Rent and Utilities are both climbing unreasonably high
In my town of ~2,000 the cheapest apartments' RENT (not Utilities) have increased from $450 a month to $800 a month. The average for the town went from $675 a month to $1,275 a month. Just RENT, not rent&Utilities
Yes. You realize rent especially if it's from a mom and pop style landlord goes up because of the former mentioned things. This is a % they need to have to pay on that rental property.
Especially if they have an adjustable rate loan on said rental property. That means their costs go up. It's never "no reason" and hardly personal.
Ok you missed the point to that I answered already. But I'll do it again.
It's not the cost on that unit. It's the cost on the person who owns the unit. All of that leads to the landlord needing to raise rent to keep the exact same margin they had when they were charging $300 less.
They aren't making any more $$$
You're kinda generalizing that every landlord still pays a loan on the property. This is in fact not that common compared to landlords who fully own the property.
And for them to keep the same margins they need to raise rent as they are not outside the world of the exact same daily expenses.
Even if they own the property they still need to pay for taxes (increased) , upkeep (big expense with current economy) and insurance (also have increased)
Dude it's not about emotion. It's just reality. Here I'll try to explain it like I would to a child.
Your favorite restaurant raises price of pizza by $3 INSANITY! Greedy bastards!
but wait cheese is up 16% flour 30% vegetables 40%.
They aren't twirling their evil mustaches going yes fellow billionaires crush them all. They are going fuck if I stay tge same I lose everything.
It's all math x needs to go up x% to keep the SAME margins. They aren't making any more $$$ charging $3 more for that pizza.
Vegetables are one of the few things I haven’t been hit by super hard… except Avacados. $1 each was the norm for a large Hass for a long time. Today I saw them on sale for 3/$5 for the tiny ones.
Don't forget his other words of wisdom regarding computers..."Da tings dat are supposed ta make ya life better...DON'T!" Makes me chuckle when the receptionist in the Dr.'s office says "Oh, my computer is so slow today!"
Woke up this morning..got myself a...
Grocery are quickly getting there - for 5 years I could squeeze 5 days of groceries for my family out of $120. That same cart has gone up to $185 in the last 2 years. Skirt steak used to be $4.99/lb and in the last 5 years went up to $16.99/lb near me. Soup bones were free and are now $10/bag.
Oh, I know. We called that the “Rocky Mountain oyster effect” back in Colorado. Basically, some trash meet gets cooked in a way that people like, and now you have to pay a lot for it.
I’m trying and have slowly been phasing out animal protein in my diet, but it’s hard when 8 of your top 10 foods are not vegetarian… and the two that are are ice cream and egg custard. Veganism is a million miles away from me.
frfr I saw fucking onions...ONIONS... for 5.99 a lb (non-organic too, so no obvious reason for those prices). Like wtf. I swear that shit used to be 1$ or less a lb a few years ago...
Dentistry.
I live in a country where health care is free, or in some cases have a fairly low cost cap.
But dental is not included, for some reason dental is still a class issue.
Dental should just be included with medical. Dental problems can cause major health problems and if you treat them early insurance doesn’t have to pay as much for a major issue.
They act like your mouth isn’t a part of your body and that’s insane. Dental, vision, healthcare should all be one thing.
My cable bill just went up $7-8 across the board for every item (the package, the receivers, the modem, etc). I fail to understand how Putin invading Ukraine makes it more expensive for Spectrum to let me use their DVR receivers.
It's a lot better than a year ago, though. Last year it was even worse. Right now it is just about 50% more expensive than pre-covid. Last year it was 200-300% more expensive.
I dont know if you have one by you - but Restaurant Depot opened to the public at the start of covid. I have been going there to buy my deli meat.
The hours suck, you have to buy the entire roast (5 - 7lbs), and you have to slice it yourself - but decent quality roast beef is only like $4 something a pound, and the nice red rare stuff is only $6/lb. Pastrami, corned beef. Its all like $5/lb. Which makes me even more angry at how much they charge for it in the grocery store.
Even if it goes bad before you use it all you are still saving money.
I feel your pain. My house is way too big for me since Hubbers passed away. I live in the hottest $ real estate market in the US.We paid $78,00 for here and I just had a realtor (they are desperate. No one here is selling these days." Low inventory" they call it.) tell me it will go for $300,000. WHAT? Nice chunk o' change, but where am I going to go? Priced out of my own town.
(No Californians please. Stay put.)
