Shoot, I pay $1200 for a 1 bedroom apt in SF bay.
Lack of money should never be an obstacle for going to college. There's a lot of money floating around out there for education. Loans, scholarships, military...etc. One of my friends in college was from mexico and was dirt poor. He was so poor that he went years with a toothache because he couldn't afford to go to the dentist. He had a old solid axle toyota that got swept away in a flood in mexico and so drove around this huge tuna boat car that had no front brakes. Yet, he saw it important enough to get student loans and scholarships, plus work while in school. Do a google search for student loans etc. One of the loan places is fasfa.