#1 - And we more commonly refer to people like you as the teeming masses of poor, lazy, clueless, over-educated, under-achieving, boring, apathetic, judgmental, self-rightous nobodies who would be better off living in a flyover state in a little flyover town.
Which is precisiely the reason why residential real estate prices will not go down substantially in Manhattan - we're all working together very hard to price to your asses out - WAY out. You're already becoming a minority. But we'll definitely see to it that we further close the noose much tighter before we're done. A few of you will squeeze through with your rent controlled/stabilized apartments and whatnot. But there will eventually be so few of you left as to have exactly as much effect as a fruit fly would on the back of a brontosaurus.