The baseline is a one bedroom apartment in a major city, which not how most people live, and it doesn’t cover the disparity between low income and high income areas. Most people in cities live in units larger than one bedroom and live outside of the city limits. Chicago and the above median suburbs are plenty expensive with taxes, gas, real estate taxes, insurance, food, etc. It’s certainly got to be in the top 10.
The baseline is a one bedroom apartment in a major city, which not how most people live, and it doesn’t cover the disparity between low income and high income areas. Most people in cities live in units larger than one bedroom and live outside of the city limits. Chicago and the above median suburbs are plenty expensive with taxes, gas, real estate taxes, insurance, food, etc. It’s certainly got to be in the top 10.