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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People want more things now. Bigger houses, eating out, house cleaners, more than one car, vacations, college for their kids, etc. I don’t know if things were actually cheaper but you are not comparing apples to apples. [/quote] People want more now, but wages have not kept pace with the COL. Forty or fifty years ago, a man without a college degree could give his family the 1970’s or 80’s version of OP’s lifestyle on just his own salary. Now a college-educated, dual income family owes on their own college loan debt, is more likely to need childcare, (which is costly, even if it allows you to bring in more income), higher housing costs, higher healthcare costs, and astronomically higher costs to send their own kids to college one day.[/quote]
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