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But your parents didn't live in Israel 2019. Israel 1983 was more like today's Venezuela or Argentina. If you move today to a place comparable to Israel in 1983

• ido 2y ago
  Not sure why 2019 specifically, it's 2024. I think you also underestimate 1980s Israel - although there was a stock-market crash in 1983, it was not otherwise that poor- maybe more like today's Portugal or Greece than Venezuela. But anyway my parents were 1983 Israelis, they didn't come with future-Israel purchasing power - so they were able to afford their housing on the income of the time :) Other kids in my class had ± similar housing. Some were poor and had worse housing, but not 5 people in a 62m flat level of poverty- for that to be common you had to go back another couple decades (e.g. my mother's childhood experience in the 40s-50s was more like that, might have been common up to the 60s).
  • helge9210 2y ago
    > Not sure why 2019 specifically, it's 2024. Because in 2019 real estate was not only expensive by itself, but also all the future growth was added to a price. Today in 2024 you can buy very cheap in some places (north, for example). > there was a stock-market crash in 1983 Not just stock-market. By the time of the crash, Likud laid waste to the whole economy to undermine "the left".