Here’s a secret that North St. Louis County residents have been keeping to themselves: affordable living still exists, and it’s hiding in plain sight.
Welcome to Florissant, Missouri, where your rent won’t require you to donate plasma twice a week or start a side hustle selling handmade candles on Etsy.
This city of roughly 50,000 people has managed to maintain something that feels almost mythical in today’s housing market: average monthly rents that stay comfortably under $900.
Before you start thinking this must be some rundown area with tumbleweeds rolling through abandoned streets, let me stop you right there…