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sixsevenbert 🫶🏿:niggablushhearts: @kernow@clubcyberia.co (2026-08-01 09:48:16)
@sun @georgia @subnetter idk. that pathway used to provide a living wage and a stable if small life. I've met many retired and semiretired service workers who bought a house and had a small family off that wage in very upmarket areas.
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-01 11:50:47)
@kernow @georgia @subnetter I ran some numbers for it and even at the absolute peak of relative buying power of minimum wage (1968) it didn't reach national median home prices. in effect if you bought a house on only minimum wage income, it was only possible in certain areas and a particularly cheap house. This is of course improved situationally if you are a dual-income minimum wage earner household. this was also again at the absolute peak, if you go start going earlier, it becomes unaffordable again.

I am not denying your experience though you can find lots of people that did it but it was never true generally on a national scale it seems.