>this is what a low income/edge of poverty household looked like in the 80's
>>214205978>Bob Rooney died in the walls thereRIP
>>214205978Why was literally everything in the 80s brown and made of wood? Looked like a horrific time to be alive
>>214206075>gimme that millenial aesthetic
>>214206075afraid of a litte SOVL, anon?
>>214206075High trust society. You wouldn't get it.
>>214205978Picture some cardboard boxes - at the hardware store you can get them free from people dropping them off. Now, flatten the cardboard and use $2 worth of glue to make larger sheets with the pieces overlapping. Now stand 4 of these up into walls and put one on the top. That's an American house. To build it two stories high, you need almost twice as much cardboard, sure - but it's free. You will have to spend about 6 more dollars on the glue for that part. But still. How hard do you really think it was in the 80s, or today, to come up with $8 for an American house?
>>214205978Wasn't it implied they were constantly under threat of foreclosure and had fucked credit?
>>214206104looks comfy and easier to clean
>>214206335>Wood paneling on carDisgusting
>>214206565But it lacks soul
>>214206075Ah, finally discovered that the neon-geometric design that's usually shown as being 80s was really only for bed sheets and notebook covers. Woodgrain was so popular that even plastic tv shells had it.
>>214206075>Looked like a horrific time to be aliveYet it wasn't, zoomie.
>>214206661>every house built with nice wood cabinets>everyone is now willing to pay a fuckton to have them painted white or greys'loadsomone
>>214206075Cheap plywood, particle boards were seen as "the new thing" back then, you could have the wood grain of your choice in veneer
Keep in mind that suburban housing only really started after WWII and people generally were less likely to do constant renovations like they do now. House flipping wasn't common. Houses generally were for living in, not for maximizing resale value. If your house had plaster walls, you tended to keep plaster walls. If it had wood paneling, you tended to keep that. Certainly there were fashion trends with interior design, but the cycles were much slower and fewer people participated in them. >>214206700I recently moved to Michigan for family reasons and there's a fuckton of houses here that are like time capsules. An old person dies and their kids from out of state just want to sell it as fast as possible without sink any money into it. You get these crazy interior designs from the 90s, 80s, or even earlier that have barely been touched. They might be well worn but often are still original.
>>214206075Wood is beautiful, man. I wish wooden panels hadn't gone out of fashion.
>>214205978https://youtu.be/qj9OEmUr0F8?si=krseokH4dGglDWYc!!!FACT!!!
>>214205978>>this is what a low income/edge of poverty household looked like in the 80'sWtf happened bros?
>>2142077051.troons only make up like 0.3% of the population.2. Boomers got greedy and won't allow any new houses to be built because it may lower there home value. Supply did not meet demand now they're astronomically expensive
>>214207727>1.troons only make up like 0.3% of the populationNot in the US
>>214207756One in 225 is 0.44%, which is close to what that anon posted. Also I doubt that image is accurate since Iran is well known for having lots of trannies, which the government provides free transition services.
>>214207848The image is accurate, I got it from X
>>214207848>Iran is well known for having lots of trannies, which the government provides free transition services.iran forces gays to become trannies as its less haram, somehow. its either that or pic
>>214207848Nobody’s ever done the breakdown but if you took the entire population of white people in the USA under 25 and saw how many were trannies it would be close to 95%
>>214207953Bad bait
>>214205978>Average downtown Detroit houseCheck out downtown Detroit how they look 40 years later at ANY level of maintenance
>>214208077There’s only like 400000 white children in the US according to the census
>the average US american family real estate during the 90s
looks like the set of too many cooks
>>214206075It's beautiful in comparison to grey on beige. Grey is the devil's color.
>>214206661Holdover from the 70s. By the mid 80s wood paneling was replaced by piano black for electronics.
>>214207462I would say the top pic was built in the 60s and the bottom in the 70s.
>>214206075The western world of the 70s and the early 80s overlap is the ugliest period of fashion and design in human history
>>214208504Back in the day that would've been a doctor's house. These days a young doctor would be lucky to get a 3-bedroom with garage.
