Median household income in my city of 40K is $70K. Household. The median home price is over $400K. It's that high because a toll lane was built to the nearest

Median household income in my city of 40K is $70K. Household. The median home price is over $400K. It's that high because a toll lane was built to the nearest metropolitan city so the urbanites priced out of living close to their jobs could flood surrounding areas without the city needing to expand housing. Meanwhile, our young graduates and public servants can't afford a mortgage in the town they work for, and the wealthy families either vote their enclaves to be exclusive receivers of local taxes, or else they carve themselves out to merge with the county of the metro area so they can siphon off their services, instead. You think $57K is trivial, but wealth inequality is draining local workers dry.