"In Houston, $225,000 will buy a three-bedroom house with a game room, den, in-ground pool and hot tub. In Manhattan, it will buy a parking space."

This New York Times article is about parking spaces in New York City selling for upwards of $200,000. PARKING SPACES! The woman I hate the most in the article doesn't even live in her New York City apartment on West 28th Street; she and her three kids come into the city twice a week for their "modeling appointments" and use that apartment as a "pied a terre."

"If we’re coming in late from dinner or we have a lot of stuff in the car, do we really want to have to walk a few blocks to get home?" she says.

Oh my God, lady, you have no idea what some people go through for affordable living situations in New York.