Boston rent too high? Twitter users offer up a few snowy alternatives.

Rents in Boston may be sky-high, but at least residents are down-to-earth with their sense of humor about it.

After the weekend’s bomb cyclone blizzard dumped nearly two feet of snow on the city, residents offered up abodes made from the newly abundant white material lying around.

One resident offered up a “Bay Village studio” for $2,700 a month — heat and hot water not included.

Another put a north Brookline “studio” up for $2,500 a month.

As one person jokingly responded, “Modern white interior with open concept; pets okay; won’t last.”

According to the real estate website Zumper, rents in Boston are at an all-time high.

The median monthly rent for a one-bedroom in the city is $2,720, just $130 less than the median price for a place in the No. 2 most expensive city in the nation, San Francisco.

New York is still the most expensive, with the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment at $3,260 a month.

According to The Boston Globe, the local rental market rebounded quickly from its pandemic lows, in contrast to West Coast markets.

Between January 2021 and 2022, the median rent for a one-bedroom in Boston rose by 20.5 percent, while rents in San Francisco grew by 6.3 percent in that same period, and remain below the rents seen in that city before COVID.

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