>>214208217I’m doing my part to ensure that number goes down
>>214208504>The home every character in a John Hughes movie about an average American living and average life
>>214208817It was a pretty shitty time overall. I had a period where I was off work for a month and watched classics throughout the decades. The mid 70s early 80s were depressing and ugly, felt hopeless like today. All the "fun 80s" was infact the mid 80s.
>>214208841Where I live, new connected housing units cost around $400,000. The type of housing once built for lower income families now being sold as more posh property is fucked.
>>214207727they also bought multiple, like a game of monopoly, they rent the others out to buy more. Because FUCK YOU, that’s why.
>>214208919The world peaked during the 90's and 2000's pre smartphone period. Unfortunately we can never go back.
>>214208935I got a house for 450k that's a basic as shit 3 bedroom detached on a postage stamp, but I live in one of the "cheaper" parts of the country. The real value of my house would be 180k in a wage adjusted world. I have a feeling in the future, maybe 3 decades when the mass boomer die off happens, private companies are going to buy family homes like crazy and turn them all into pod-plexes. A small house with a large plot in my neighborhood sold for 2mil cause they're going to turn it into an apartment building.
>>214206075because a lot of that shit was leftover from the 60s and 70s. >le things were built to last back then!Especially true in the days before particle board.
>>214209185>private companies are going to buy family homes like crazy and turn them all into pod-plexesPrivate equity groups are already buying up entirely new areas being built and installing brutal HOAs as a means to kick people out to snatch up properties. Like were talking going after you for the most minor of things to the point they acquire the house right from under your nose because the HOA contract you had to sign just to be allowed live there says they can. Most times the person in charge of the HOA is connected to that equity group which gives them the incentive to screw over others. The US is a fucked place to live.
>>214206075Millennial gray is worse
>>214205978Meanwhile zoomers have to live in a small box for the rest of their lives lmao
>>214207462>Houses generally were for living in, not for maximizing resale value.Is this what zoomers really believe?
>This was a normal middle class house in the 00s
>>214206075>wood is somehow worse than plastic and fibreboardyour brain on ikea
Why don't poor people just get better jobs?
>>214210600>Big house and a fleet of spook carsGawd, I wish that was me. Those cars haul ass.
>>214210628They can't compete with Indians.
>>214210657Says a lot about poor people.
>>214208102What a downtown Detroit house currently looks like.
>>214208102Paris of the Midwest.
>>214210600That government-subsidized-condo/apartment-patchworked facade screams "the interior of this shithole smells like Somalia". Learn the signs and signals to protector yourself.t. Minnesotan
>>214209185nigger that's already happening, where the fuck were you during covid posting when everyone was complaining about Blackrock buying up all the homes in smalltowns and jacking up the rent. fucking investment banks are the biggest holders of housing rentals in the country now
>>214210799>BlackrockIt's Blackstone, it's hilarious how Blackrock has been your all-purpose bogeyman for anything that rustles your jimmies.
>>214206075dont forget asbestos
>>214210893Same company dick for brians.
>>214210915The lead and asbestos would toughen ya up. Do you want to live forever?
>>214210967They absolutely are not. Blackrock is the big stock-managing public equity giant, Blackstone's thing is "alternative investments" and private equity. Property/housing being one of their alternative strategies.
>>214205978I understand your confusion, because being retarded is hard, but actually that's what a television set looked like.
>>214210799>when everyone was complaining about Blackrock buying up all the homes in smalltowns and jacking up the rentI don't really see what lots of retards posting about stupid made up bullshit has to do with anything. The "wall street bought all the houses now they're expensive" narrative was always a load of bullshit parroted by uneducated faggots mad on twitter, and the reality is that supply went down while demand went up, so shit got more expensive. Builders stopped building because shit got expensive because of cascading failures at every level of government to understand that "shut down FUCKING EVERYTHING" was an insane idea that was going to have huge consequences, and it takes a very long time for an industry like homebuilding to get back to normal after something like that. Add to that the fact that zoning policies and building regulations have been steadily built up over decades to disincentivize building anything small or affordable and the result is that nobody can afford anything you retard.
