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Thats bonkers. $2200 around here could get you a 4 bedroom house, 2 car garage on 15 acres 30 minutes from Pittsburgh.

Apartments in good neighborhoods in Manhattan are much much more than that for one bedroom. Maybe it depends, but it anchors around $3000-$3500. (Source: I lived there :))

thats absolutely out of control, thats why so many new yorkers i know have moved to different parts of europe, less crime, less rent and more beauty haha

It's also expensive outside of Manhattan. It's really nuts; you have to chase money to live there. Same thing in SF. I don't know how it is now, but where I grew up in Brooklyn, you could potentially get a lot more for less. You have to specifically avoid like Williamsburg or Park Slope.