Re:Rent costs (Score 4, Insightful)

What are you talking about? Your post is full of decisions you made. You may not feel you have a choice, but in fact you just don't like the other choice. You job moved to the city, you chose to move with it rather than quit. You already have a house, you chose to stay in it rather than move to "ghettotropolis". I'm not saying that I would choose differently (I commute 30 miles myself), but to say you had no choice is wrong.