If you are thinking of moving and plan to live in an apartment, Marietta, Georgia or Tallahassee, Florida would be good places to consider. The average apartment in both cities is more than 1,000 square feet, and new apartments are even larger than that, according to a new report from RentCafe, a web site that focuses on apartment life.
Many people in high-tech cities such as San Jose and Seattle are working at home, but it is hard to fit a home office into a studio apartment. Photo by Charles & Hudson.
On the other hand, unless you are a claustrophiliac, West Coast cities are terrible places to search for an apartment. Seattle apartments average less than 700 square feet and apartments built in the last 10 years are even smaller. Worse, apartments now under construction in Seattle average just 430 square feet; only San Jose is building tinier apartments at an average of 423 square feet. Portland and Los Angeles also have smaller-than-average apartments and the ones being built in those cities tend to be tiny: 553 square feet in L.A. and 606 in Portland. Continue reading
