"Fly-by-Night CC" wrote in message
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Bob G. wrote:

Fricken scary ...what EVERYTHING costs now...

Here's a website calculator I get a kick out of plugging numbers into:
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/
It's a Fed Resv Bank calculator for what the dollar amount in some year
would equal in another year.

That $4700 Corvette would be just shy of $30,000 today. But then
consider how much more by way of amenities and safety the C-5 or C-6 has
over that '65.

Some things are pretty much as they should be with respect to inflation.
Other things like houses and cars don't translate as easily since
there're other factors that contribute to today's prices above the cost
of building a similar one today.
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Yes. Average size of post WWII house: under 1000 SF. Average size of Iraq
era house, about 2800 SF. Just one thing. Of course, those Levittown houses,
starting out just over 900 SF, IMS, are now larger and selling for something
more like $350,000 than their original under 5K prices.