I'm disengaging.
Chapo0114
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Curious, as the person who you were originally responding to deleted their comment. Is that per year or a one time expenditure?
Also, 36k is still literally 44-80% higher than your initial claim.
Apes of the State have a cool sound, will have to dig more into them.
Data instead of anecdotes?
1975 =/= 1980. Looks like housing went up 64% in those 5 years from the data I already linked.
Youth by Daughter is a great taste of their style. Love Boygenius and like Billie, will have to give Apes of the State a listen.
Sad Girl music like Daughter and Julien Baker?
That's an exaggeration. The median price for new construction in 1980 was $64,600. [1] As for existing housing stock, the median home value in 1980 was $47,200. [2] As housing prices are heavily right skewed, the prices of cheap housing is far closer to the median than the price of expensive housing. Based on a cursory overview of some charts, it seems like the bottom 20% of houses are no more that 30% cheaper than the median, putting them in the $30k range.
Most Americans have less than $1000 in savings. Unless you live day trip distance from something most people won't ever see it.
Even apartments can be build better. Concrete subfloor units with proper baffling (air gap between units, also makes utility work easier) means I've only heard neighbors when they were doing things like using a drill.
The first time I realized I was, for lack of a better word, different than the people I grew up around is when one of my high school buddies just casually said we should "just glass the middle east and get it over with". Glassing is a term we got from Halo which means to incinerate an area with such a high heat the surface turns to glass. His proposed method was obviously nuclear bombs.
No one else thought it was an outlandish thing to say, much less a truly abhorrent one.