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All of my friends who live in 2 bedroom apartments in decent neighborhoods in chicago are paying $2300-2500, without parking included. Chicago median rent is artificially depressed because there are a lot of very bad neighborhoods you would never live in, while those in SF are quite rare (Tenderloin, SoMa)

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You can get a 2bdr in Logan Square for under $2000. Same with Uky Village. Edgewater? Well under $1500. You can pay over $2000 if you go looking in Lakeview; just like every big city has rough areas, every big city has nosebleed areas, too. You're just much more likely to be able to afford living in the nosebleed parts of Chicago.

I couldn't even find prices for the south side (I checked Auburn and Grand Crossing) or west side (I checked North Lawndale and Austin). Nobody's suggesting you can get a nice 2bdr in Chicago for $450/mo, which I assume you could in Belmont Cragin.

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