Because you attract talent by high salaries, so try to save elsewhere (especially when office rental prices are astronomical). You yourself are yet another pro

Because you attract talent by high salaries, so try to save elsewhere (especially when office rental prices are astronomical). You yourself are yet another proof of this - you changed whatever rural environment you had to go into cramped office with very high salary. Clearly, the money was more important to you than vast open plains and remoteness. Most folks work this way. You ask for private space near colleagues - that's a premium anywhere. I presume you don't mean tiny cubicle but actual quiet room. Almost nobody has these in corporate environment for various reasons, certainly not regular employees.