Watching old shows from the 70s, 80s and 90s is hilarious because even the poorest motherfucker in town had a house. It might have been just one room or broken down, but they still had it. Sitcom families who were "barely scraping by" lived in small 1 story bungalows. Then in the late 90s into the 2000s the idea of the shitty studio apartment rental gets more common until even that seems ok by modern standards. There's a broken down 2 story house near me that just sold for $500,000. It has like 100 feet of backyard and is surrounded by other shitty houses on a dead end dirt road that they city doesn't maintain at all. Last year there was a water main break that caused a sinkhole in the middle of the road, and they city just fixed the pipe and left the hole. The people living there had to crowdfund to pay for the dirt to fill it back in and flatten the road. Half a million dollars for that fucking house. I can't even write a joke about that.
