Friday Filler

Youngstown, Anyone stirred 'em up. (Incidentally, I will be reconfiguring the blog soon to allow for comments.)

South of Jefferson strong man Allen Lulu added the following: Using a site called "measuringworth.com", I have come to learn this: the median price of a home in 1967 which you have listed as $24000 is, in 2006 dollars equal to $140,000. Aside from urban centers, this does seem to jibe with the rest of the country.

the real difference comes in the money from 1915. that 3200 house would only buy a 64000 house today. The dollar has changed, significantly, apparently. And inflation had a LOT to do with it, post 60's.



24K, the Cadillac kid, a surprising and at times abradant critic of economic expansionism, opines: this here is one of them hidden costs of growth. You got more people, you need more shelter. They ain't making more land, and some materials get scarcer. Of course it starts with jobs. Places are cheap in Youngstown cause there ain't no jobs. Few that pay good anyhow.

Thanks 24K, remember when they brought the Avanti back to the Steel Valley and Youngstown? Maybe you should go with a trade in.