$3,000-5,000 "new" homes....My folks bought a brand new home for about 4k---On a *single* income... People nowadays pay that much every couple of months just in mortgage payments alone...lol..
Mom never had to work....Dad had the same secure job for 25 plus years with a great retirement package and full family medical benefits...
I remember Dad saying, "Gimme a bucks worth of regular" for the massive V8 station wagon....lol..
Life was really good in the late 40s, 50s and most of the 1960s...
America today isn't the same place.
Just a couple of years back that same post would have been greeted by howls of derisive laughter from the Blue Sky contingent on FR who would have called you insane for saying that their grandparents didn’t really work 100 hours a week to put gruel on the table and live in a 500 square foot shack. I don’t notice so much of that now.
Having lived in one of those $3,000-5,000 homes... it is most definitely *NOT* the type of home that families now spend $3-5,000/month to live in.
They were 2-3 bedrooms, 1 bath... no A/C (window units only), no dishwasher/washing machine/dryer/microwave standard, only 1 phone jack for the entire house, 1-2 power outlets per room, no cable line, and maybe 1,500-2,500 square feet.
Maybe in New York City you’d pay $3-5,000/month for that... but in some places like Florida, you’d get it for $300-500/month. And if it’s inland, you’d probably get it for $20-50,000.