>>2142091991960s still had 50s glamor, along with the "plastic future" trend that Fallout and Bioshock satirizes. I guess hippies and Manson and inflation and Watergate and Tonkin etc ushered in the ugly dirty sweaty hairy depressing 70s, thank god that was over by the 80s
>>214210765It has the AI watermark in the corner. That's why it looks so retarded.
>>214210564You can literally see the moment speculation outran inflation
>>214210672Cherry picking an obvious reno won't help. Detroit has been in decline for decades.
>>214210664When did every shitlib turn into Ayn Rand
They made it illegal to build your own house and improve it over time, now houses are expensive and shitty.>but le private inve-They made it illegal to build your own house and improve it over time.
>>2142112201970's is when corporatism begins to take over and buildings start looking boxy with Brutalist architecture (as seen in the image) of cement or brown bricks with big glass panels and colours become muted with ugly browns, yellows, greens and oranges replacing the popping technicolour inspired colours of the 60's to cut costs. We're reliving that again as we see franchises over the past 15 years ditch location uniqueness for looking box shape and grey to cut costs and be ready to sell later in the future because uniquely shaped buildings are really hard to sell off when a business closes as a corporation that makes its money on property location as oppose to product sales. And with home delivery becoming more popular it really doesn't matter if the building is different looking if no one is going there anyways.
>>214207909That's because when you transition, you transform your body to fit a traditional gender role, it's 100% conservative.
>>214211575>you transform your body to fit a traditional gender roleYeah, just like in all those videos of them stroking their traditional feminine cocks.
>>214211220>1960s still had 50s glamor, along with the "plastic future" trendIF you were some rich coastal. Things have ceaselessly been nice for the rich.
>>214211706You weren't supposed to watch thousands of hours of that Anon.
>>214211768You're not my dad
>>214211783You can't be sure of that.
>>214209518Everyone enjoys the game of Free Market Capitalism, despite the fact that it's the same winners taking home all the prizes.
>>214206634who gives a shit?
>>214211575Most trans women transition into being ugly trashy hookers, not traditional anything.
>>214211245kek the "crash" in 08 literally did fuck all to correct prices and just made things worse
>>214207462this, many kids who grew up in the '80s lived in houses that were built and furnished in the '70s, that's why they remember being surrounded by a style that was popular a decade earlier.here in Europe it's even more evident, since people tend to move a lot less. As a result, renovations are subtle and infrequent (it's usually just painting the walls every decade or so). if a piece of furniture is not broken you're not going to replace it just because it's a bit out of style.
>>214211986That's because the actual crash wasn't allowed to happen, the fed started buying up mortgage backed securities like crazy specifically to prevent it, and now that they've realized "oh shit, this is retarded we can't just own all of the mortgage backed securities, time to sell them off" demand is all fucked up, mortgage rates are starting to go insane and won't calm down for a very long time.
>>214206075It was like a cheap simulacra of wealthy people's wood panelling and it did indeed look shitty. The 80's were great, but the decor was fucking awful and the polar opposite of soul.
>>214210967Retard alert
>>214211358imagine being european our laws are way worse
>>214207705Because this fuck made corporate deregulation happen.
>>2142124111990's houses are way better. Later Boomers and Early Gen Xers were in great houses with really good mortgage rates.
It was a sitcom. They had to build a large set for all the actors to fit.
>>214213949They sold Trickle Down economics easily to the population. It was under him a lot of public things started to see decline as well like schools which is when you start to see Americans get dumber and take pride in ignorance. He also emptied out and shut down mental facilities which put a lot of unstable people out on the streets which is where the whole "crazy homeless guy" trope got popularized.
Reminder this show was made by black men to mock white.
>>214209185Lmao, that's arleady been happening for close 2 decades, nigger. Really ramped up during the last 10 years and it's getting worse and worse. In fact this is what most of the brainlets here identify as le evil boomer speculation etc. Most of it is companies buying up homes that average people have to sell because they get poorer and poorer. Buy up foreclosures, bulldoze, build shitty appartement buildings all over neighborhood, jack up already inflated rents, sell for inflated price, rinse and repeat etc.
>>214213949deregulation is literally the opposite of why houses are expensive now retard
>>214206634you lack appreciating simplicity
>>214205978He was the manager of a women's shoe shop. Women spend lots of money on shoes.
