Agreed. These artificial constraints are playing out in desirable locations everywhere in our country, as compared to say eastern Kentucky or Ashtabula, Ohio.

Agreed. These artificial constraints are playing out in desirable locations everywhere in our country, as compared to say eastern Kentucky or Ashtabula, Ohio. While incomes have indeed gone up in real terms, mandatory living expenditures for all Americans who don't consider a park bench to be shelter have also gone up in real terms in a more than proportional manner.