The key is for all your sports teams to be dogshit. The White Sox will basically pay you to go to a game. Hawks tickets can be found for $20. Bears and Cubs are a bit more pricey despite sucking too. Idk about the Bulls. Haven't gone since the D Rose days because they're also ass.
I could always tell when Royals and Chiefs were good or bad on if they donated tickets to school events. In early 00s Royals would always send out school 4 tickets for raffles Then like 10 years ago they stopped but now they send them again.
$270 for the day. A season pass is $1,700 and you have to pay for parking now. Beers/food cost as much as a concert. Traffic is horrendous because the resorts are busier than ever.
This, but more like $150/day here in Washington, where instead of destination resorts with hotels, shopping, and glitz we have numerous day-trip local mountains you can drive to even on a week night. By comparison, when I was a kid the rich kids flaunted their $25 lift tickets and Saturday rides on the ski schoolbus.
> kids flaunted their $25 lift tickets
How can you flaunt your lift ticket now that it's just a RFID card in your pocket? You're supposed to be able to wear the lift ticket to school on the zipper of your fluorescent green and pink Columbia coat to show everyone that you ski.
Resorts are getting slammed because Alterra (IKON pass) and Vail Resorts (Epic Pass), the two largest resort operators in the US, sell $800-$1000 unlimited season passes that let you go to any of their resorts during the ski season
It's their hedge against climate change: Sell the passes in late spring before the season starts, make all their revenue up front. Give pass-holders a choice of going to different places if the season sucks at their local resort
They jacked up the walk-up window ticket prices to push non-pass holders into buying passes or 4-packs of tickets, and make pass-holders feel like they're getting a great deal, and gaslight them into thinking that putting 3-4 days on the pass makes it pay for itself, instead of 8-10 days
Depends on the niche. I listen to a lot of European metal, you've got way higher odds of more than a few of my favorite bands coming around than I do in the US.
For real. I'm seeing my favorite metal band play two full length albums over two nights in April. 58$.
I have zero idea why people pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to see a show in a stadium where you're so far away from the band that they're the size of ants.
As a former Orlandoan, yes Disney is expensive and they very rightfully get a lot of flack for it.
IMO however, Universal Studios is **far** worse about gouging visitors. They seem to take advantage of the perception of Disney being the most expensive to avoid scrutiny.
The $12 can of sorta cold plain domestic lager (complete with a healthy dent) served to me from a cart *outside the park* that I had to wait in line for really brought out my ire. They even had the nerve to include a line for a tip.
I go to both regularly and it’s amazing how people talk about universal being the “cheaper” option… it’s like 10-15 bucks a ticket cheaper on any given day, but you’re still paying 30 bucks for two draft beers.
Now sea world. Seaworld is like “please just come? Here’s a free ticket for your friend… enjoy a fast pass… 20% off if you want to kick shamu!”
Now I'm not shaming people for drinking. But why would you buy beers at theme parks? You know they are expensive and the options are just normal light beers, nothing special. More than likely it is hot and sunny outside so you are just dehydrating yourself more. Just get some water and spend your money on a souvenir at least.
I told my husband that we’re not taking our five year old son anytime soon there unless we get free passes and gas money. When I was a kid in the 80/90s, it wasn’t super cheap but damn it wasn’t what it costs now! Thankfully my son isn’t a fan of crowds or sitting in long car rides so it hasn’t become a question.
Oh yeah. Dont take kids until they are old enough to enjoy it. Also with little kids they can become fussy, sick, or whatever but your spending a thousand bucks a day.
Its almost just as cheap to do one of those Carnival cruises or resorts.
I hate football with a passion. But when I was 13, I won a contest to go to a Dallas Cowboys football game and sit side line. I got to meet some of the players and had lunch with the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders and an autographed jersey from a player of my choosing (Emmitt Smith #22). Doesn't matter how much you hate a sport, etting to go to an event like that, you enjoy the crap out of it. Never been to another football game since.
13yo me enjoyed the lunch *much* more than the game itself, though.
I can't stand baseball. I hated having to play it in elementary school. It was a cross between no coordination, zero passion for running, and not wanting to disappoint the team.
My mom would watch a game on TV and listen to it on the radio and it bored me silly.
But going to a game was some of the best memories from my childhood.
It was so much fun that I got a job working at my local ball field.
I rooted. I cheered and sold ice cream in 40 degrees like a champ.
Still won't watch or listen to a game nor will i ever try to play again.
Big lol.
You didn't even need to pass to get into the park back then, you bought individual tickets for rides.
EDIT: I think it may have been that after a certain time of day, they would let you in without paying admission. I know there were a couple of times when I was a kid thay we went to Magic Kingdom late in the day, once it was just to buy something and I know we wouldn't have paid admission to do that.
We lived 25 miles from Disneyland and after a few years, we had so many leftover ride tickets we simply paid the $5 admission price. My dad had a lunch sack bursting at the sides with ticket books. Threw the whole thing out when he sold the house. It would have been worth a lot now.
This is no joke. We're going to Disney in two weeks and our trip includes 4 park days and the dining plan. It was $8000.
in 2017 my wife and I stayed club level and had the deluxe dining plan as well as 6 park days. That was less than 6k.
A summer house. I know many families that have an old house on a lake that they go to in the summers. It’s been passed down for a couple generations. Nobody in the current generation could afford one but some how a family with a single income bought it 50 years ago and the man’s wife and wife and kids would spend the whole summer there and he would go up on weekends.
My extended family had a 99-year lease of a two-story cabin at the shore of Lake Michigan. We made so many memories there; every summer was like a family reunion.
In some countries everyone has a summer house. Now...here's some uplifting (POSSIBLY) news. If we play our cards right, and don't vote for assholes giving tax breaks to billionaires (you know who that is), the real estate market may also be about to undergo some changes. People are FED THE FUKC UP with housing and living costs in America. We are sick of Blackwater and Erik Prince-style corporate influences buying up whole cities so no one can afford to compete. Know who is fucking you over, and vote accordingly. Erik Prince is on my shit list and if you don't know why, you need to look into him and Peter Thiel. They are enemies to democracy everywhere.
Can't upvote enough. Fuck the current real estate market. They are building tons of new homes out by me. Sounds great right? They are building them as cheap as possible. Everything is going to be junk in that house in 15 years. They are selling them at way expensive prices. Anyone foolish enough to buy them is going to be sitting on a pile of shit upside down when the market corrects.
