$1400 a month!!!?Good God...You have have one nice house here in the states for that. And thats owning, not renting.
I can get a 2k sq/ft house, 40x50 shop, and 10 acres for that. How do you guys pay that much for so little?
Well, you do live in MO. You couldn't pay me that much to live in that state. I'd take a small flat at that price in a good city over anything in MO at a similar price. Rural/middle America has a low cost of living, but for some people also an extremely low desirability.