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		mixmastamyk 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis Yes, though in the eighties and somewhat to the nineties you could own a home with modest job.

FuriouslyAdrift 1 day ago [–]

That was the era before globalization hollowed out the middle class

mixmastamyk 1 day ago | [–]

Ok, though believe the major factor was a refusal to build enough new housing.

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