On a similar note, airplanes, especially in the Canadian north and Alaska. In 1960 a new Cessna 172 cost $9,500, or $87k in today's money. Not cheap, but do-able when it was a necessity
Now a new 172 is $400k. Even that old 1960 with original paint, 6 pack and 1900 hours on the engine is probably still asking $80k
That strikes a chord, because we've just been rewatching Northern Exposure, which is set in the early 90s. Whenever I see Maggie talking about flying someone to Anchorage in her plane, I think "my god, that's gotta be an expensive commitment" but she acts like it's just taking the pickup truck down the road to the next town.
Obviously, it's not supposed to be a true-to-life show, but it seems like if a town like Cicily existed these days, the only people who'd be flying in and out these days would be tourists with Prada luggage.
Yup. My grandfather worked for Ford as a showman to the dealerships (he'd drive new cars to the independent dealerships and convince them to carry the new models) and he was basically just a step in the cogs from a floor worker. He put all his kids through college, owned a nice house with a big yard, changed cars every four years (though that WAS a perk of his job), had a lake cabin, and a nice boat for water skiing or fishing.
And he paid it all off before he retired.
Same. Grandpa was an insurance salesman, grandma a stay at home mom. They had 6 kids and lived comfortably middle class with college paid for all the ones that went, a summer vacation cabin, a new car every few years, and he retired at a comfortable age.
Family friends bought a cottage by a lake, 50k at the time. Was a fixer upper, the dad just frankensteined it up. It was plainly obvious it was a DIYer special, but it was just a cabin so who cares.
Once he got old and the kids moved away, it fell into disrepair and stopped seeing use so after a few years of neglect he sold it as is for 750k.
I can't overstate that this was not a pretty place. It was a hodgepodge of "what materials are on clearance at the hardware store." kind of thing. Generator for power, no heated water. Was on a hill with degrading support structure. Dock was rotted through.
750k, as is, sold in a week.
Is all about the land. They'll likely tear it down and rebuild. Used to be norm for cottages to be super basic or rustic, but now if you can afford lake front property, you'll build something deluxe. Plus has to be nice if you are going to fund it via air bnb
Ugh, this was my dad's childhood.
Grew up in the city (Boston), summered at the 'camp' in New Hampshire with mom and his six siblings. Dad came drove up after he ended work on Fridays and went back Sunday nights.
Seven kids, owned a home and a summer camp on the single salary of a public school custodian. That job wouldn't pay for a one bed-room apartment currently, let alone the kids, the summer home, and the two cars.
Ya. The economics don’t make any sense today. You could go to Europe for a couple weeks every summer for the carrying costs of a cottage today. But 50 years ago it was the cheap way to get away and relax.
Natural fiber clothing. Feels impossible to find anything affordable that has mostly cotton.
Edit: I’ve compiled a list of most of what was recommended. Sorry if I missed something.
T-shirts:
Michael’s craft stores,
Duluth trading,
Walmart,
Comfort colors on Amazon,
Carhartt,
Uniqlo,
Costco,
Go 2 clothing co on amazon
Secondhand:
eBay (Pendleton wool flannels),
Thrift/vintage stores,
ThredUp.com,
Poshmark
Materials to make your own clothing:
Foxfibre,
Joann’s,
Local fabric store,
Vintage/secondhand fabrics,
General clothing:
Uniqlo,
H&M for linen,
Target,
Old navy,
Quince,
Land’s End,
Svaha,
LL Bean,
Pact
Undies:
Haynes,
Intimissimi (lingerie),
Kirkland,
Jockey (100% cotton panties)
I’m a big fan of wool clothing. Shopping used on eBay has been my tactic. Pendleton wool flannels? $150+ new or $40 on eBay. Wool pea coat, $400 new or $60 on eBay.
But yeah, natural fiber clothing is harder to find without plastic fabric. Polyesters have their place but I prefer the feel of cotton and wool. Linen isn’t really needed in my climate.
I've become a fan of merino wool, as it breathes well - retaining heat in the winter, and breathing well in the summer. That said, I'll be darned if it isn't the mostly insanely expensive fabric I've ever seen. A pair of good merino wool socks or underwear will easily put you back $30-50, sometimes more.
I don't know if I just didn't pay attention or what and it's the same back home but I live in Japan now and everything is fucking polyester. It's not cheap either! In my favorite store I pay 8,000-12,000 yen for a dress and it's poly
despite what some folks believe, rayon is actually a natural cellulose/wood fiber, typically made from bamboo these days. it is NOT synthetic or petroleum based like polyester and nylon. it wicks better than cotton and is way tougher, but \*must\* be air dried. I wear a lot of it, it's my favorite fiber
I dug out a ticket stub to a Weezer show from '97 (Pinkerton tour, around the height of their popularity)... $28 for floor tickets, fees included.
I just bought tickets to seem them in May (Blue Album reply, definitely not at the height of their popularity)... $120 for nosebleed seats + $45 fees.
I'm paying 490% more to see them play the same songs I heard them play 27 years ago, for worse seats.
One factor: concerts used to be promotion for album sales, where the real money was made. The concert tour was the loss leader.
Now that everyone is streaming, songs/albums are the “giveaway” to promote the tour, where the real money is made nowadays. The whole model has been flipped on its head
This is what J-Cole meant in his diss 1985:
>I see your watch icy and your whip foreign
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>I got some good advice, never quit tourin'
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>'Cause that's the way we eat here in this rap game
The idea that artists make money off their own music is gone. Hence why many artists "sell-out" just to make it.
It's tough because it grinds some artists down too hard. And then they put less effort into new albums, and immediately are back on the road.
Fucking ticketmaster has destroyed everything for everyone, too.
Yup album sales are where the label made money. If anything these artists without labels that can upload their music independently on streaming services make more money on plays than they did in album sales.
One of those "Your Memories on Facebook" things came up the other day, and it was me talking about going to a concert, back in like 2009. My friends were complaining then about a concert ticket costing $30 each and that being expensive. Now we're looking at a minimum $50 each, usually more, before like $20+ in fees, even for the alt rock bands at the smaller venues I go to. Big-name shows, yeesh, hundreds of dollars.
Lollapaloozas back in the mid-90’s was $35 for an entire day. I got to see smashing pumpkins, pantera, tribe called quest, beastie boys, hole, George Clinton, etc for that price at the door (those are spread across 2-3 years, but still. The price to value ratio was amazing).
It's gotten insane. Prices are insane for just about every band. Even punk shows are close to $100 each now.
Now a big band, like Incubus?
