Comments by "GTW" (@gtw4546) on "This House" channel.

  1. A single person being able to afford to live alone has always been unusual. What you call “pad-share” was the norm for singles in college and those just starting their working lives. Or you could rent a room with a family and get “kitchen & laundry privileges.” Buying a home is harder because we finance more of it (20% down payment was normal) and are paying for bigger houses. A home in the 1000-1200 square foot range is VERY hard to come by these days but that was the normal size for a family home before the developers discovered they could make more money building bigger homes and started building McMansions.
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  2. Honestly, our garaged cars today are better sheltered than people were 100 years ago.
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  3. Globalization is homogenizing us with the rest of the world.
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