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re: Minimum wage in the 1970s would be the equivalent of making almost $56,000 a year now
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:25 pm to Scruffy
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:25 pm to Scruffy
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Healthy food option/healthier lifestyle is becoming more and more available.
Sure.
Is this even an advantage? I'd say the generations before boomers had healthier food than today. We have a bunch of processed crap and only recently have the majority of people woken up to the lies that food like eggs and red meat weren't good for you
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Posted on 4/23/26 at 6:08 pm to wm72
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However, my parents' 3BR/2Ba brick ranch style home built in the 1960s has custom stained pine paneling and real oak floors throughout the entire house. It has a pine ceiling in the family room, custom pine kitchen cabinets, 8'X12' solid glass sliding doors to the back patio. These are now high end luxury features. A lot of those houses with marble countertops, the up graded fixtures, more expensive bathrooms etc are all sheetrock and many don't even have real wood floors and doors.
There were luxury houses in the 60s…
The house you describe was not the “average” home then, just like it’s not average now.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 6:14 pm to Bacon84
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There were luxury houses in the 60s…
The house you describe was not the “average” home then, just like it’s not average now.
Should have mentioned this was a government farm loan home, which meant a very long list of "luxury" restrictions. My dad was a 26 year old paper mill shift worker when they built.
My point was that while newer homes have some "luxury" features, the basic quality of materials and workmanship has been lowered to where many common things in the 60s-70s are now seen as luxury.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 4/23/26 at 6:29 pm to wm72
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Should have mentioned this was a government farm loan home, which meant a very long list of "luxury" restrictions. My dad was a 26 year old paper mill shift worker when they built. My point was that while newer homes have some "luxury" features, the basic quality of materials and workmanship has been lowered to where many common things in the 60s-70s are now seen as luxury.
Sure I don’t disagree with any of that.
But the average home that was mentioned in the OP, didn’t have these amenities as standard.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 10:55 pm to Bacon84
Started reading this thread but not going through 22 pages.
Maybe this has been mentioned, maybe not. There are still a lot of affordable housing available in rural areas across the Midwest, probably the South too. Small town living.
The problem is that in large metro areas housing costs can be extreme due to high demand and all the other factors mentioned already.
It would be a good thing for this country if we could spread out again. But opportunities in rural areas and small towns, not the greatest.
The answer is work from home. It's been demonstrated already that this can be done. People could have corporate remote work careers and live in small towns that are affordable and offer the small town lifestyle that is a great place to raise a family.
The small town and rural communities would appreciate the growth too.
Maybe this has been mentioned, maybe not. There are still a lot of affordable housing available in rural areas across the Midwest, probably the South too. Small town living.
The problem is that in large metro areas housing costs can be extreme due to high demand and all the other factors mentioned already.
It would be a good thing for this country if we could spread out again. But opportunities in rural areas and small towns, not the greatest.
The answer is work from home. It's been demonstrated already that this can be done. People could have corporate remote work careers and live in small towns that are affordable and offer the small town lifestyle that is a great place to raise a family.
The small town and rural communities would appreciate the growth too.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:08 pm to wm72
Pine paneling from back in the day wasn't considered high dollar.
Pine flooring wasn't either.
Pine flooring wasn't either.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 1:54 am to Techdave
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Get a better degree or trade, save your money, don't spend on stupid shite, build equity in a smaller house then upgrade to a larger one. There, I solved this problem.
Trade degrees are absolutely useless unless you already have entrepreneurial skills to begin with. Most tradesmen won’t have their own businesses and the majority who try will fail. And besides, the majority of tradesmen are absolute morons who couldn't find their assholes with both hands.
This post was edited on 4/24/26 at 1:56 am
Posted on 4/24/26 at 2:06 am to Bayou_Tiger_225
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Nashville, Dallas, Houston, Boise, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Austin, and Charlotte are some great examples.
Houston shouldn’t even be on that list. It’s a giant collection of sprawling suburbs that keeps getting built further and further out on farmland. It’s nothing like the housing situation in cities like Boise and Phoenix.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 8:37 am to theunknownknight
Wasn’t the 1970s one of the worst economic periods in recent American history
Posted on 4/24/26 at 8:39 am to mikie421
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In 1971 a middle class type new home had no garage, Formica, particle board cabinets, linoleum flooring
This house is $200k today and it’s…. “In the ghettooooo”
Posted on 4/24/26 at 8:55 am to BluegrassBelle
I have a newer Nissan with significantly less miles than this I will sell for less than 10k
Posted on 4/24/26 at 9:29 am to JasonDBlaha
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the majority of tradesmen are absolute morons who couldn't find their assholes with both hands.
And yet you can't install your own flooring or properly wire a three way light switch.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 9:47 am to theunknownknight
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minimum wage = $1.60 per hour
Well hell! I was doing good at that time, pulling down a stout $1.85 per hour. Who knew!
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