• glimse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m actively searching for a house to buy - smaller than the one that what I grew up in - and while you’re right about people wanting more space, it does not matter. Homes are disproportionally more expensive than they were in the 80s

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        1 year ago

        I was going to include house much they sold it for a few years ago but I didn’t think it was a fair comparison because they added a second floor

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          It’s the thing I use to hammer home the idea that our lives are dramatically worse than our parents. I could not dream of paying that mortgage but my mom could pay it as a single mother of two because they bought it in the 80s for 300k and engineer salaries allowed them to pay it.