Your dollar has been debased. But if you price it in gold- avg house was $7400 in 1950, gold at $40/oz. Which is about 185 ounces. Taken today at $2600/oz that's $480,000. Which if you opt for actual quality materials that will last you'd find they're almost equivalent. Only problem is our pay hasn't kept up with gold's rise since 1950. The difference is what the jews have stolen for the past 70 years.
What's even more infuriating is it you price the average weekly paycheck in 1950 as $60 ($3300 annual) is gold equivalent to almost $4000 weekly ($208k annual). Jews stole that value out of our money. And that's AVERAGE pay, what a trucker or school teacher could expect. Wife wouldn't have to work, big families would be easy to support.
Don't ever forgive them.
What's even more infuriating is it you price the average weekly paycheck in 1950 as $60 ($3300 annual) is gold equivalent to almost $4000 weekly ($208k annual). Jews stole that value out of our money. And that's AVERAGE pay, what a trucker or school teacher could expect. Wife wouldn't have to work, big families would be easy to support.
Don't ever forgive them.
* People built their own homes. They didn't hire people to do it. Homes weren't mass-built until the 1950s, which is only 70 years ago.
* Homes were a lot smaller. 1,000 sq ft was considered more than enough to raise a family in. Remember, people only went home to eat or to sleep. They spent all the rest of their time outside. Even the women did all their chores outside.
* Homes were a lot simpler. Indoor plumbing wasn't really a thing. Electricity wasn't really considered a necessity. There were no central heating or cooling systems. At best, you had a wood stove in the center of the home. Insulation wasn't necessary since people would just wear warmer clothes and use blankets.
* There were no regulations, for the most part, about where you could build a home or how you had to build it.
You can still have a cheap affordable home today. You just can't do it where there is heavy regulation and you can't expect to have a modern home. Just accept the fact that the golden age of the US is over. You're not going to live a better lifestyle than your grandparents. Figure stuff out from there.
Remember, I grew up in the 1980s. In the 1970s we thought that the American Experiment was over. The 1980s seemed like borrowed time, a temporary reprieve from the inevitable. We had no idea that the economy would take off like it did. We fully expected to be living in a post-apocalyptic world as adults, if we survived the nuclear war.
That was the peak, counting for all those metrics. The common man never had it better than he did in 1992. Then came Clinton.
All you need is a nice big kitchen, and living area, with a short hallway that leads to two to three small bedrooms. Bedrooms are for sleeping!!! How big of a fucking room do you need to sleep in?!?
That's the trap. If you can afford a house like that, then you can probably afford a maid to keep it clean. And then a landscaper. And a handyman. And then a pool boy. It never ends. Expensive things don't just cost more to buy, they also cost more to keep and maintain. It wasn't the gold miners who got rich from the gold rush, it was the merchants who sold them all the tools and clothing they needed.
We stayed there for 8 years IIRC. Then we sold at a handsome profit, found a house to fit our family (we had 3 bedrooms between us and our 5 kids) and had a good time. My neighbors were all rich DINKs (a few had kids) so our kids got to live inside of a gated community with an ornamental playground with the neighbor kids who they all got to know really well. We're still friends with some of the families who were also raising kids rather than investing in property. That house turned out to be a big win as well, since again we waited until the market started going down again to buy.
Now we live in a smaller house and we're thinking of selling it and building a small 2-bedroom house because the kids are growing up and getting married and leaving. My wife insists we need to build a hotel for our kids to bring their kids and for family events and I told her we'd be wasting our money.
You never need as much house as you think. It was a decent investment to be sure but it didn't make as much money for me as it could've. It was nice because we got a nice return but it was years and years compounded on itself, nothing close to what I was earning or making from my other investments, but nice.
What's sad is I bought this house out in the middle of nowhere specifically to be out in the middle of nowhere, but people keep trying to move out here. The house has almost doubled in price according to Zillow. I doubt that's real, since no one can get loans anymore. But at least on paper I've made even more money.
Houses are ridiculous. My great grandma grew up in a house that was a kitchen, a bedroom, a parlor, and a basement where you could store your root veggies. Next to the house was a "garage" that could fit a single car. My grandma grew up with a dirt floor in Missouri. She raised her kids in a two bedroom house. She had an actual living room but again, all of her chores were done outside. My dad raised his 8 kids in a house smaller than the house I own today. We packed the 7 boys in a single room, and the one girl in her own room, and we had a spare room that was used for sewing and computers. We actually had an upstairs and downstairs living room (in the basement.) That was in the 80s. They were paying 20% interest on their loan when they first got it.
It's all going to come crashing down soon, now that people know they don't need to live near the cities.