Twenty reasons why rents in Seattle are so high, probably

1.  The landlords are the greediest in the country
   
   
2. The renters are the cheapest in the country
   
   
3. No new construction happening, increasing demand
   
   
4. People here make a lot of money, generally speaking
   
   
5. It's a secret conspiracy to keep people oppressed
   
   
6. The homelessness industrial complex
   
   
7. Those nice couches and coffee machines in the common areas ain't cheap, chief
   
   
8. Seattle apartments are made of golden bricks
   
   
9. Seattle apartments generate money automatically, with a 2x modifier if you pay more.
   
   
10. Nobody wants to live here because it's so crime-infested. Therefore...something something..so expensive.
    
    
11. When the proletariat rise against the bourgeoisie, they shall discover that it was all a plan to suppress the revolution etc.
    
    
12. Somebody fat-fingered an extra zero on their listing at apartments.com and everybody just followed.
    
    
13. Seattleites are so large they need more space than everybody else, which means more money
    
    
14. The buildings are way more expensive to construct since they need to take in a lot more weight (see above)
    
    
15. Every apartment has a secret bomb shelter and the costs add up.
    
    
16. The buildings can float during a flood caused by the massive pacific tsunami.
    
    
17. All the buildings can stand up to 10 richter scale earthquakes.
    
    
18. They're extra strong to hold the massive amounts of bullshits produced here
    
    
19. It's a wonderful place to live and everybody wants to live here and land usage rules suck.
    
    
20. The reptiles want to bankrupt you