How do you move to a new city without spending thousands of dollars...

You should be able to find long term rentals on AirBnB that are more or less comparable in cost to the monthly rent in your city. A bonus is that they will be furnished.

i did this recently. motel 6 was $56 a night in the city I moved to. Spent 2 nights there, and 2 with a friend. covered me for 4 days while I looked. Just chock your days full of visits.

i know in new york the thing to do is get a real estate guy to go around and literally stand in a viable apartment, call you and tell you about it so you can make a decision on it in the next five minutes and he can put down the deposit

everything in nyc is like 1100 for an apartment with roommates in the ghetto and its broken down

it only took 4 days? in the xities i looked at its like 80 bucks

nice digits
but you can sleep in your car for free my man it's not like apartments have a "no smelly applicants" rule

every person with an affordable room gets a shit load of emails in a few days and has like a hundred applicants

You can do longer term rents on airbnb, which is basically a private person renting out their room at hotel rates. You can probably get one cheaper if you're staying a month or so at a time. Alternatively you can sometimes find people renting out a room not on a lease until you can find your own place, which is what I'm doing right now.

yeah i know and those are checked up for months :( i wanted to just find a room within a few weeks or somethin like just some college aged kids looking to fill a room quick or something

If you're looking to get your own place soonish that probably won't work. Landlords typically require everyone that is living there to be on a lease. Due to that you will need probably a month's or two worth of rent and a security deposit. In my experience it is best if the place you are looking at rooming with is currently being occupied by the owner itself.

i found a shit load on craigslist where they're just renting month to month and they move in like a month away and shit i just have to be there already to do it

It depends on how quick you can get up there. If there are a bunch of those you could try hopping from one place to another as they move out. It's risky but a bit cheaper. If they already have roommates or if the place is affordable you'll also be one of the first to be able to talk about signing a lease yourself, but that requires verifiable income though.

I stayed a week in the extended stay hotel, it was like $50/night, that was enough to get credit check and shit for midtown studio, $750/mo..Its really not hard, more annoying. All these stupid hoops to jump. I've never seen an apartment or house for rent that just costs money. They need 5 letters of recommendation, credit, notarized measurement of butthole diameter, and last 5 years tax returns.

I know. Even in my rural area there are places that pay between $8-10 an hour, and people actually work there and are single. Some of them even have kids, so child support and all the bullshit that goes with that.

I cannot even imagine living off that much. How the fuck? 8/hr is 640 a paycheck, then after taxes it's probably like 550, even less than that if they have to pay in to get whatever shitty benefits that employer may or may not offer. So your take home is something like 1100/month maximum, and then rent in a shitty trailer park is 250, in addition to cell, internet, electric, trash water etc etc the whole package has to be at least half that monthly income. Then you gotta feed yourself somehow and, I imagine, if your car or anything breaks down or you get sick you're pretty much fucked right up the ass.

I know people with kids that have primary placement (>women) get a nice sized fuckload of welfare thanks to the hundreds of dollars each paycheck I basically hand to them on a silver fucking platter, but I'll never understand how a single person can do it.

I'll never understand it.

i just want a room with roommates and shit. where did you find that shit? i dont see anything that cheap in any city i look at

Depends on where you live, but, in the USA, you typically do need a couple thousand, changing work places notwithstanding.

>greyhound is like 500 USD to cross the country
>moving in to new apartment is first and last months rent plus deposite
>even if 350 USD studio, it's likely first rent times three, a thousand, plus what utilities will be and such
A grand and a half, best case scenario, I'd say, or else you're not moving far.

Oh, and to get approved to such a nice priced apartment, not easy.

What state do you live in, user? If you have a halfway decent work ethic and aren't a complete fucking waste of time I might be able to help you.

Otherwise, there are hotels that'll rent out their rooms long term for something like $200/week. They'll probably make you sign a lease or something and they typically don't advertise so you won't see it online. You'd have to walk in or at least call around and see what you can get.

how do i find those places? id pay like 200-250 a week i found a few on some sites and shit but a lot of them had reports of bed bugs and shit but a lot of them ive seen are like 400 a week or 100 a night or some shit

Move brother moved to NYC with his friend. Drove from Chicago to NY with nothing but a garbage bag full of clothes. They went around found jobs saved up money opened a very successful restaurant. Sounds like bullshit you can believe or don't. It is literally the american dream and it still happens if you work hard enough.

yeah but i dont even have a car :(

Save up and take the cheapest flight/train. You'll be alright man. If some random Asians with literally nothing, I sound like I'm exaggerating but I'm not, go to new York out of all places and start a restaurant and make profit then you can do this. It was either the army or something else whatever it may be for my brother. He just wanted to do something. He even passed the test with an almost perfect score but the army life wasn't for him. Him and his friend were like fuck it why not and just went for it.

they just slept in their car? wtf that sounds kinda cool tho i wish i had a friend with at least a small income or something would come with me especially since hotels usually come with 2 beds and shit

As I said - call around, ask what kind of deal can be made. But as others have said any relocation is going to be a couple grand if not more depending on what you're willing to put up with.

