I've found NYC almost as bad. Just being able to afford the rent isn't enough. Here, yearly income 40x rent is standard, and sometimes even that's not enough.
Since I'm doing contract work and don't have a regular salary, one landlord told me outright that even though I had demonstrated I could pay, he wouldn't rent to me because he "wanted a more stable tenant".
It feels terribly insulting to be told that, and makes me long for a humbler city like Chicago or Minneapolis, where if you have money, a landlord will take it without nearly this level of nonsense.
Or Berlin. I looked at apartment prices there and began to feel quite jealous of the Germans :)
Since I'm doing contract work and don't have a regular salary, one landlord told me outright that even though I had demonstrated I could pay, he wouldn't rent to me because he "wanted a more stable tenant".
It feels terribly insulting to be told that, and makes me long for a humbler city like Chicago or Minneapolis, where if you have money, a landlord will take it without nearly this level of nonsense.
Or Berlin. I looked at apartment prices there and began to feel quite jealous of the Germans :)