Where is the cheapest rent on Earth?

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For an actual house or room, where is lowest national median rents on Earth? Like, Antartica doesn't count.

I say Chad.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to know this too. i think i need to get out of america.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Better yet, what place has the best standard of living wage to price of rent/mortgage ratio? Chad might be nice, but you're not going to make a whole lot to enjoy it.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Rural Malawi.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Afghanistan

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll bet Afghan rents are on the rise because of all the aid workers.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Define "best standard of living"

― InsertHomePageUpDeleteEndPageDown, Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Is food, shelter, and safe water givens here?

― InsertHomePageUpDeleteEndPageDown, Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

new zealand? it's certainly better value for money than australia

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

(The correct answer, by the way, is Hardy, Iowa.)

― InsertHomePageUpDeleteEndPageDown, Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Hardy, Iowa

― InsertHomePageUpDeleteEndPageDown, Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

mexico is cool. cheap, good food, good wrestling scene.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah but you have to import all your drinking water.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

HARDY, IA
http://www.pe.net/~rksnow/happened.gif

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd say somewhere in iowa, though. iowa is nice.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure there are lots of places where you just build a home wherever you feel like it. And there are probably still communities without any meaningful use of money. Pay your rent in pigs. Or go somewhere warm and sleep outside. Just remember to turn your boots upside down before putting them on.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.osce.org/photo_gal/web_311_948168_1062148121.jpg

I've heard the Aral Sea area is really fucking unpleasant. A dried up sea, storms of chemical dust blowing all day, polluted water and virtually no employment.

Probably get a studio for $4 a month or so. Plus first, last & deposit.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Detroit

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

my parent's house

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 September 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

my apartment andy! $900! north berkeley! take it please!

barring that, I would assume there are places to rent in the philipines that are like $20 a month.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 23 September 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Lethbridge, Edmonton, or Calgary, Alberta, apparently.

(Those commas look weird, but oh, well.)

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 23 September 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe this will contain the answer:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591132495/103-9868280-5962218?v=glance

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 23 September 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I gather that Somalia is the poorest country on earth. It's also run by warlords and basically has no central government. I'll bet you could pick up a cute one bedroom in Mogadishu for a buck three-eighty a month (cable extra).

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"a buck three-eighty a month"

but apparently their currency is hard to understand...

― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My Arkansas neighbor always spoke of "a buck three-eighty"... I'm not sure how much it is but I like it.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're of the piracy persuasion (not the nice kind) there are probably plenty of places where you could just kill a houses inhabitants and live in it. Any Law Enforcement probably don't care, and you being white(?) and rich will see you OK.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

On a serious note: Chernobyl, Russia is extremely cheap from what I understand. Seriously, like pennies a month in rent.

http://www.yptenc.org.uk/docs/dailygecko_news/newsimages/news_images3/chernobyl.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Pripyat's a quiet town with excellent facilities.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

And the views are spectacular.

http://www.energiatomica.hpg.ig.com.br/pripyat.jpg

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

'angabout, Chernobyl's not in Russia.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry Belarus, former Soviet territory.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

STRIKE TWO. Ukraine.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, i go home.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It happened back when everything was the USSR, and most of the fallout went into Belarus, so it's an easy misunderstanding.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Living in the poorest country != cheapest rent on Earth
(taking into account the rather minor detail that poverty is relative, once you actually live in said destination)

― BackSpace|\+=_-, Friday, 24 September 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(otherwise, these people wouldn't be poor in the first place.)

― BackSpace|\+=_-, Friday, 24 September 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but you take all yr precious 'real' money over and convert it for a king's ransom once there. Or before you leave, I don't know.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Baltic Avenue

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha

― Cripps Pink (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Boring pedantic shit:

To find actual cheap housing prices you have to find someplace where there is a housing surplus, not just some shitty joint nobody wants to live. Afghanistan doesn't count, same way Iraq doesn't, because what tends to happen after lots of buildings get blown up and there's a reconstruction effort is that prices go UP, especially when you bring in the global markets. And as the population increases, it becomes drastically harder to find places with too many rooms and not enough people, which is one of the reasons real estate is such a good investment.

So my guess would be that you have to find some place where it sucks AND the economy is drying up AND people are able to readily take off for greener pastures. My suggestion is to start with the former Soviet Union, but good look finding a legitimate job there.

I hate DC. We have a housing shortage like nobody's business and it's driving me nuts what the condo prices in this place are, much less the cost of a dilapidated rowhome.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 24 September 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

rent in portland, oregon was still cheap last i looked -- there are no "jobs" there per se, but a lot of the people who can't get real jobs start their own stores or whatever, and because the city planners are pretty adamant about keeping the number of big box stores and chains to a minimum, small businesses actually have a chance to make some money.

― Cripps Pink (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

My Arkansas neighbor always spoke of "a buck three-eighty"...

You sure he wasn't talking about the deer he shot?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

sunny Buffalo NY

― Queen Electric Cop Smacker SLAPPITY SLAP! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

iowa is nice.

Huh?

― Evil MN Boy (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to live in a yurt in Mongolia. Except you're not supposed to call them yurts, you're supposed to call them something else, but I've forgotten what already.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

smelly round house with grass on the top

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

no, no, it's something nicer than that, and nicer than yurt too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell Yes

― TOMBOT, Friday, 24 September 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

liberia real estate guide.

this directory is empty.

― jimmy crackhorn (don maynard), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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Living in the poorest country != cheapest rent on Earth
(taking into account the rather minor detail that poverty is relative, once you actually live in said destination)

-- BackSpace|\+=_- (...) (webmail), September 23rd, 2004 9:05 PM. (later) (link)

yeah, russia is not particularly rich, but st petersburg and (especially) moscow are enormously expensive places to live.

i would guess siberia, though, is pretty cheap. especially those "model" cities that have been losing population drastically for decades.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll bet a fair amount of real estate in Wendover, Utah is pretty cheap right now.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Live in Armenia - a place of culture, history, good people, and low cost of living

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

My parents' house.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

is albania expensive?

― Cripps Pink (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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