Adjusting for inflation:Average income ~$40,500New House ~$91,300New car ~$20,100Average rent ~$630 per monthHarvard ~$9,800 per yearMovie ticket: ~$5.85Gas ~$2.34Postage stamp ~$0.70
>>18438333The real question is where. Houses in coastal cities are still going to cost more than houses in flyoverville, which probably lowers the average if we're talking nationwide averages here
>>18438335also what does the 1938 "new house" look like, there were many different grades of housing in 1938. The rest (other than rent for the reason you noted) are depressing to see though, if true.
>>18438337I grew up in a house built in 1935, and it was pretty cool. It was a spacious 4 bedroom brick house in a Colonial floorplan on a half-acre lot in the Philadelphia suburbs, with hardwood floors and beautiful plasterwork and moldings on all the ceilings. The only downside was that it had no air conditioning and was heated with steam radiators fueled by a temperamental oil-burning furnace in the basement.
>>18438354sure, I'm living in a quite nice 3 story house built in 1922 in a suburb of NYC. But what about the 1938 equivalent of a crack shack, some tiny piece of shit slapped together by the owner from one of those mail order packages where you'd order the house from a catalog and they'd mail the plans and materials to you. Those were very popular back then but very few of them are still standng.
>>18438363the quality is essentially no different than a new build is considering the new builds are made from particleboard assembled by barely literate illegal immigrants housing is the biggest scam on the planet
>>18438333Inflation is wrong. In 1900 a cent would be equal to about a dollar today. In 1938, a few years after the price of gold was artificially hiked from 20 dollars to 35 dollars a cent in 1938 would equal about 60 cents today. When you adjust it and account for other things like qol then you’ll find out that nothing has changed except for the dollar being devalued. If you aren’t born rich you are poor and must claw your way to the top whilst giving up most good things in your life like your youth! That being said, today we have ease of communication and lots of entertainment slop for better or worse.
>>18438333>Adjusting for inflation:>Average income ~$40,500>New House ~$91,300>New car ~$20,100>Average rent ~$630 per month>Harvard ~$9,800 per year>Movie ticket: ~$5.85>Gas ~$2.34>Postage stamp ~$0.70It literally was like this up until the Housing Bubble in 2008, it all went to shit after that.
>>18438373the kind of particle board you see used for cheap furniture and shelving, and the "particle board" you see used to build houses are not the same material.This is the material used for buildinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriented_strand_boardcomparehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_board
>>18438373Spoken like someone who has never actually owned a house and never will.
>>18438421>>18438415>t. “owns” a cardboard mcmansion that will be condemned in 40 years
>>18438424Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of me being a property owner and you needing to shell out monthly fees to a slum lord to occupy a cuckbox in some high-rise. Condemn what? Oh I can just build whatever kind of residential dwelling I want where I am. I can tear my house down right now and replace it all with brick and cinder-blocks. I am above you and your non-arguments you peasant.
>>18438430>coping over his cardboard “asset”
>>18438449>every house made of wood is acktually cardboardRetard
>>18438333In 1938 you were lucky to even afford food.
