[URBAN NOTE] "French Castles Cheaper to Rent Than San Francisco Apartments"

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NBC Bay Area's Tamara Palmer looks at real estate prices in San Francisco in a rather enlightening international perspective. San Francisco is no longer going to be a place where non-rich people live, right?

Ready to trade that San Francisco studio apartment for a French castle?

Zumper located a seven bedroom castle on 200 acres of land in Ringuette, Region Aquitaine, France renting for $2,925 per month and contrasted it against a current listing for a 401 square-foot studio apartment on Page Street in San Francisco's Lower Haight, which goes for $3,000 per month.

Another six bedroom castle in France is currently on the rental market for $4,940 per month and includes a pool, three acre garden and "several lawns." It's juxtaposed against a Laurel Heights three bedroom apartment on Collins Street that runs $4,995. No square footage is mentioned, and one of the bedrooms doesn't have a closet.