I’ll give up; we’re talking two different languages and can’t persuade the other. Will just say that my father could support five kids on a low paying job, without my mom working, bought a house fully furnished for $6000, and fed us well. That was the 1950s. He didn’t make $10,000 until 1970. Now young couples with good salaries can’t afford a house, have only 1 or 2 kids (if at all), and both have to work. The dollar may have become stronger this summer, but its value depends on how you look at it. There are quite a few products that went up in price, not just a few. Costs are rising faster than our ability to deal with them. That’s where we are losing value. You can have the last word. Cheers, my friend.
The typical couple today would consider the 1950 house, along with the TV’s, appliances and cars, to be beneath them. We put to much value on stuff and not enough on family.
My wife stayed home from the birth of our first child 18 years. I usually had a good job but not always. We choose to do without some stuff and spent more time with the kids.
When I hear claims of most one incomes cann9t make it, I know most people in this country don’t know what poor really is.
Even today, making very good money, I still turn a crank handle to put down the windows of my truck. I don’t need the fancy stuff.