Yeah for all of the talk about socialism and communism. We never used those words, just did it out of necessity. It’s not for everyone. Some cities now have laws limiting how many nonrelated people can live in a house. Mostly brought on by immigrants and xenophobia.

You forgot to mention the Dems got slaughtered in the following midterms. And folks wonder why the party is the way it is

I graduated in 1984 when unemployment was 10% and minimum wage was $3.35/hr. My friends and I all left the burbs for the inner city and we would live 5-7 of us in a house. Nonskilled jobs were more plentiful and there was public transportation. Sometimes we had a land line phone, never had cable. Plenty of parties and beer though. Don’t know if this helps anybody but it’s how we got by

One of my first jobs in 1984 would not give me more than 24 hours a week because they would be required to pay healthcare. This was a thing long before the ACA

Drive through older neighborhoods and look for yourself. Also you can look up real estate property info on most county websites in the US. They’ll tell you square feet and also the year built. Builders these days don’t build reasonably sized homes unfortunately. I wonder if cities don’t want them because it’ll attract lower income folks. As for multi generations in the same home, I recently had a subscription to Ancestry.com and could see all the people living in one house as was recorded in the census data. Families had more kids too.

Multi generations in a house was certainly a thing though it varies depending on what decade you’re talking about. The houses definitely were smaller as were the yards. Look at the new construction now, there are no modest sized homes being built then drive through an older neighborhood. There is simply no comparison. My aunts and uncles all shared bedrooms… Rarely did houses have more than one bathroom. Nobody had central air conditioning not homes, not schools. Plenty of teenagers have cars these days though they’re still in school. Nobody walks or rides bikes unless they’re electric. Most people are overweight and plenty of young folks are diabetic. Those factory jobs that everyone thinks were so great? They were often dangerous before OSHA and unhealthy before the EPA. My older neighbors in Cleveland told me about the soot from the nearby steel mills. BTW those jobs were plentiful until recently where I live. They’re miserable places to work still. They’ll make you work 6-7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day. My sister just got fired from one making $25 an hour, she lost a similar job year ago. Everyone is doing Adderall to cope, management looks the other way.

Comparing then to now is hard. I don’t doubt workers were compensated better when unions were stronger but it’s an apples to oranges thing. Off the top of my head: Multiple generations lived in a single house that was much smaller. Households shared a single car. Most had a single television set that picked up 6 channels. One phone per household. Calling a couple towns over was expensive. Family vacations were within driving distance. Photographs were expensive. Video nonexistent. Eating out was a rare treat

Hooked on phonics?

I just wouldn’t want to be someone’s pet

A live in girlfriend with a good job so I could stay home, grow weed and play video games. God i was stupid

The US borrows money by issuing US Treasury Bonds. The number one buyer of those bonds is the US government, mostly the Social Security Administration. We borrow from ourselves and pay ourselves back yet we’re told Social Security is insolvent. Yeah I don’t get it either

Lucky gal has Joaquin Phoenix for a mom!

Anytime I see media from India I assume it’s BS

Did anyone actually read the story?

Back in the 90’s before backyard chickens was a thing, I lived in the inner city in a neighborhood populated with lots of Puerto Ricans. Don’t know how long it was before I realized I heard roosters on the walk to the bus stop every morning. Now living in the burbs, my neighbors raise chickens, either they get tired of it after a year or their chickens get eaten by the foxes

I appreciate them. You are what you eat. That goes for what you put in your eyes and ears as much as your mouth

Clickbait?

So odd. The trim on the left has a notch cut in it to accommodate the light switch cover? Seems like it would have been easier to move the box on inch to the right or cut the plastic cover rather than the trim? Why not make better use of the space by accessing it from another wall? This looks like a novice handyman’s work. It would make me worry about what you can’t see.

I would i would find another job and forget to give Jenny my two weeks notice

It’s true! Little known fact, they also have their own catalytic converter