2 quotes for you by Dave Ramsey. I'm sure you've heard them before.
“If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”
“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
The money you pay to your landlord is gone with the wind, why give him more? I'm sure that rent:income ratio was invented by a landlord.
BBI will solve it :)