Holy hell. I can't fathom paying $1,200 to $2,000 a month to rent a tiny apartment. That's insane. I think the $425 a month for the small house I live in is a lot. You people do realize that you could easily get a very nice house for less that what you're paying for those little apt's don't you? Just need to relocate to the country a bit. Then again you couldn't pay me to live in any city for that matter so my opinion is quite biased concerning that.
The sad thing is that I have so much stuff crammed in every room except the bathroom obviously , that it's beginning to look like the picture in the original post in each one of them.