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I doubt even a middle-middle class family could attain their standard of living, within 100 miles of where they lived. Their house was around 1200 sq ft, 3 bedr
by psyc 9y ago
I doubt even a middle-middle class family could attain their standard of living, within 100 miles of where they lived. Their house was around 1200 sq ft, 3 bedrooms, and is valued at $500k today.
- bandrami 9y ago> Their house was around 1200 sq ft That's rather unlikely. The average new home size in 1960 was less than 1000 sq ft (it's over 2500 sq ft today), and pretty much all existing stock at that point was under 1000 sq ft. Meanwhile, most urban apartments were SROs or what would today be called studios. Over the decades, the houses got additions and the apartments had interior walls knocked out and got combined. Our obsession with floorspace is one of the big drivers of housing being so expensive.
- psyc 9y agoYou are now veering off into baseless assertions. I just looked up the house on Trulia this minute. 1400 sq ft, 3 bed, $600k. Also I’ve lived in this state my whole life and there are abundant large, old homes.