If you're looking to relocate ultra cheap on a shoestring budget then the only options I can think of are:

1). You're going to have to put up with living under shitty conditions for 1-2 months

2). Look up craigslist, couchsurfing etc and see what you can swing there. I have a couchsurfing account and have had a few people stay over. It's mostly been a positive experience - BUT I've honestly come to expect people leaving a few 20s on my counter when they leave since it seems like everyone does it.

Dude when I visited LA I slept in a motel that's few miles from the airport, they give a free bus ride to the motel, and you can rent cars/vans from there, and it's 25$ a night.
Stop being a snob. Sleep in a car if you have to.

Spoiler: OP will never change and continue arguing with people in his shitty reports until the end of time.

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And he could use whatever's left of that 200k after neetdom and travel to go back to school and get a job that doesn't suck ass

i dont believe that though. 25 bucks a night how? i looked on google and i didn't see anything under 60 and that was 1 star

thats what i keep doing is looking on craigslist and calling people on there looking for roommates but they just fill the room before i can do anything. i dont even know where to start or anything once im in the city

i dont wanna think too much about it but i dont wanna fuck it up and blow my entire savings or just end up trapped somewhere i hate

Not him, but
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Sounds like you're going to have to grow a pair and risk "fucking it up" unless the status quo is preferable to that, then

Persistence is key with these things. Pretty much anyone can find a roommate that will pay on time, so you're in a buyer's market at the moment.

I'd question what you mean by "do anything" - call them up, they want to know if you're interested, so you swing by with cash in your pocket. If it looks good then you pay up and go for it; if it doesn't then you gtfo and what you tell them is up to you. But I'd strongly recommend not being too picky. I worked my way up from garbage so I don't have much time/sympathy for people that want to sit on a decision for a long time. Most people don't, so if you're actually serious and not looking for someone to take pity on you and tell you to take your time with a decision, you're gonna have to demonstrate some giddy-up-and-go capability here.

that nigga said it was a motel room tho not that dorm living space shit

ive been emailing and following up with texts and calls and agreeing to everything and told them i have a savings and could book a flight probably a few days from now. might try hitting up more people tomorrow and just keep trying

Right. Look, I've done a few major relocations myself so I get it. I spent however many years growing up in Bumfuck then lived in a major metro area for 5 years, then semi-Bumfuck, and am looking at moving again.

If you're looking at flying to a brand new location, that far away then....Jeez, you're gonna have to have some serious cash in your bank account. No offense man, but you can't just do that major a life change without something backing you up. And in most cases "something" means money.

I'd recommend setting up a 5 year goal plan, where you live in a different location, each closer to where you want to end up, each year. Most apartment rentals make you sign a year long lease which is fine as long as you give notice, and have something different/better lined up closer and closer to where you want to end up.

But...holy shit dude. You're talking about flights, meaning you're looking at moving 1k+ miles away, without having "thousands of dollars" in your bank account. As far as I can see, from my life experiences and having researched this shit based on my own dreams, I just don't see it happening. If you REALLY want to end up in a particular city (I'm guessing pacific coast - you strike me as a Portland, OR kind of dreamer) then you're going to have to put up with some shit.

And that's the reality at the end of the day - your options are to either settle with what's within 150ish miles of your current location, or put up with a LOT of shit to get where you're dreaming of being. And where you're dreaming of being is NOT paradise. Trust me.

Fucking millennial. Asshats, all of them

i have money in my bank tho i just want a place where i can land and pay cash to stay by the week or the month and i can afford a simple room with roommates there and should be able to afford a cheap weekly motel or something

everything ive looked at though is like 300/week and all the good roommate situations are taken up fast. i might try one of the motels that are 300 a week and hope i dont get fucked or something its just crazy how it costs that much and i wouldn't mind paying 250 or something just to be able to land and go there. im not picky at all i don't care if i live some place small and beat up i just dont want bed bugs