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A house isn’t. Healthcare isn’t. A lunch isn’t. A child’s daycare isn’t. Energy isn’t. Heating isn’t… Even a car is safer and nicer but the utility is the exact

A house isn’t. Healthcare isn’t. A lunch isn’t. A child’s daycare isn’t. Energy isn’t. Heating isn’t… Even a car is safer and nicer but the utility is the exact same.

HDThoreaun 3y ago
Houses and healthcare are very different from 2 decades ago.
- tristor 3y ago
  You're right. Healthcare is more cautious and more expensive. Housing is built to higher standards but with poorer quality materials, and uses more of the available lot area for covered square footage, but is still more expensive on a per square footage basis despite using poorer materials. Neither are remarkably different in utility, but both have seen astronomical increases in cost.
- littlestymaar 3y ago
  Healthcare is somewhat different, but also many things (if not most) haven't changed at all and have seen their price increase nonetheless. As for housing, only new housing has changed, old one mostly hasn't. Also if it's a somewhat bigger house but it's more remote from city center where people work, leading to higher commute times and expenses, is that supposed to be better or worse, how do you quantify that?
throw0101b 3y ago
> A house isn’t. Depends on the house. Square footage has increased, and so have building and efficiency (insulation, air tightness) codes.
- littlestymaar 3y ago
  You're talking about new houses here though. Not the gigantic existing stock (which also has seen its price rise).
  - throw0101b 3y ago
    A house from 2020 is different than once from 2000, is different than one from 1980. I used to live in a house that was originally constructed in 1890: it not only had residual disconnected knob-and-tube electrical wiring, but piping for gas lamp lighting. Some homes in the neighbourhood had small doors for milk deliveries and also coal chutes.
    - littlestymaar 3y ago
      Sure, but even today more people live in houses from the 80s than in house from 2020, so comparing the average house price in 2023 with the house standard from 2020 doesn't really make sense, because the average house is much older than this.

A house isn’t. Healthcare isn’t. A lunch isn’t. A child’s daycare isn’t. Energy isn’t. Heating isn’t… Even a car is safer and nicer but the utility is the exact same.

HDThoreaun 3y ago

Houses and healthcare are very different from 2 decades ago.

tristor 3y ago
You're right. Healthcare is more cautious and more expensive. Housing is built to higher standards but with poorer quality materials, and uses more of the available lot area for covered square footage, but is still more expensive on a per square footage basis despite using poorer materials. Neither are remarkably different in utility, but both have seen astronomical increases in cost.
littlestymaar 3y ago
Healthcare is somewhat different, but also many things (if not most) haven't changed at all and have seen their price increase nonetheless. As for housing, only new housing has changed, old one mostly hasn't. Also if it's a somewhat bigger house but it's more remote from city center where people work, leading to higher commute times and expenses, is that supposed to be better or worse, how do you quantify that?

throw0101b 3y ago

> A house isn’t. Depends on the house. Square footage has increased, and so have building and efficiency (insulation, air tightness) codes.

littlestymaar 3y ago
You're talking about new houses here though. Not the gigantic existing stock (which also has seen its price rise).
- throw0101b 3y ago
  A house from 2020 is different than once from 2000, is different than one from 1980. I used to live in a house that was originally constructed in 1890: it not only had residual disconnected knob-and-tube electrical wiring, but piping for gas lamp lighting. Some homes in the neighbourhood had small doors for milk deliveries and also coal chutes.
  - littlestymaar 3y ago
    Sure, but even today more people live in houses from the 80s than in house from 2020, so comparing the average house price in 2023 with the house standard from 2020 doesn't really make sense, because the average house is much older than this.