Sometimes I feel like a millionaire
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8/20/2008
I recently moved from Toronto, Canada, which in terms of cost of living is comparable to say... chicago or NY city. In Toronto, as a single girl in my mid 20's, I lived in a 500 sq foot basement apt and paid $820.00 in rent alone. Tack on internet, cable, phone, parking and I was easily paying $1200.00 per month with barely enough to save or pay off school loans.
This past year (2008) I married my american boyfriend of 3 years and moved to columbus, ohio. We live in a condo community that has 2 pools, 2 club houses, a gym, and we live 2 people - comfortably in a 1 bedroom 1000 sq foot apt and pay $820.00 per mo. For the last 3 years, my boyfriend lived in a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 2 storey town house for $800.00 per mo.
Our apt is considered upscale due to the ammenities, which is why I mention the apt my boyfriend was previously living in. You def get more bang for you buck in columbus.
Not only is the rent cheap, but the food is cheap as well. Beacause it's a university town, alot of restaurants cater to 1/2 price menus at certain times, happy hours galore. The grocery store it's self has crazy sales every week.
Since living in Columbus for almost a year now, I was able to knock away all my car and student loans that were painfully hard to pay off while in Toronto.
Aside from the Cost of Living being so cheap, the city is big but with a small town feel - everyone is exceptionally nice, holds doors for one another, makes small talk with you while you wait in line and genuinly seem to care about one another.
Maybe I am bias because I am coming from a dirty, congested, rude city orignally - but I gotta say, I LOVE Columbus.
Cbus | Columbus, OH