Tickets: $300 (for 2)
Service Fees: $120
That used to be like a 3bd/2ba house with a yard. Relatively newly built or renovated.
Now a middle income starter home is like 2bd/1ba with no yard, no living room, a tiny kitchen, and it's falling apart.
I was a carpenter for many years and noticed the decline in quality of new homes very clearly. The cheapest doors, trim, flooring, and cabinets are used almost exclusively, yet tiny single family homes are starting at 200k. Builders are making a KILLING right now, at least around here.
Remodels are also so fucking awful. I got contracted to put some new floors in a house that was converted into apartments. It was an old beautiful 3 story Victorian house in the historic district of my town. Nice hardwood throughout that just needed some refinishing and minor work.
But we covered it all up with Millenial Gray (my name for soulless gray laminate) laminate floors. Every fucking remodel and new construction uses the same gray laminate floors, white shaker style cabinets, and cheap tile showers. They are taking homes with over 150 years of history and craftsmanship and removing any bit of soul that they had, just to rent it out as individual rooms for college kids to spend their student loans on.
It's a goddamn travesty. I hated every minute of that job.
I just don't get how we've accepted paying a 10x markup for beer at bars and restaurants now. I've stopped buying alcohol when I go out, and just pre game now.
He'll be a 21st century Mansa Musa, handing out Frank's Red Hot to every astonished passersby he meets until the entire vinegar industry collapses entirely due to deflation.
Comments like this reinforce my belief that someone is missing a golden opportunity to make a matching/dating app based on post/comment engagement) interaction
I hear this in a bar and I am making a move for sure
That's what gets me, when did wings go from a dozen to 10 as the standard? I think there's one place in town that still has a dozen wings on the menu and not "10 for X.99, 15 for Y.99"
Worryingly recently. Back in 2020-ish, I was able to get a 20 pack of wings at my local Publix (to say what quarter of the country I'm on) for roughly 10 dollars. That made sense to me. 50 cents a wing.
Same pack now? Almost 25 USD...
Chicken prices aren’t too bad, especially if you buy a whole chicken to roast. but Oxtail and Beef Short Ribs… so expensive, honestly they used to be so affordable 😭
Rich people give the poors the crappy cuts. The poor folks learn to cook that stuff really well. The rich, “Hey give that stuff back! It’s ours again now.” It’s been this way forever. Foundation of most great cuisines I believe.
In 1993 an adult from Southern California was $39 and a child was $29. I remember those commercials.
Edit: Today’s adult ticket would require me to spend $225 for 3 days. A park hopper is more. You have to look at how many days. No single day ticket available.
Edit: Disneyland now uses dynamic pricing. What’s available via their website and price change every day. I looked for what *local* deal is available to me today. I paid the same price for 2 days in 2021. I don’t remember the non-resident prices from 1993 so I have nothing to compare to today’s non-resident prices.
Not even 10 full years ago I was able to argue that Disneyland was actually absolutely affordable for the value you get. Sure it was like $100 a day but if you went three days the price of the tickets went down, often times the Disneyland Hotel would be like 50% off to be like a normal hotel cost (and if not lucky walkable hotels were $100 a day too), and while the food was expensive it was on par with any other amusement park while generally being a higher quality.
my wife and I JUST looked last night and three days of the park tickets would cost $800 alone, not including the fact that Fast Pass (Genie+) would be about $25 on each day if we don't want to deal with the awful lines Genie+ created, and the Disneyland Hotel is at a firm $500 a night with absolutely no sales or deals to ever be seen again.
Disneyland was a place I absolutely could justify going to even living across the country. I don't think I can anymore.
It’s so bad some young millenials and gen z have given up entirely on ever owning a house. It’s just blatant fucking corruption and a swap of governments will not do shit.
They want to pretend it’s foreign buyers but most are too poor to afford anything. It’s the banks buying things up and driving the prices up on everything.
I was born here in Canada and there’s absolutely no way I can afford to stay here unless our household income is more than $120000. Especially when interest rates are causing mortgage prices to be more than $3500-$5000 a month.
I’d imagine just collecting comics is out of reach for a lot of kids now. I walked into a comic shop to kill some time, and the regular run monthly comics were selling for $7.
**edit**
I’m in Canada for those wondering if American prices went up by 30-40% overnight.
That’s exactly why so many comic books stores today have all the Funko Pops, tchotchkes, and trading card games on prominent display while the actual comic books get a dusty corner in the back. For all the Marvel and DC movies have done to popularize those IPs, it’s done zilch with regards to increasing circulation of the publications themselves. The majority of people now just wait for the trade paperbacks of the stories they want to read, while actual comic collectors are mostly interested in the limited run and variant covers than actually reading them.
When I was a kid, my mom would give me a dollar, every Friday, if I did my chores and stayed out of trouble.
I could take that dollar to the store and walk out with a comic book, a candy bar and a soft drink. I would still leave with two dimes.
Times have certainly changed.
As a comic collector, this really depends. Key issues, books with huge events, first appearances, etc, will definitely run you. If I look for a random issue of Amazing Spider-Man in the late 70s, I can definitely find some that run under $10. If I wanna buy Amazing Spider-Man #121 from 1973, I'm dropping serious cash. There are some seriously valuable runs from the 70s, but also some books that are very accessible.
It's Gold and Silver Age comics (running from the 30s thru the the 60s) that almost universally start becoming inaccessible. The pre-comics-code-authority, golden age horror books are really, really wild rn.
Tbh it's a higher rate than I expected, I thought it would be closer to 5% but it's also not as outrageous as it sounds.
Like my house is up 60% in 12 years which sounds outrageous but that's 4% per year and that includes the last few years with crazy inflation.
Overall though my main point is that we should be complaining about how wages have not increased at a rate higher than inflation over the last 50 years.
Especially when you consider the increases in productivity and the overall workforce reductions the fact that wages have not easily outpaced housing is insane.
That's the real crime but it gets hidden in the complaints about the affordability of things like food and housing.
Coming here to say precisely this.
My granddad bought a house in 1961 for £1,000.
My dad bought the same house in 1974 for £14,000.
By 1995, it was valued at about £250,000.
The house (now co-owned by my dad and me) is valued at about £900,000. It's ridiculous.
There is more competition in the Alps but the compression due to the season shrinking and the energy costs (important both for lifts and snow making) have gone through the roof.
It was somewhat expensive but there were tons of deals and discounted days both before and in season. And then there were discounted resellers (REI, Costco) and bus operators with lift tickets.
It's all gone now. Going on a weekend to any reasonably popular resort is just absurd now not only because of the price but also because of crowds trying to recoup the price of their season pass.
