Are you not aware that this is the case? Look up affordability statistics.

Not sure if your point was caught up in all the negating but for clarity's sake:

Me + USA = starkly unaffordable. Rents here have ~doubled in 6yrs and are up 5-fold from 2000. Wages grow at a much slower pace - insuring the gap between wages and expenses grows continually.

Before we continue, please clarify whether you detected my sarcasm. Without that information your comment could be interpreted in two completely opposite ways