Good for you. The modest 3 bedroom house next door to me is no more than 1500 square feet and rents for $2700 a month.
My mortgage is less than that because I bought my house years ago.
My son will never be able to afford to live in the neighborhood where he grew up.
I'm not moving because this is my home. The entire state has gotten expensive because of population growth pressure. It doesn't mean I should have to move out to BFE to live.
It does mean, however, that employers need to offer higher wages to fill local jobs. We already have a seafood shortage because no one can afford to work in picking houses and HB1 visas have been stopped which used to supply the cheap labor. And this in the state of Maryland defined by its seafood industry as well as coastal tourism.
Also, my MIL lives on Social Security alone and gets $40 a month in food stamps.