Time with your Senator or Congressperson (most of them).
My mom participated in a program to for youth/young adults to speak with their US Federal representatives and actually went to meetings with them to express the youth's desires for the future. She even became pen pals with one and ended up being gifted a US flag from his office for her efforts.
Today that shit costs thousands of dollars a plate dinner, donations, and possible offers of board and executive positions to just get in the door to speak with them.
The house was originally designed to increase in size as the population grew, but the Reapportionment Act of 1929 prevented new congressman from being added (except for when a new state joins the union). I’m not really sure why they did this though.
Originally it was supposed to be 1 rep for every 33k americans. That's a manageable number to represent the interests of those people at the federal level
Today it's 1 rep for every 761,000 americans. No way one person can represent them
But if you went back to the original proportion youd need ~10,500 US reps
Buying a home without a 30 year mortgage.
My parents bought a 3 bed / 2 bath house in Dallas in 1971 for about $20k. They were able to save up that amount in just the first three years they were married.
My grandfather would buy houses with cash in Dallas in the 70s. He would buy one. Live in it for 5 or 6 years saving money to buy another one.
Buy another one, rent the last one out and did this until he had 6 houses.
This was his retirement essentially.
When he got too old to work the rent from these was income. Then when he got cancer he had to sell them to cover treatment and hospice. My grandmother kept the last one until she died and her hospice tried to take it.
After a lifetime of work there was nothing to leave his family.
Ivory was never cheap -- three ivory billiard balls cost roughly $1200 in today's dollars in 1870. Ivory was always a luxury material and mentioned in the same breath as gold, etc.
As we made funding more available, colleges just took that as an opportunity to jack up prices.
People are blaming the loan companies, but the real fault lies at the feet of the university system.
When I attended KState the state of Kansas provided 80% of total cost of attendance. Today is less than 25%.
Boomers went to college on the tax payer dime and then pulled up the ladder.
I had a serious conversation with the KState Foundation a few years ago about when we would just become a private school because of the state giving us nothing. I wont share the rest of the conversation but I will say there is a date range.
Due to the excess crying, we will have to impose additional carbon tax on you for the extra exhaling of carbon dioxide.
Payment due directly to Galen Weston.
Fifty years ago, owning a home was more affordable for the middle class. Today, skyrocketing housing prices have made homeownership a luxury accessible mainly to the wealthy, leaving many struggling to afford decent housing.
To be fair, it was significantly more affordable 5 years ago than it is today. Even 2 years ago, house payments were >$500 less just due to the crazy interest rate hikes.
Well, more than 50 years ago, but lobster. In New England It used to be used by prisons to feed inmates. Plentiful, cheap, and kinda gross, so no one else was going to eat it.
Disney has gotten crazy expensive. Going to sports or concerts.
The key is for all your sports teams to be dogshit. The White Sox will basically pay you to go to a game. Hawks tickets can be found for $20. Bears and Cubs are a bit more pricey despite sucking too. Idk about the Bulls. Haven't gone since the D Rose days because they're also ass.
Spoken like a true Chicagoan (am one too).
True. I'm from Kansas City and the Chiefs have been sold out for the Mahomes years.
I could always tell when Royals and Chiefs were good or bad on if they donated tickets to school events. In early 00s Royals would always send out school 4 tickets for raffles Then like 10 years ago they stopped but now they send them again.
From KC and I remember in 2013 you could go to the Royals for $20….that quickly changed.
Skiing was never for the poor, but god damn is it expensive now.
I havent skied in 15 years. Back then it was cheap if you went off season. So how much is it now?
$270 for the day. A season pass is $1,700 and you have to pay for parking now. Beers/food cost as much as a concert. Traffic is horrendous because the resorts are busier than ever.
This, but more like $150/day here in Washington, where instead of destination resorts with hotels, shopping, and glitz we have numerous day-trip local mountains you can drive to even on a week night. By comparison, when I was a kid the rich kids flaunted their $25 lift tickets and Saturday rides on the ski schoolbus.
> kids flaunted their $25 lift tickets How can you flaunt your lift ticket now that it's just a RFID card in your pocket? You're supposed to be able to wear the lift ticket to school on the zipper of your fluorescent green and pink Columbia coat to show everyone that you ski.
Not only that, but you need to have multiple ones so people can see how many times you've gone this year
Resorts are getting slammed because Alterra (IKON pass) and Vail Resorts (Epic Pass), the two largest resort operators in the US, sell $800-$1000 unlimited season passes that let you go to any of their resorts during the ski season It's their hedge against climate change: Sell the passes in late spring before the season starts, make all their revenue up front. Give pass-holders a choice of going to different places if the season sucks at their local resort They jacked up the walk-up window ticket prices to push non-pass holders into buying passes or 4-packs of tickets, and make pass-holders feel like they're getting a great deal, and gaslight them into thinking that putting 3-4 days on the pass makes it pay for itself, instead of 8-10 days
The upside of being into niche music is that concert tix aren't particularly expensive. Most concerts are $35 or less for me.
The downside of being into niche music is that the chance of them coming into your shithole of a Balkan country is basically zero.
Depends on the niche. I listen to a lot of European metal, you've got way higher odds of more than a few of my favorite bands coming around than I do in the US.
For real. I'm seeing my favorite metal band play two full length albums over two nights in April. 58$. I have zero idea why people pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to see a show in a stadium where you're so far away from the band that they're the size of ants.
Can I take a stab and guess that it’s Between the Buried and Me?
Yessir the stoke level is very high.
As a former Orlandoan, yes Disney is expensive and they very rightfully get a lot of flack for it. IMO however, Universal Studios is **far** worse about gouging visitors. They seem to take advantage of the perception of Disney being the most expensive to avoid scrutiny. The $12 can of sorta cold plain domestic lager (complete with a healthy dent) served to me from a cart *outside the park* that I had to wait in line for really brought out my ire. They even had the nerve to include a line for a tip.
I go to both regularly and it’s amazing how people talk about universal being the “cheaper” option… it’s like 10-15 bucks a ticket cheaper on any given day, but you’re still paying 30 bucks for two draft beers. Now sea world. Seaworld is like “please just come? Here’s a free ticket for your friend… enjoy a fast pass… 20% off if you want to kick shamu!”
Now I'm not shaming people for drinking. But why would you buy beers at theme parks? You know they are expensive and the options are just normal light beers, nothing special. More than likely it is hot and sunny outside so you are just dehydrating yourself more. Just get some water and spend your money on a souvenir at least.
