That’s part of why I said "So assuming everything’s equal, which it’s not but there are inequalities favoring both sides,".
I could list several details supporting claims that homes and incomes between now and then make them both more and less expensive than the dry numbers indicate. But for a variety of reasons, respectfully, I don’t think discussions between people with their minds made up, heals dug in and ignoring counter evidence accomplishes much.
Life’s short. Best regards.
I guess it all comes down to whether you find the modern lifestyle to be a higher quality of life than the one that previous generations of Americans lived. I don't. And as someone who would like to live a traditional type of life, with moral values, intact families, and kids, the institutional and cultural conditions are far harder today than they were when the WW2 generation passed the torch.
I suppose if I wanted to bugger men in highway restrooms, then I might consider today's conditions to be higher quality.