not answering the question, but many parts of north brooklyn, NYC are other such areas. I'm looking at the exact same math problem. Paying 7k a month for a place that you couldn't possibly rent for more than 5k.
I have a couple basics I know by heart in awk, sed, and grep and those things enable me to be quick doing all sorts of stuff I need to do for large datasets on a daily basis. cat user_uuid_list | sed s/$/,/ sort of stuff. or anything tabular looking where I want specific columns (awk). maybe there are better ways, but I don't really care, as this works for me, is available everywhere, and I will never forget how to do it. I also use python for lots of stuff!
same. I remember the bottles of wine, scuba diver and claudia schiffer swimming in cottage cheese or something like that. Socks on the living room couch?