Yep, here where I live there's too much difference as well, although the prices you're mentioning sound significantly lower than here were I do. And, by the way, sorry about what happened with your ex-wife 😟
Yep, you're right. But the example I gave above is a symptom that something is broken. Many decades ago, in many countries within the Western hemisphere, a middle class worker with NO university at all was able to buy a home in only 10 years, whilst feeding a family of 4. Nowadays we reached the situation where some cities in the world are renting capsules for individuals: in L.A., for instance, there are renting capsules for living at a monthly price of $750 (check the video about it).
Take in mind that the video above was published in 2019, the capsules price are very likely higher now. Bart Simpson's tree house was bigger and healthier than that. I'm not an economist, but I think the proof that buying homes can be much easier is that it was already done in the past.
It's sad to live in such a contradictory world. A construction worker needs to work a few months to build a home, but would need to work 50 years to pay it. The problem is that most of people just get used to, instead of consider that something completely unacceptable, that's why there's no reaction, and the few people who dear to react are considered "weirdos" by the rest who just conforms.
Sometimes joking about silly concerns make us forget for one second about the hard ones. That's why I love watching old episodes of ALF complaining about he's not allowed to ride a washing machine ^^
Yep, here where I live there's too much difference as well, although the prices you're mentioning sound significantly lower than here were I do. And, by the way, sorry about what happened with your ex-wife 😟