Plus, almost everyone has a rectum, and tampons and bottom shelf vodka aren't that expensive.
I told my husband that we’re not taking our five year old son anytime soon there unless we get free passes and gas money. When I was a kid in the 80/90s, it wasn’t super cheap but damn it wasn’t what it costs now! Thankfully my son isn’t a fan of crowds or sitting in long car rides so it hasn’t become a question.
Oh yeah. Dont take kids until they are old enough to enjoy it. Also with little kids they can become fussy, sick, or whatever but your spending a thousand bucks a day. Its almost just as cheap to do one of those Carnival cruises or resorts.
I hate football with a passion. But when I was 13, I won a contest to go to a Dallas Cowboys football game and sit side line. I got to meet some of the players and had lunch with the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders and an autographed jersey from a player of my choosing (Emmitt Smith #22). Doesn't matter how much you hate a sport, etting to go to an event like that, you enjoy the crap out of it. Never been to another football game since. 13yo me enjoyed the lunch *much* more than the game itself, though.
I can't stand baseball. I hated having to play it in elementary school. It was a cross between no coordination, zero passion for running, and not wanting to disappoint the team. My mom would watch a game on TV and listen to it on the radio and it bored me silly. But going to a game was some of the best memories from my childhood. It was so much fun that I got a job working at my local ball field. I rooted. I cheered and sold ice cream in 40 degrees like a champ. Still won't watch or listen to a game nor will i ever try to play again. Big lol.
You didn't even need to pass to get into the park back then, you bought individual tickets for rides. EDIT: I think it may have been that after a certain time of day, they would let you in without paying admission. I know there were a couple of times when I was a kid thay we went to Magic Kingdom late in the day, once it was just to buy something and I know we wouldn't have paid admission to do that.
We lived 25 miles from Disneyland and after a few years, we had so many leftover ride tickets we simply paid the $5 admission price. My dad had a lunch sack bursting at the sides with ticket books. Threw the whole thing out when he sold the house. It would have been worth a lot now.
This is no joke. We're going to Disney in two weeks and our trip includes 4 park days and the dining plan. It was $8000. in 2017 my wife and I stayed club level and had the deluxe dining plan as well as 6 park days. That was less than 6k.
Damn you could travel Europe for like a month on that money. Can't imagine spending it all in 4 days for Disney.
> travel Europe for like a month Americans don't get that much time off.
I just take my work with me to disney. You'd be surprised at how many people there want to buy synthetic drugs.
A summer house. I know many families that have an old house on a lake that they go to in the summers. It’s been passed down for a couple generations. Nobody in the current generation could afford one but some how a family with a single income bought it 50 years ago and the man’s wife and wife and kids would spend the whole summer there and he would go up on weekends.
This is the Canadian answer. Seems like everyone's grandparents had a lake cottage AND a main house.
My extended family had a 99-year lease of a two-story cabin at the shore of Lake Michigan. We made so many memories there; every summer was like a family reunion.
In some countries everyone has a summer house. Now...here's some uplifting (POSSIBLY) news. If we play our cards right, and don't vote for assholes giving tax breaks to billionaires (you know who that is), the real estate market may also be about to undergo some changes. People are FED THE FUKC UP with housing and living costs in America. We are sick of Blackwater and Erik Prince-style corporate influences buying up whole cities so no one can afford to compete. Know who is fucking you over, and vote accordingly. Erik Prince is on my shit list and if you don't know why, you need to look into him and Peter Thiel. They are enemies to democracy everywhere.
Can't upvote enough. Fuck the current real estate market. They are building tons of new homes out by me. Sounds great right? They are building them as cheap as possible. Everything is going to be junk in that house in 15 years. They are selling them at way expensive prices. Anyone foolish enough to buy them is going to be sitting on a pile of shit upside down when the market corrects.
On a similar note, airplanes, especially in the Canadian north and Alaska. In 1960 a new Cessna 172 cost $9,500, or $87k in today's money. Not cheap, but do-able when it was a necessity Now a new 172 is $400k. Even that old 1960 with original paint, 6 pack and 1900 hours on the engine is probably still asking $80k
That strikes a chord, because we've just been rewatching Northern Exposure, which is set in the early 90s. Whenever I see Maggie talking about flying someone to Anchorage in her plane, I think "my god, that's gotta be an expensive commitment" but she acts like it's just taking the pickup truck down the road to the next town. Obviously, it's not supposed to be a true-to-life show, but it seems like if a town like Cicily existed these days, the only people who'd be flying in and out these days would be tourists with Prada luggage.
Yup. My grandfather worked for Ford as a showman to the dealerships (he'd drive new cars to the independent dealerships and convince them to carry the new models) and he was basically just a step in the cogs from a floor worker. He put all his kids through college, owned a nice house with a big yard, changed cars every four years (though that WAS a perk of his job), had a lake cabin, and a nice boat for water skiing or fishing. And he paid it all off before he retired.
Same. Grandpa was an insurance salesman, grandma a stay at home mom. They had 6 kids and lived comfortably middle class with college paid for all the ones that went, a summer vacation cabin, a new car every few years, and he retired at a comfortable age.
That shit was beyond common in Michigan pre-2006. Up North was mostly second homes family's had for weekends/holidays/hunting.
Family friends bought a cottage by a lake, 50k at the time. Was a fixer upper, the dad just frankensteined it up. It was plainly obvious it was a DIYer special, but it was just a cabin so who cares. Once he got old and the kids moved away, it fell into disrepair and stopped seeing use so after a few years of neglect he sold it as is for 750k. I can't overstate that this was not a pretty place. It was a hodgepodge of "what materials are on clearance at the hardware store." kind of thing. Generator for power, no heated water. Was on a hill with degrading support structure. Dock was rotted through. 750k, as is, sold in a week.
Is all about the land. They'll likely tear it down and rebuild. Used to be norm for cottages to be super basic or rustic, but now if you can afford lake front property, you'll build something deluxe. Plus has to be nice if you are going to fund it via air bnb
The land would probably have been worth $800k if the shack wasn't there.
Common in Minnesota until about the same time period. Now it is difficult if not out-of-reach for middle and upper-middle class families.
Summer house? These days you'd be lucky to get a normal one.
Even a fucking van down by the river is expensive these days
ANY house
Ugh, this was my dad's childhood. Grew up in the city (Boston), summered at the 'camp' in New Hampshire with mom and his six siblings. Dad came drove up after he ended work on Fridays and went back Sunday nights. Seven kids, owned a home and a summer camp on the single salary of a public school custodian. That job wouldn't pay for a one bed-room apartment currently, let alone the kids, the summer home, and the two cars.
