Yup. My mother talked often about how they were poor when i was a child. The house i was born in is worth over a million today and was just a couple hundred thousand back then.
The miracle is surviving til you’re 18 with parents that aren’t financially stable and yet decided to have you anyways. There is no excuse, if you have children you should be able to care for them.
Housing was far cheaper. They also didn’t have subscriptions to Netflix Amazon and and everything else. Him pretty sure petrol was cheaper as well. Maybe food but I’m not sure depending on location. Can check out inflation of money for each year.
Anecdotal. My fil was saying he bought some land for 30k 30 years ago. I checked what they actually was in today’s money. It’s 50k. That house now sells for 650k plus. That’s the difference. Lots of things are cheaper now but housing has gone up significantly. Wages have stagnated and food is probably similar
Yeah my parents might have been spending more (possibly nominally, but definitely adjusted for inflation) on cable subscriptions than I am on all of my subscriptions combined at any point.
I’m not saying you do. Just that we have more subscriptions now than ever before. Honestly what did people do without tv ? Read board games ? Just go to bed. My mind can’t comprehend it.
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