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It has to be in trouble. When housing becomes unaffordable in relation to incomes, some thing's going to give.

Aliens are used to overcrowded housing with 2-4 families in single family housing units to meet high costs, maybe this is the wave of the future.

Just like two income families have become the norm in order to meet the rising costs of living. "DINK" is no longer a path to a cushy lifestyle, now it's just survival.

The American dream is dying, thanks to Globalization.

Thanks, free trade suckers.

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Just like two income families have become the norm in order to meet the rising costs of living. "DINK" is no longer a path to a cushy lifestyle, now it's just survival.

Two incomes have become the norm in the McMansion set. However, I know quite a few younger couples who have elected to have mom stay home with the kids. The solution: they live in much smaller houses, which actually look a lot like the houses we grew up a generation ago, when most moms stayed home.

Expectations have changed. That's not a crisis of incomes; it's a problem of young people wanting too much too soon. Delaying marriage and childbirth (guilty on both counts myself) is part of the problem. Young people get hooked into the two-income lifestyle including the big mortgage long before the rug rats appear. They then find it extremely difficult to take a deliberate step down in housing, neighborhood, and perceived social status, so they get squeezed.