When it comes to renting here in town or even the surrounding areas the price is nuts and nearly unaffordable in most cases.

I have been personally shopping around, and the average cost is painful to even look at. When you take into factor what the average person makes annually, they just don't line up. We don't make enough to be able to rent, and we don't make enough to get an approved to buy a house. So now what? STRUGGLE. We just struggle and somehow make it happen.

How bad is the price of rent in Billings? $1,228 per month! Eeeeek!

The U.S. Cities with the Most (and Least) Affordable Rent:

The website WalletHub set out to make a list of the American cities with the most affordable rent. Surprisingly, it wasn't just "Cowtown, Nebraska, and that's it . . . that's the list." To do this they analyzed the median annual gross rent in more than 180 cities nationwide and then compared it to the median household income across the nation.

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The 10 cities where rent is the most affordable are:

Bismarck, North Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Fargo, North Dakota, Charleston, West Virginia, Casper, Wyoming, Overland Park, Kansas . . . Juneau, Alaska . . . and Anchorage, Alaska.  The first "major" city on the list is Seattle at #26.

Who is the cheapest?

On the flipside, the five cities where rent is the LEAST affordable are:  Miami . . . Newark, New Jersey . . . New Haven, Connecticut . . . Detroit . . . and Glendale, California.

So, either we move to these affordable towns, or we just start collecting jobs like Pokémon cards to make ends meet. Adulting at its finest!