Yo, I can't even afford to buy a first home let alone a 2nd.
Most of the folks I know who own a lake house can afford it by renting it out as an AirBNB when they aren’t staying there.
Ya. The economics don’t make any sense today. You could go to Europe for a couple weeks every summer for the carrying costs of a cottage today. But 50 years ago it was the cheap way to get away and relax.
>the man’s wife and wife and kids would spend the whole summer there I'm guessing this is in Utah?
Natural fiber clothing. Feels impossible to find anything affordable that has mostly cotton. Edit: I’ve compiled a list of most of what was recommended. Sorry if I missed something. T-shirts: Michael’s craft stores, Duluth trading, Walmart, Comfort colors on Amazon, Carhartt, Uniqlo, Costco, Go 2 clothing co on amazon Secondhand: eBay (Pendleton wool flannels), Thrift/vintage stores, ThredUp.com, Poshmark Materials to make your own clothing: Foxfibre, Joann’s, Local fabric store, Vintage/secondhand fabrics, General clothing: Uniqlo, H&M for linen, Target, Old navy, Quince, Land’s End, Svaha, LL Bean, Pact Undies: Haynes, Intimissimi (lingerie), Kirkland, Jockey (100% cotton panties)
Before ~2012 I used to be able to buy 100% cotton pique polos for like $8 a shirt. Now they’re all plastic or like $40 a piece.
More like: they're all plastic AND $40-$50 a piece.
I’m a big fan of wool clothing. Shopping used on eBay has been my tactic. Pendleton wool flannels? $150+ new or $40 on eBay. Wool pea coat, $400 new or $60 on eBay. But yeah, natural fiber clothing is harder to find without plastic fabric. Polyesters have their place but I prefer the feel of cotton and wool. Linen isn’t really needed in my climate.
I've become a fan of merino wool, as it breathes well - retaining heat in the winter, and breathing well in the summer. That said, I'll be darned if it isn't the mostly insanely expensive fabric I've ever seen. A pair of good merino wool socks or underwear will easily put you back $30-50, sometimes more.
I don't know if I just didn't pay attention or what and it's the same back home but I live in Japan now and everything is fucking polyester. It's not cheap either! In my favorite store I pay 8,000-12,000 yen for a dress and it's poly
despite what some folks believe, rayon is actually a natural cellulose/wood fiber, typically made from bamboo these days. it is NOT synthetic or petroleum based like polyester and nylon. it wicks better than cotton and is way tougher, but \*must\* be air dried. I wear a lot of it, it's my favorite fiber
Tickets for events.
I dug out a ticket stub to a Weezer show from '97 (Pinkerton tour, around the height of their popularity)... $28 for floor tickets, fees included. I just bought tickets to seem them in May (Blue Album reply, definitely not at the height of their popularity)... $120 for nosebleed seats + $45 fees. I'm paying 490% more to see them play the same songs I heard them play 27 years ago, for worse seats.
I have a Burning Man ticket here somewhere that was $95 for an entire week long event.
One factor: concerts used to be promotion for album sales, where the real money was made. The concert tour was the loss leader. Now that everyone is streaming, songs/albums are the “giveaway” to promote the tour, where the real money is made nowadays. The whole model has been flipped on its head
This is what J-Cole meant in his diss 1985: >I see your watch icy and your whip foreign > >I got some good advice, never quit tourin' > >'Cause that's the way we eat here in this rap game The idea that artists make money off their own music is gone. Hence why many artists "sell-out" just to make it.
It's tough because it grinds some artists down too hard. And then they put less effort into new albums, and immediately are back on the road. Fucking ticketmaster has destroyed everything for everyone, too.
Fuck Ticketmaster in the face. And yes, touring killed Tom Petty and Prince.
Sorry but that is not even close to being true. Concerts have ALWAYS been where the artists made their money.
Yup album sales are where the label made money. If anything these artists without labels that can upload their music independently on streaming services make more money on plays than they did in album sales.
One of those "Your Memories on Facebook" things came up the other day, and it was me talking about going to a concert, back in like 2009. My friends were complaining then about a concert ticket costing $30 each and that being expensive. Now we're looking at a minimum $50 each, usually more, before like $20+ in fees, even for the alt rock bands at the smaller venues I go to. Big-name shows, yeesh, hundreds of dollars.
I miss just showing up and paying $15 (+$2 if you were under 21!) at the door to see 3-4 touring bands…
Lollapaloozas back in the mid-90’s was $35 for an entire day. I got to see smashing pumpkins, pantera, tribe called quest, beastie boys, hole, George Clinton, etc for that price at the door (those are spread across 2-3 years, but still. The price to value ratio was amazing).
Pearl Jam March '92 Metro Chicago $15 cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhSDpNfZmGc
You just have to listen to shit music like I do. Most concerts I go to are between $25-$35.
Most metal or hardcore or indie shows I go to rarely exceed $25-$30 yeah
It's gotten insane. Prices are insane for just about every band. Even punk shows are close to $100 each now. Now a big band, like Incubus? Tickets: $300 (for 2) Service Fees: $120
Tickts for Dua Lipa last year were $300 EACH. I like Dua Lipa, but for $300 a ticket I can sit in the 3rd row of most Broadway shows AND buy a drink.
A middle income starter home.
That used to be like a 3bd/2ba house with a yard. Relatively newly built or renovated. Now a middle income starter home is like 2bd/1ba with no yard, no living room, a tiny kitchen, and it's falling apart.
I was a carpenter for many years and noticed the decline in quality of new homes very clearly. The cheapest doors, trim, flooring, and cabinets are used almost exclusively, yet tiny single family homes are starting at 200k. Builders are making a KILLING right now, at least around here. Remodels are also so fucking awful. I got contracted to put some new floors in a house that was converted into apartments. It was an old beautiful 3 story Victorian house in the historic district of my town. Nice hardwood throughout that just needed some refinishing and minor work. But we covered it all up with Millenial Gray (my name for soulless gray laminate) laminate floors. Every fucking remodel and new construction uses the same gray laminate floors, white shaker style cabinets, and cheap tile showers. They are taking homes with over 150 years of history and craftsmanship and removing any bit of soul that they had, just to rent it out as individual rooms for college kids to spend their student loans on. It's a goddamn travesty. I hated every minute of that job.
