<i>&quot;Before that I used airbnb.com to find a place and there are a good number that are under $1000 a month outside downtown SF. She could&#x27;ve done something similar.&quot;</i><p>OK...I just did. I found nothing less than $1500 a month, even expanding my search radius to include Marin, the entire east bay, and all of South San Francisco. The average nightly is $179.<p>Of all the things in her post that you could choose be self-righteous about, her rent is the one that makes the least sense. Her budget was realistic. She wasn&#x27;t living in luxury.<p>People blow my mind. Stand up for something better than poverty, and you get attacked not just from the top, but from the bottom as well.