re: The “time price” of square foot of housing is 24% lower than the 1950s

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getting that house that you wouldn't live in.

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Who ever said that? That's 10x the house someone who makes what your parents did could afford today. You're the only one who has said multiple times how bad it is.


Also shout out to old man Naylor for paying your war vet dad half of minimum wage for the misfortune of getting drafted and disabled during a war.

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This house being built today would not sell above construction costs:

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600k in houston

It’s not a 600k house. It’s a 600k location. There’s the rub. That house is probably 200k in most other places

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Old Character

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If they built a new subdivision of 1600sq ft houses with three bedrooms, window units, single car garages, linoleum flooring, cheap countertops, etc….would the people crying about home prices buy them?

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Y’all are so close to getting it

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If they built a new subdivision of 1600sq ft houses with three bedrooms, window units, single car garages, linoleum flooring, cheap countertops, etc….would the people crying about home prices buy them?

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builders don't really want to do that.

They are not saving that much money building smaller houses. Material cost isn't that big of asking price driver.

They can fetch better margins selling bigger houses so that is what they do.

also, it is not really the under 40s fault that sq ft grow rapidly year over year from 1950 to 2008

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Now you’re confused why yalls house in a ghetto isn’t worth dick

It’s hilarious



This post was edited on 6/2/26 at 4:10 pm

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Ah, a late edit to your post.

I know it "isn't worth dick". That's the point. They were willing to live there and keep pushing upwards to eventually achieve their goals.

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No it's not. It's a 940 square foot home with no AC in the fricking ghetto.

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Sure. That's better than what a single walmart cashier could afford to purchase today, which is essentially what your family was in the eyes of the VA. Would be tough to swing a house purchase in even the most ghetto areas of NOLA or BR for that.

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Well the job market for a middle school dropout, PTSD vet wasn't exactly booming in 1979.

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Just sucks that old man Naylor couldn't find it in his heart to pay your daddy what he would have paid some snot nosed kid who'd never worked a day in his life. Imagine that. You go off to war, get PTSD and you come back home and instead of maybe getting a little extra bump to get you back on your feet, your neighbor hits you with a 50% penalty. That's rough.

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Your story shifts with every post

My dad was a welder until he got a job at Exxon

My mom also worked as a receptionist

We lived in a single wide until I was ten years old

Your childhood is nothing special or difficult compared to any generation since your parents were young

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No, there are plenty of people who had it worse. What's your point? Everything I've posted is true. What specifically are you taking issue with? The fact that when pressed for details or when accused of fabricating I provide additional details and even fricking pictures? What exactly would satisfy your doubt oh internet user "Sun God"?

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If we are to take your story at face value (which no one should), your parents were able to purchase, own and maintain a house while raising children on less than minimum wage.

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I kind of doubt anyone knows how much their parents made when they were young with any degree of accuracy. He probably thinks he has the correct info but is mistaken.