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From CityLab:

...New York City and San Francisco are far and away the most expensive places to rent in America. Even people with six-figure incomes cannot afford the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in these cities’ most expensive neighborhoods. No wonder housing affordability has become a leading, if not the leading, political issue in San Francisco and New York. What remains to be seen is whether such incredibly high rents will begin to stifle and suffocate the very diversity and creative energy that have long powered these neighborhoods and cities.

25 U.S. Neighborhoods with the Highest Monthly Median Rent

Rank	Region Name	Metro	Rent/Month
1	Bel Air	Los Angeles	$10,629
2	Pacific Palisades	Los Angeles	$7,987
3	Beverly Glen	Los Angeles	$7,667
4	Brentwood	Los Angeles	$7,403
5	Poet's Quarter	Los Angeles	$7,075
6	Jordan Park-Laurel Heights	San Francisco	$7,000
7	La Gorce	Miami-Fort Lauderdale	$6,932
8	Lake	San Francisco	$6,521
9	Cow Hollow	San Francisco	$6,471
10	Pacific Heights	San Francisco	$6,380
11	Riverside	Stamford	$6,380
12	Financial District	San Francisco	$6,373
13	Marina	San Francisco	$6,362
14	Parnassus-Ashbury	San Francisco	$6,196
15	Forest Hill	San Francisco	$5,891
16	Berkley/Foxhall Crescents	Washington	$5,868
17	Kings Point	New York	$5,763
18	Spring Valley	Washington	$5,740
19	Eureka Valley-Dolores Heights-Castro	San Francisco	$5,665
20	Chelsea	New York	$5,649
21	Noe Valley	San Francisco	$5,560
22	Hollywood Hills	Los Angeles	$5,557
23	Baywood Knolls	San Francisco	$5,531
24	Cheviot Hills	Los Angeles	$5,511
25	Russian Hill	San Francisco	$5,486