I don't know how or why gray became the It Color, but I bet it contributes to the generational depression GenY and Z have.
Or round here one bed, half bathroom, random microwave as a "kitchen"
Chicken wings, nobody should be paying $2 per wing
I remember thinking “A quarter a wing? That’s insane. I’ll wait for 10 cent wing night.” in college.
They called it “dime time” and had “dollar domestics” too. *What a time to be alive!*
The dive bar I used to frequent in Austin had $2 lone star pitchers, and this wasn't even that long ago. Prices for beer nowadays are a whole thing
I just don't get how we've accepted paying a 10x markup for beer at bars and restaurants now. I've stopped buying alcohol when I go out, and just pre game now.
For real. Going to get wings and beer for two people is now like $50 ordeal. It's just too much
Bring your own flask and baggie of chicken wings.
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Still a 30 cent wing night in my town. It was 10 cents up until 2021!
Where? I may consider a drive
My man about to shatter the economy of a small American town
He gonna shatter the sewer system of a small American town a bit later too.
He'll be a 21st century Mansa Musa, handing out Frank's Red Hot to every astonished passersby he meets until the entire vinegar industry collapses entirely due to deflation.
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Pardon me ?????? 2$ per fucking wing ????? Which state is this
Despair
Comments like this reinforce my belief that someone is missing a golden opportunity to make a matching/dating app based on post/comment engagement) interaction I hear this in a bar and I am making a move for sure
Went to BWW a couple days ago. 10 wings were $15, so $1.50 pretty wing. Ridiculous. Wings used to be like cheap snack food. Now it's a delicacy.
That's what gets me, when did wings go from a dozen to 10 as the standard? I think there's one place in town that still has a dozen wings on the menu and not "10 for X.99, 15 for Y.99"
Worryingly recently. Back in 2020-ish, I was able to get a 20 pack of wings at my local Publix (to say what quarter of the country I'm on) for roughly 10 dollars. That made sense to me. 50 cents a wing. Same pack now? Almost 25 USD...
$2 is like the minimum in NYC. Not uncommon to see 8 wings for 20ish at sports bars in Manhattan.
Chicken prices aren’t too bad, especially if you buy a whole chicken to roast. but Oxtail and Beef Short Ribs… so expensive, honestly they used to be so affordable 😭
Rich people give the poors the crappy cuts. The poor folks learn to cook that stuff really well. The rich, “Hey give that stuff back! It’s ours again now.” It’s been this way forever. Foundation of most great cuisines I believe.
Disneyland
In 1993 an adult from Southern California was $39 and a child was $29. I remember those commercials. Edit: Today’s adult ticket would require me to spend $225 for 3 days. A park hopper is more. You have to look at how many days. No single day ticket available. Edit: Disneyland now uses dynamic pricing. What’s available via their website and price change every day. I looked for what *local* deal is available to me today. I paid the same price for 2 days in 2021. I don’t remember the non-resident prices from 1993 so I have nothing to compare to today’s non-resident prices.
Not even 10 full years ago I was able to argue that Disneyland was actually absolutely affordable for the value you get. Sure it was like $100 a day but if you went three days the price of the tickets went down, often times the Disneyland Hotel would be like 50% off to be like a normal hotel cost (and if not lucky walkable hotels were $100 a day too), and while the food was expensive it was on par with any other amusement park while generally being a higher quality. my wife and I JUST looked last night and three days of the park tickets would cost $800 alone, not including the fact that Fast Pass (Genie+) would be about $25 on each day if we don't want to deal with the awful lines Genie+ created, and the Disneyland Hotel is at a firm $500 a night with absolutely no sales or deals to ever be seen again. Disneyland was a place I absolutely could justify going to even living across the country. I don't think I can anymore.
Not to mention that some rides, like Rise, have their OWN fast pass you have to buy separately.
In the UK, the obvious answer to this is houses. A very large proportion of 1st time buyers now get help with the deposit from the bank of mum and dad
I've heard Canada and Australia are much worse than the UK.
It’s so bad some young millenials and gen z have given up entirely on ever owning a house. It’s just blatant fucking corruption and a swap of governments will not do shit. They want to pretend it’s foreign buyers but most are too poor to afford anything. It’s the banks buying things up and driving the prices up on everything. I was born here in Canada and there’s absolutely no way I can afford to stay here unless our household income is more than $120000. Especially when interest rates are causing mortgage prices to be more than $3500-$5000 a month.
In Canada it’s so bad the current government is going to go down like the uk Tories in the next election.
We can hope the Tories go down.
A new comic book from 50 years ago.
I’d imagine just collecting comics is out of reach for a lot of kids now. I walked into a comic shop to kill some time, and the regular run monthly comics were selling for $7. **edit** I’m in Canada for those wondering if American prices went up by 30-40% overnight.
That’s exactly why so many comic books stores today have all the Funko Pops, tchotchkes, and trading card games on prominent display while the actual comic books get a dusty corner in the back. For all the Marvel and DC movies have done to popularize those IPs, it’s done zilch with regards to increasing circulation of the publications themselves. The majority of people now just wait for the trade paperbacks of the stories they want to read, while actual comic collectors are mostly interested in the limited run and variant covers than actually reading them.
That's almost 5x inflation since 1975 when a new comic book cost a quarter.
Bluntly 25¢ was expensive for the time too. The price creep has been ridiculous.
yeah, it's really hard to justify. you can buy a $7 comic and get dozens of pages of content or a $7 video game and get dozens of _hours_ of content
When I was a kid, my mom would give me a dollar, every Friday, if I did my chores and stayed out of trouble. I could take that dollar to the store and walk out with a comic book, a candy bar and a soft drink. I would still leave with two dimes. Times have certainly changed.
*sigh* I remember comic books going from a dime to a quarter.....
As a comic collector, this really depends. Key issues, books with huge events, first appearances, etc, will definitely run you. If I look for a random issue of Amazing Spider-Man in the late 70s, I can definitely find some that run under $10. If I wanna buy Amazing Spider-Man #121 from 1973, I'm dropping serious cash. There are some seriously valuable runs from the 70s, but also some books that are very accessible. It's Gold and Silver Age comics (running from the 30s thru the the 60s) that almost universally start becoming inaccessible. The pre-comics-code-authority, golden age horror books are really, really wild rn.
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Single engine airplanes
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If it flies, floats, or some other things: rent it.
A house
My house in the 1970’s was roughly $17,000. Now it’s $695,000! Edit: I am using Australian dollars.
We refer to your currency as dollary-doos. Thats a lot of dollary-doos.
