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Here in the Chicago area there are some accomodations available in the $600 - $700 range. But I'd spend a lot of time hanging around those buildings before signing a lease to ensure I'd be a happy camper while living there. I think it would be hard to find a community where my middle class values would be commonly shared in that price range.
YMMV as far as cost of living. Chicago is on the more expensive end of things, particularly with regard to housing from what I gather.
Some cities/regions are high rent for whatever reason. Plenty of other perfectly nice cities, regions, or parts of cities are not high cost of living, for whatever reason. $700 rent gets you a crappy place to live with sketchy roommates in some cities. In other cities, it gets you a decent, yet basic apartment or townhome in a decent part of town (where the median income of your zip code is a little less than the median income of the city overall).