What do you think $400.00 a month rent gets? That's what it costs to share a place or just rent a room in the last three states I've lived in at today's rental costs.
What a couple with minimal education and skill can afford...doesn't matter how nice it is.
And what great skill do you provide to society that makes your work worth a good wage to me ? Whatever it is, chances are good I can live without it/you and probably could forever. On the other hand, I do find a need to eat pretty much every day, yet the folks who are responsible for putting food on the grocery store shelves likely make far less than you.
