The cost of living near jobs rises because we've run out of the cheat that the Interstate highway system provided: access to 'reasonably' close areas without re

The cost of living near jobs rises because we've run out of the cheat that the Interstate highway system provided: access to 'reasonably' close areas without resource competition for living space. Instead we're seeing rising costs of living without substantively rising earnings squeeze the general population as rent seeking and logical (but probably not actual) collusion result in the non-property-owning classes being turned in to modern day serfs who rent everything and have no place they 'own'.