We've got richer while food has got relatively cheaper, transport has got relatively cheaper, all the things you need to live have got relatively cheaper, so it

We've got richer while food has got relatively cheaper, transport has got relatively cheaper, all the things you need to live have got relatively cheaper, so it isn't really surprising that all the extra money is going towards people's homes. On top of that all the nice things have gotten cheaper. Listening to music is now cheap. Books, news, entertainment are cheap. Yes you may have had a car (24 million cars in 1940 v 135million population) but then you wouldn't have had a fridge, TV. And youre comparing someone relatively wealthy, to someone who can't afford rent. If you were poor you probably didn't have electricity, indoor toilet, more than one heated room in the house, and probably lucky if you could afford enough food. I'm from the UK and we went through this a bit later so it's still within living memory. My dad remembers getting an indoor toilet an plumbed in bath for the first time, that was late 50s/ early 60s.