the next state. I would if I could.