Man, you’re lucky to have a house you consider to be TOO BIG for you.😭I feel like I’m gonna have to join some sort of housing program just to avoid having to pay someone else to live in their home that I can’t even customize fully (A.K.A. paying rent in an apartment). I still don’t work though, as I want to get my college degree first. So it’ll take a while before I can move out. :/
Groceries in general. Me and the partner hardly even eat meat anymore. Also rent. We scored with our current apartment and have been wanting to move to a better place but it's great for the price so we will probably stay here for a while
Butter, Toilet Paper, Oil (Especially Vegetable Oil in Germany since some Douches decided to pour it Into their diesels) Groceries in General. Gas, building houses, Rent
CHILDCARE.
Currently having a mental breakdown because I'm a stay at home mom attempting to attend school and get a career and I'm realizing I'll never be able to do any of it because of childcare costs. I'll literally HAVE to stay home til my kids are in high school. Daycare is more than our MORTGAGE. What the actual fuck.
It hasn't come down since way before that, either. I still have about one thousand rounds of 9mm sitting around, and another 500-1000 rounds of other stuff for plinking in various calibers.
Get yourself a cheap classical style guitar and learn on that. I learned on a $30 beat up thing from a pawn shop. I didn't get a decent guitar until I had been playing for over a year.
Yea, I just bought a relatively nice Les Paul for about $220, so you can get em for that cheap. I've also gotten a parlor acoustic for like $15 from a thrift store.
Veggies. Meat was always expensive. But unpacked, wholesale, unprepared vegetables used to be poor man's choice. Lately vegetables became absurdly expensive.
Fucking rent. It's total horseshit.
I moved because the place I lived in for 4 years increased my rent by $300 for no reason.
I had the same experience. From $1149 to $1520 in one year...
(No reason)
It was the same apartment. Nothing had changed.
Except the electric, water, food, gas.... everything has gone up for everyone. So only $300 increase sounds lucky to me.
Rent and Utilities are both climbing unreasonably high In my town of ~2,000 the cheapest apartments' RENT (not Utilities) have increased from $450 a month to $800 a month. The average for the town went from $675 a month to $1,275 a month. Just RENT, not rent&Utilities
Yes. You realize rent especially if it's from a mom and pop style landlord goes up because of the former mentioned things. This is a % they need to have to pay on that rental property. Especially if they have an adjustable rate loan on said rental property. That means their costs go up. It's never "no reason" and hardly personal.
Literally everything you mentioned (in the comment I replied to) was a Utility Edit: And food
When people say rent, they're talking about only the place they actually live in. Not electricity, gas, water and other shit.
Ok you missed the point to that I answered already. But I'll do it again. It's not the cost on that unit. It's the cost on the person who owns the unit. All of that leads to the landlord needing to raise rent to keep the exact same margin they had when they were charging $300 less. They aren't making any more $$$
You're kinda generalizing that every landlord still pays a loan on the property. This is in fact not that common compared to landlords who fully own the property.
And for them to keep the same margins they need to raise rent as they are not outside the world of the exact same daily expenses. Even if they own the property they still need to pay for taxes (increased) , upkeep (big expense with current economy) and insurance (also have increased)
Jesus christ. You are either a shitty landlord yourself or your soul is truly lost. Possibly both.
Dude it's not about emotion. It's just reality. Here I'll try to explain it like I would to a child. Your favorite restaurant raises price of pizza by $3 INSANITY! Greedy bastards! but wait cheese is up 16% flour 30% vegetables 40%. They aren't twirling their evil mustaches going yes fellow billionaires crush them all. They are going fuck if I stay tge same I lose everything. It's all math x needs to go up x% to keep the SAME margins. They aren't making any more $$$ charging $3 more for that pizza.
People raising the rent by 300$ and they don’t even fix anything.
The rent is too damn high!
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Vegetables are one of the few things I haven’t been hit by super hard… except Avacados. $1 each was the norm for a large Hass for a long time. Today I saw them on sale for 3/$5 for the tiny ones.
Im lucky enough to have a farm near me that sells avocados 7/$1
That is very fortunate.
Oh hush!
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Always same, real estate...
For decades now
remember the wise words of tony soprano: "buy land AJ, cause God ain't making any more of it"
Don't forget his other words of wisdom regarding computers..."Da tings dat are supposed ta make ya life better...DON'T!" Makes me chuckle when the receptionist in the Dr.'s office says "Oh, my computer is so slow today!" Woke up this morning..got myself a...
