I live in outside of dallas and pay 650 dollars per month so what would that translate to? i know that there is no exact umber and it depends on where you live but is there an average price?

If you look in the suburbs surrounding NYC, or in other burroughs beside Manhattan, you can get a nice 1 bedroom apartment for $1,000-$1,200. In Manhattan, you will wind up paying $1,500-$2,000 for a crappy studio (maybe 1 br) the size of a shoebox somewhere in a basement. Unless you live in Harlem or Hell's Kitchen, which aren't the best neighborhoods. However, even they're not that cheap. My friend pays $1,500 for a ROOM in a 5-bedroom apartment with 4 other people in Hell's Kitchen.