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My rent doubled in less than a decade (slrpnk.net)
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[–] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Where I live rent is usually described in fortnightly periods, despite being paid weekly. I'm pretty sure most of the rest of the west uses monthly, so I don't think it's particularly confusing to describe rent that way (at the very least, I wasn't confused?).