Survey Says: Rent is So Expensive, Lots of People are Paying to Sleep in Living Rooms

(Image credit: Julia Brenner) If you're reading this from New York City or Boston or San Francisco (or really anywhere!), I don't have to tell you: the rent is too damn high. (It's an old meme, but it checks out because it's still too damn true.) Wages aren't keeping up with the cost of living, and housing in metro areas is getting prohibitively expensive.