I hate to agrue with my conservative brothers and sisters but Honestly , Captialism is the reason it is so expensive to live in a city. Here in Chicago where i work and live, all the high paying jobs are here , businesses that open in the area are high Commodity, even crap food is high because people in the city can afford it. Its a win win situation when everything is going well, its times like this when inflation is soaring that it becomes more than burdensome. The prices are going up but our paychecks are not.