I guess you can find shit in Bellingham under 2k/month but rent is exploding there. It got on some list of best cities to retire and now every boomer and property management company is trying to suck up all the real estate.
Dude you can visibly see it, too. They're building everywhere up here. I will say under 2k is extremely doable here, though. My partner and I live in a pretty spacious 2 bedroom for 1,600 just a couple minutes from downtown. We came from SD paying hundreds more than that for a much smaller, shittier place.
Like I said elsewhere in this thread, that's going to change quickly, but right now it's okay. I really dig it here, though.
Bellingham, Washington (Cheap, cool, near nature)
Albany, New York (Less of all of those things, but still all of those things)
Annapolis, Maryland (If you count the docks as nature)
I guess you can find shit in Bellingham under 2k/month but rent is exploding there. It got on some list of best cities to retire and now every boomer and property management company is trying to suck up all the real estate.
Dude you can visibly see it, too. They're building everywhere up here. I will say under 2k is extremely doable here, though. My partner and I live in a pretty spacious 2 bedroom for 1,600 just a couple minutes from downtown. We came from SD paying hundreds more than that for a much smaller, shittier place.
Like I said elsewhere in this thread, that's going to change quickly, but right now it's okay. I really dig it here, though.
Bellingham is like a weird mix of Astoria, Oregon and Seattle. More hippie than hip but overall not bad; I wouldn't call it cheap though
Hey fellow Hamster! 🤙
Hamster? Is that what people from Bellingham call each other?
Lol yeah, even the local baseball team has a hamster as their mascot.