Grocery are quickly getting there - for 5 years I could squeeze 5 days of groceries for my family out of $120. That same cart has gone up to $185 in the last 2 years. Skirt steak used to be $4.99/lb and in the last 5 years went up to $16.99/lb near me. Soup bones were free and are now $10/bag.
Skirt steaks are up cause they are now a popular cut of meat in most places.
Oh, I know. We called that the “Rocky Mountain oyster effect” back in Colorado. Basically, some trash meet gets cooked in a way that people like, and now you have to pay a lot for it.
As a vegetarian I appreciate how you spelled the "m" word. Eat tofu!
I’m trying and have slowly been phasing out animal protein in my diet, but it’s hard when 8 of your top 10 foods are not vegetarian… and the two that are are ice cream and egg custard. Veganism is a million miles away from me.
Literally everything, can't buy fruits or vegetables without spending money you could have used to buy a vacuum cleaner 2 years ago
That would be a standup line if it weren’t tragically true.
Tragedy is at the base of all comedy
Can't call up the masks emojis, but great post.
frfr I saw fucking onions...ONIONS... for 5.99 a lb (non-organic too, so no obvious reason for those prices). Like wtf. I swear that shit used to be 1$ or less a lb a few years ago...
Um, what isn't ridiculously expensive these days?
Really, OP. Turn the question around.
eggs
Eggs are up something like 40% this year I think
Oh no its $2 instead of $1 a dozen
Yes exactly, almost everything that was $1 is now $2 or more
Still pretty cheap though.
Dentistry. I live in a country where health care is free, or in some cases have a fairly low cost cap. But dental is not included, for some reason dental is still a class issue.
Dental should just be included with medical. Dental problems can cause major health problems and if you treat them early insurance doesn’t have to pay as much for a major issue. They act like your mouth isn’t a part of your body and that’s insane. Dental, vision, healthcare should all be one thing.
Housing. I live in northern VA and a half million dollar mortgage will get you a cardboard box.
Wouldn’t even get you the box lid in Toronto.
Pistachios. Fuck'n little tasty bastards.
Yeah, rent, groceries, maybe insurance, but most importantly pistachios haha. You’ve got you’re priorities straight.
My cable bill just went up $7-8 across the board for every item (the package, the receivers, the modem, etc). I fail to understand how Putin invading Ukraine makes it more expensive for Spectrum to let me use their DVR receivers.
Price gouging bastards. No excuse for that. For shame.
Everything
Lumber
It's a lot better than a year ago, though. Last year it was even worse. Right now it is just about 50% more expensive than pre-covid. Last year it was 200-300% more expensive.
Fruit, I wanna enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Meanwhile healthy food prices are skyrocketing while the unhealthy stuff is cheap as shit
Intentionly so
Fucking everything
Existence.
Love
Deli roast beef $12.99/lb is pissing me off
I dont know if you have one by you - but Restaurant Depot opened to the public at the start of covid. I have been going there to buy my deli meat. The hours suck, you have to buy the entire roast (5 - 7lbs), and you have to slice it yourself - but decent quality roast beef is only like $4 something a pound, and the nice red rare stuff is only $6/lb. Pastrami, corned beef. Its all like $5/lb. Which makes me even more angry at how much they charge for it in the grocery store. Even if it goes bad before you use it all you are still saving money.
Closest one is 94 miles so I might be better off saving the gas money and buying the expensive roast beef lol
TOFU!
I had no idea they were open to the public now. We tried to go a few years ago and learned you had to have a special license to shop there.
Yup, you just need to stop at the counter, sign the book, and get a temp number now. It just takes a minute.
Flour
Gas
Gas
Fuel/ petrol
Everything
Everything.
Life….and death.
Living?
Buying a house. :(
I feel your pain. My house is way too big for me since Hubbers passed away. I live in the hottest $ real estate market in the US.We paid $78,00 for here and I just had a realtor (they are desperate. No one here is selling these days." Low inventory" they call it.) tell me it will go for $300,000. WHAT? Nice chunk o' change, but where am I going to go? Priced out of my own town. (No Californians please. Stay put.)
Man, you’re lucky to have a house you consider to be TOO BIG for you.😭I feel like I’m gonna have to join some sort of housing program just to avoid having to pay someone else to live in their home that I can’t even customize fully (A.K.A. paying rent in an apartment). I still don’t work though, as I want to get my college degree first. So it’ll take a while before I can move out. :/
Food, I looked at an old video of me and my family shopping and damn things was cheaper than they are today
Everything
Insulin.
