If you can save $1000/month in rent by adding 200 hours of commute, why is that OK? And once you add in the extra thousands of miles of car travel, and having to pay for a car rather than being able to bike or take a bus, and it doesn't actually save any money...

Here are the estimated costs of living for various campuses, by three different methodologies:

https://twitter.com/weinberz/status/1596299620266962944?s=46...

The highest cost of living is where there's no escape to cheap housing by adding long commutes.

The people running these towns with high cost of living could add plenty of more housing, enough to reduce the cost of living, but have been spoiled brats about it. The level of entitlement among homeowners about not even seeing an apartment is absolutely astounding.