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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rent on my 1 BR apartment (in Dallas) was $550/month.[/quote]

Rent on my place in Rosslyn was $500. And wasn’t a stretch even though first job was paying $20,000 plus OT. Everything was cheaper. Cable w/internet $50. Groceries $50. Two for 1 happy hours, or even all you can drink for $5 HH. First new car $11k. Last minute weekend flights to Europe $200. Hotels when you got there $40-60 a night.

Cute well made clothes, no fast fashion, and personal grooming were my biggest expenses.

And no credit card debt. Paid in full every month. [/quote]

Adjusted for inflation, that’s $1,000 a month. You can still get a nice 1 BR apartment in North Dallas for that.

And in 1994, Rosslyn was a dump.  There was nothing other than offices there and it completely shut down at 5:00 pm. Bread and Circus (ultimately came to be Whole Foods) was built in 1995 & for a long time, it was the only thing there. When it opened you could park in the empty lot across the street where The Crossing shopping/condo complex is now. The single family houses in the area were mostly small and unrenovated. When people compare prices for areas like Rosslyn back in those days, they completely lose sight of the fact that they are comparing apples to oranges. [/quote]

It wasn’t fancy. But that wasn’t the point I was young and free, in my first place just across the bridge from DC. I had friends who lived in group houses in DuPont, they were also dumps. But we didn’t care back then because we were young, beautiful and carefree and it was all in front of us. Oh the stories and the good times. So glad this was before cell phone videos.

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