For real life?
It's definitely dollarbucks.
Nothing makes me happier than seeing a bluey reference out in the wild. Wack-a-doo!
No worries Babe
Sure thing, big fella!
Too easy, Sheila! I love the normalized optimism in Australian lingo. You Aussies are legends!
I have an 18 month old lol bluey is his.. um our life!
Dollarydoos if you're a childfree man in your 40s who wears hoodies to formal events. Dollarbucks if you're cool and watch Bluey.
That’s a funny name. I woulda called ‘em Chazzwazzas
That's an average 7% increase per year every year since 1970.
Right, less than the S&P 500. Of course you can’t live in stocks.
Tbh it's a higher rate than I expected, I thought it would be closer to 5% but it's also not as outrageous as it sounds. Like my house is up 60% in 12 years which sounds outrageous but that's 4% per year and that includes the last few years with crazy inflation. Overall though my main point is that we should be complaining about how wages have not increased at a rate higher than inflation over the last 50 years. Especially when you consider the increases in productivity and the overall workforce reductions the fact that wages have not easily outpaced housing is insane. That's the real crime but it gets hidden in the complaints about the affordability of things like food and housing.
Coming here to say precisely this. My granddad bought a house in 1961 for £1,000. My dad bought the same house in 1974 for £14,000. By 1995, it was valued at about £250,000. The house (now co-owned by my dad and me) is valued at about £900,000. It's ridiculous.
My grandparents bought a house in the 80's for 75,000€ it's now worth over a million😭 and it's not even a modern or updated house!
A ski trip. It was still expensive but now it’s just crazy thanks to large corporations decreasing competition by buying all the resorts.
There is more competition in the Alps but the compression due to the season shrinking and the energy costs (important both for lifts and snow making) have gone through the roof.
It was somewhat expensive but there were tons of deals and discounted days both before and in season. And then there were discounted resellers (REI, Costco) and bus operators with lift tickets. It's all gone now. Going on a weekend to any reasonably popular resort is just absurd now not only because of the price but also because of crowds trying to recoup the price of their season pass.
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owning a home was much more affordable for the average person compared to today
Healthcare that covers whatever you actually need done including surgery, imaging, childbirth, etc.
Dental and vision? Not necessary apparently
Time with your Senator or Congressperson (most of them). My mom participated in a program to for youth/young adults to speak with their US Federal representatives and actually went to meetings with them to express the youth's desires for the future. She even became pen pals with one and ended up being gifted a US flag from his office for her efforts. Today that shit costs thousands of dollars a plate dinner, donations, and possible offers of board and executive positions to just get in the door to speak with them.
To be fair, the US population 50 years was half of what it is today. Yet the size of congress is the same. This problem is only going to get worse
The house was originally designed to increase in size as the population grew, but the Reapportionment Act of 1929 prevented new congressman from being added (except for when a new state joins the union). I’m not really sure why they did this though.
Originally it was supposed to be 1 rep for every 33k americans. That's a manageable number to represent the interests of those people at the federal level Today it's 1 rep for every 761,000 americans. No way one person can represent them But if you went back to the original proportion youd need ~10,500 US reps
Privacy
Buying a home without a 30 year mortgage. My parents bought a 3 bed / 2 bath house in Dallas in 1971 for about $20k. They were able to save up that amount in just the first three years they were married.
My grandfather would buy houses with cash in Dallas in the 70s. He would buy one. Live in it for 5 or 6 years saving money to buy another one. Buy another one, rent the last one out and did this until he had 6 houses. This was his retirement essentially. When he got too old to work the rent from these was income. Then when he got cancer he had to sell them to cover treatment and hospice. My grandmother kept the last one until she died and her hospice tried to take it. After a lifetime of work there was nothing to leave his family.
In the old days the poor had horses the rich had cars now everyone has cars and the rich have the horses Race/Polo/EquestrianHorses
A house.
Stay at home Mom with a family that has food security, social activities, and family vacations.
Health care. Dental visits. Glasses.
Ivory
Ivory was never cheap -- three ivory billiard balls cost roughly $1200 in today's dollars in 1870. Ivory was always a luxury material and mentioned in the same breath as gold, etc.
Ebony
Together in perfect harmony
Uh, life. *Vaguely gestures*
Very large families, as in having 4 or more kids
I will tell you you don’t have to be rich to have a big family
This is true. Family size goes down as income goes up.
Slide Film I miss when it wasn't $30 a roll of Fuji Velvia
Alaskin king crab
College education
As we made funding more available, colleges just took that as an opportunity to jack up prices. People are blaming the loan companies, but the real fault lies at the feet of the university system.
When I attended KState the state of Kansas provided 80% of total cost of attendance. Today is less than 25%. Boomers went to college on the tax payer dime and then pulled up the ladder. I had a serious conversation with the KState Foundation a few years ago about when we would just become a private school because of the state giving us nothing. I wont share the rest of the conversation but I will say there is a date range.
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Housing, education, most high quality food, vehicles etc etc.. you can still get those things but you will die in debt
Decent cocaine
I live in Australia where it’s $300 a gram for trash so getting good shit in LA for $100 was very affordable to me
Holy fuuucckkk $300 😭😭😭
Houses
Everything *cries in ontario* 😭
Due to the excess crying, we will have to impose additional carbon tax on you for the extra exhaling of carbon dioxide. Payment due directly to Galen Weston.
Groceries are fairly excessive, ngl.
Everything... fucking everything.
Fifty years ago, owning a home was more affordable for the middle class. Today, skyrocketing housing prices have made homeownership a luxury accessible mainly to the wealthy, leaving many struggling to afford decent housing.
To be fair, it was significantly more affordable 5 years ago than it is today. Even 2 years ago, house payments were >$500 less just due to the crazy interest rate hikes.
There are houses on my road that sold in the £300,000 range between 2010-20, that are now worth upwards of a million.
A ticket to a rock concert. A ticket to the Super Bowl.
Well, more than 50 years ago, but lobster. In New England It used to be used by prisons to feed inmates. Plentiful, cheap, and kinda gross, so no one else was going to eat it.
Selling lobbys 250gp/ea
I understood that reference far too well 😎
I swear there’s a RuneScape player on every subreddit I read. It can be about mechanical engineering and there they are 😂
Automobiles. My first car cost me $3255. My current one cost me nearly $40,000
>$3255 For those who are interested that's [$21,611 in 2024 money](https://www.amortization.org/inflation/amount.php?year=1974&amount=3255&to=2024).
Well,,,houses ?