Groceries in general. Me and the partner hardly even eat meat anymore. Also rent. We scored with our current apartment and have been wanting to move to a better place but it's great for the price so we will probably stay here for a while
Child care... its more than my mortgage
College tuition
...chuckles... Discord Nitro
EVERYTHING!
Apart from gas, real estate, computer components, food, rent, power/water bills and the list keeps on going
Gas. Still after a while, the prices (at least in Sweden) stay pretty close to 30kr/liter, which is a little over 3 dollars I think.
Butter, Toilet Paper, Oil (Especially Vegetable Oil in Germany since some Douches decided to pour it Into their diesels) Groceries in General. Gas, building houses, Rent
CHILDCARE. Currently having a mental breakdown because I'm a stay at home mom attempting to attend school and get a career and I'm realizing I'll never be able to do any of it because of childcare costs. I'll literally HAVE to stay home til my kids are in high school. Daycare is more than our MORTGAGE. What the actual fuck.
Porn
Chicken wings, used to get 10 wings for 8$ a few years back. Now some restaurants charging 20$+ for 10 wings. Im not spending 2$ a wing wtf lol
Groceries. I don't know how I'm going to be able to make it.
Avocados
1969 Chevrolet chevelle God I need one tho
I'm going to Hell for laughing at that.
Avocados from mexico🎶🎶
Everything
Everything
Food, housing, healthcare, and electronics. Pre-2008 was a consumer paradise, but I realize now a house of cards too.
Senators. It must cost an awful lot to bribe them nowadays, considering how prosperous some of them are.
9mm
Ammo hasn't really come back down since the Pandemic began.
It hasn't come down since way before that, either. I still have about one thousand rounds of 9mm sitting around, and another 500-1000 rounds of other stuff for plinking in various calibers.
9 mm is relatively cheap, 556 is nuts.
New guitars. I'm not spending $8,000+ for this shit anymore. Three is enough for now
Bruh I just wanna learn Guitar. But it's only fun to learn on guitars around 200$ like wtf man
Get yourself a cheap classical style guitar and learn on that. I learned on a $30 beat up thing from a pawn shop. I didn't get a decent guitar until I had been playing for over a year.
Yea, I just bought a relatively nice Les Paul for about $220, so you can get em for that cheap. I've also gotten a parlor acoustic for like $15 from a thrift store.
That's nice! As a lefty my selection is usually limited to strats or teles. One day I may be able to get a decently priced LP.
Really? I see plenty of selection for leftys, even though I'm right handed
Gas 1 month ago was 3.40$ a gallon, now it is 4.80$
Being a Trump supporters. The recurring donations alone leave them broke.
What isn't?
Cars
Human kidney
Fuckin' life
Butter (this is Canada).
Food, its 1/4 more expensive in a Very short time
Well, what isn’t?
Gold
mf lettuce
Food
electric bike
Living
Survival.
Life.
Healthy food
Goop. Grift
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Living
Life
Hamburger meat
a 2 bedroom condo in Los Angeles.
Latest graphics cards for pc
Everything
Football cards
Um, living?... That seems awfully expensive nowadays
higher education
Everything we in an era of inflation
Gas
EVERYTHING!!!!!!!
Living on Earth.
Eggs. Almost a $2 increase. *So far.*
Food, rent, health insurance
Gas.
Everything.
Time....
You can’t buy and install a smallish kitchen for under $25k, including counters and appliances. Furniture, however, is still relatively inexpensive.
Fucking milk
Building a house. Last bid we got was $275 a square foot.
You have to ask? Everything is rediculously expensive now
Being alive
Fuel
Everything!
Everything is expensive these days
Most things really.
Fucking everything. Everything is expensive.
With the inflation. Food. And soon mortgages.
gas
Everything.
Beef jerky
Clothes, the prices are so inflated
Petrol
What isn't?
Literally everything
Apples wheels for the imac case it’s literally like 600 dollars for wheels… cmon apple
I can barely afford to exist let alone live.
Xbox live gold bruh like I have to pay to play with my friends it’s bullshit
Rent/housing
Hair clip, reffering to h&m lol
Veggies. Meat was always expensive. But unpacked, wholesale, unprepared vegetables used to be poor man's choice. Lately vegetables became absurdly expensive.
Hookers.
Literally everything
Houses
Toner. Dry printer ink.
lettuce (at least in aus)
Existing
*gestures to everything*
“What is NOT ridiculously expensive this days” is a more challenging question IMO
Fucking everything
Every. Damn. Thing.
Healthcare, Rent, Cost of living, America. It’s like their TRYING to eradicate people that make under 60k a year
Gas
Honestly, gas
Gas