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topcat

topcat

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cannabineer said:
no meat (or other animal protein), dairy, eggs …
that cart is full of what food eats.

also, in 1980 $15K houses were 850sq ft shotgun shacks in suburban Little Rock.
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I was raised in a 850 sq. ft. house. Two bedrooms, family of 5. They were designed to be added to, but cheap enough for vets to buy a home. This is in the San Fernando Valley, when there were still orange ranches. I don't know what a shotgun shack is, but my house was home.
 
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cannabineer

cannabineer

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topcat said:
I was raised in a 850 sq. ft. house. Two bedrooms, family of 5. They were designed to be added to, but cheap enough for vets to buy a home. This is in the San Fernando Valley, when there were still orange ranches. I don't know what a shotgun shack is, but my house was home.
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Shotgun shacks were/are small one-level houses common in the post-bellum South. The front, interior and rear doors were in line, so if they were open “you could fire a shotgun at the house and not hit it”.

Also, median house price in US was $64k per appended table. So the other cheat not disclosed in the meme is that the house was bought in the 50s.

I’m not dissing small houses (much). Ex and I had two kids in a 950 sq ft house in S’vale that was built in ‘52, and the neighbors said it initially sold for $8500. We paid near 30x that in ‘90.

U.S. Housing Market Conditions, Fourth Quarter 2001: Historical Data, Table 8

www.huduser.gov
 
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topcat

topcat

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cannabineer said:
Shotgun shacks were/are small one-level houses common in the post-bellum South. The front, interior and rear doors were in line, so if they were open “you could fire a shotgun at the house and not hit it”.

Also, median house price in US was $64k per appended table. So the other cheat not disclosed in the meme is that the house was bought in the 50s.

I’m not dissing small houses (much). Ex and I had two kids in a 950 sq ft house in S’vale that was built in ‘52, and the neighbors said it initially sold for $8500. We paid near 30x that in ‘90.

U.S. Housing Market Conditions, Fourth Quarter 2001: Historical Data, Table 8

www.huduser.gov
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Well then, there were no shotgun shacks where I grew up in California. Yeah, things were different in 1954. Twenty year mortgages were the norm and my parents paid it off early. Thanks for the definition, I wouldn't otherwise look it up.
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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topcat said:
Well then, there were no shotgun shacks where I grew up in California. Yeah, things were different in 1954. Twenty year mortgages were the norm and my parents paid it off early. Thanks for the definition, I wouldn't otherwise look it up.
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There was no Mac Mansions or many mansions back then either, most were middle class with a smaller number of rich and poor on either end of the spectrum the maximum tax rate was 90% for the wealthy minus loopholes. The rich have been cleaning up since the 80's when the rules of the economic game were changed, and Reagan killed off the last of the new deal. It got so bad by the 90's that the democrats had to play along with Clinton, back when Jesus was every politician's best friend and they used to talk to Jesus personally everyday... Trump took care of Jesus in the GOP faster than he kicked Desantis to the curb, Donald is the anti-Jesus or antichrist if you prefer.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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topcat said:
Well then, there were no shotgun shacks where I grew up in California. Yeah, things were different in 1954. Twenty year mortgages were the norm and my parents paid it off early. Thanks for the definition, I wouldn't otherwise look it up.
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1954 has no relevance since the meme that kicked this off was about 1980.

I am surprised that you decided to focus on taking offense to a term that was endemic where I grew up, which is in US but far from California. Perhaps distressed property would have been more politically correct, and would likely be appropriate to a house that sold for $15k in ‘80 and was within the convenient radius to a supermarket.

It distracted from the real issue, which I see as the unrealistic premises (both in the implied menu and in the price of an average suburban house) buried in the meme.
 
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cannabineer

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Finshaggy sighting!
I mean, who else would try such a lame hustle?

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topcat

topcat

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God Dammit!


edit: Lawsuit coming. Hey, Ohio, bring out the National Guard you're famous for. Four dead in Ohio.

 
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