Outside of the fact that we all love Friends, Sex and the City, How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory, these TV shows all share one other unifying factor: amazing apartments! And by the New York Post’s recent calculations, they are all crazy expensive. Take a deep breath, and let’s window shop together.
First off, most of these apartments are in New York City, which means the rent is going to be stupidly expensive. Monica and Rachel’s apartment from Friends, Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment from Sex and the City and basically every apartment from How I Met Your Mother (except Barney’s) are in pricey neighborhoods in Manhattan. Sheldon and Leonard’s apartment from The Big Bang Theory is in Pasadena, California, and at $2,000 per month, it’s still pretty costly.
The New York series’ apartments are all a lot more expensive than that, though. Monica’s two-bed, one-bath Friends apartment is $4,000+ monthly. Carrie’s one-bed, one-bath SATC apartment (featuring a huge, shoe-filled walk-in closet) is about $3,000 a month—and so is HIMYM’s Upper West Side apartment.
If you were going to rent one of these apartments, your best bet would be the two-bedroom, one-bathroom HIMYM apartment. Split across four people, that’s only $750 per month. Out of the four admittedly lavish apartments, this one will give you the most bang for your buck. And hey, you might even get to hear the nine-year story of how someone met their spouse (not that we’re still salty about that finale or anything…).
Since we definitely can’t afford any of these living quarters just yet, we’ll settle for binge-watching the crazy shenanigans that go down in and around them—until we come into the proper cash, of course.