Nobody sits down one day and decides to rethink their entire living situation because of a city they’ve been ignoring, and yet that’s exactly what’s happening with Akron, Ohio, one reasonable rent price at a time.
One-bedroom apartments in Akron are available for around $650 a month, and that single fact has a way of making people stop whatever they’re doing and reconsider some choices.
It’s the kind of number that sounds like a mistake until you realize it isn’t.
Akron is a real city with real things going on, and it’s sitting there in northeastern Ohio being genuinely affordable while the rest of the country argues about whether $2,000 a month for a studio is “reasonable.”…