Allot of people seemed to of missed this:

[Ashkendor]

The reason why you manage to "make gil" easily is because not a whole lot of ppl are doing what you and some others are doing.

Imagine everyone does what you did, do you seriously think you can sell anything at all?

Right, cause it takes so much effort to craft food and list it to the market board. I mean geez, spiritbonding gear and selling the materia is about downright impossible - you mayaswell try to clear T9 in your starting gear instead.

Ah. So you (an established crafter) can't afford anything above a small either. *nods*

Please do remember different servers have different economies. For example, One server sells IV materia for 700k ... My server it is 100-180k.
Yet we are in the same pricing group (highest).

Right, and that seems right to me. A small house is fine for an individual. *shrugs*

As far as pricing discrepancy, that's another story. I don't know the markets on other servers; I can only attest to my own. Tier IV's go up to 400-500k on my server. If there's really that wide of a discrepancy between servers in the same pricing bracket, then that's something that should definitely be addressed.