If Tom Colicchio lives in a parquet floor rental with a tiny kitchen and a spiral staircase, how are we ever going to afford to buy in Manhattan?

We were really surprised today by this article in the New York Times magazine which profiles (among other things) the rental apartment of our favorite underseasoned chef extraordinaire Tom Colicchio.

It turns out that the Top Chef host and overpriced Craft founder lives in some sort of spiral staircase, parquet floor duplex because he "can't afford to buy the space and the view" that he can rent. Are you kidding us? In addition to wishing that he would run off with Padma Lakshmi already, we kind of hoped that at least this guy could afford a gourmet kitchen.