- The median monthly rent price for a one-bedroom apartment in New York in 2020 is $3,000, according to Zumper.
- This can be out of reach for the average millennial and Gen Zer. Based on the average millennial’s yearly income, millennials should only be spending around $998 a month on rent.
- Millennials and Gen Zers are still making their way to metropolises like NYC and San Francisco, and some of them are doing it thanks to a modern twist on an old trend, co-living spaces, where strangers share a home.
- Outpost Club is a co-living company with houses in New York, Jersey City, New Jersey, and San Francisco. Its residents, which Outpost calls “members,” share living spaces and, in some cases, even bedrooms. It’s one of the cheapest co-living options in New York.
- Around 50% of members are international, and members say the living arrangement helps them transition not only financially, but also mentally and socially, for life in NYC, but that it takes an extroverted person to get the most out of the co-living experience.
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When 30-year-old Sean Finn was moving from Prague to New York, he said he was prepared for his new accommodation to be a scam.
“I thought it couldn’t possibly be this easy,” he told Insider, “and then it was.”
Finn lives in an Outpost co-living space in upper Manhattan. Co-living spaces are essentially homes where strangers live together.
Outpost Club was started by three Ukrainians that struggled to move to NYC themselves because of issues like credit checks, scams, and agent commissions, so they made a business to accommodate people in similar situations.
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Modern co-living is just the latest version of a trend that’s more than 200 years old — cohabitation, or people living together.
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At Outpost, there’s an average of 16 people living in each house. While some of them are apartments, others are multi-story houses.
The spaces are decorated like homes, but they feel like dorms.
Filled-in chalkboards and dry-erase boards on the walls that seemed to assign responsibilities and advertise community events reminded me of life in college.
People live in shared spaces and, in some cases, even shared bedrooms.
Residents say they were surprised to find large living spaces in their homes. “All my friends overseas said I’d be living in a shoebox,” Finn told Insider.
There can be up to two beds in a bedroom, which typically range between 70 to 170 square feet in size.
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