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San Franciscans, Let’s Go Redfin Shopping Around the Country!

A look at what you could get elsewhere for the price of a one-bedroom in SF

Leslie Ylinen
The Bold Italic
Published in
7 min readAug 5, 2020

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The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $3,629 a month. In buyer’s terms, that works out to a monthly mortgage payment on a house that costs about $770,000, assuming you have a 20% down payment, which you don’t.

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Writer in San Francisco. Work in McSweeney’s, The Bold Italic, Slackjaw, The Belladonna, and Points in Case.