"We need to stop expecting the same damn people who bought a four-bedroom home and a brand-new Cadillac convertible off of a $30,000-a-year salary to understand what it’s like to be working 40-plus hours a week with a master’s degree and still not being able to afford a 400-square-foot studio apartment in bumf-ck Iowa"<p>"We need to stop expecting the same damn people who bought a four-bedroom home and a brand-new Cadillac convertible off of a $30,000-a-year salary"<p>This hasn't been the case for many decades and not in my lifetime (I'm in my 40s).<p>However, many people now can afford to get an apartment in 'bumf-ck Iowa', but want something close to where they work, and can't afford it.