Most people that lease do so to get a car more expensive than they can afford to buy. Many people that lease cars get very bad deals.
Leasetrader is a site where people trying to dump their leases on someone else go. I looked up Montgomery County MD and the first least on the list was this one:
https://www.leasetrader.com/2018_Chevrolet_Equinox_LT_311662.xhtml
Contractual Lease Payment: $297.90 p/month
Advertised Payment: $199.95 p/month
So think about this, the person that leased this Equinox is willing to pay $1,763 to reduce the lease from about 300 a month to 200 a month in order to make this attract enough to ditch it.
Look at this one, that lease payment is pretty close to what you'd expect a car payment to be!
https://www.leasetrader.com/2018_Audi_S4_Prestige_316073.xhtml