Living in a box here in the grid is what people generally describe as 'paying your dues.' A combination of desert dust, pollution from Mexico City, and 27/7 car exhaust does its best to choke your dreams and grind them into asbestos. But hold on, just hold on. It's gonna happen:

"In the entertainment business, the apartment has historically been home to the Industry’s underpaid underbelly. Success is celebrated with the purchase of a house — not an apartment, and not even a condo (unless you’re a soap-opera newcomer or under 21 years old). Just watch MTV’s Cribs, or VH1’s Fabulous Life of . . . to see who’s livin’ large. Alas, apartments are inhabited by the assistants, the D-kids, the striving screenwriters, the struggling comics and the indie wannabes. Little wonder that Jerry Bruckheimer, the rich-as-Croesus producer, once famously snarked, “If I made films for the critics, or for someone else, I’d probably be living in some small Hollywood studio apartment.”