I keep thinking what it was like for my dad compared to what it is like for me.

My dad bought a 1973 dodge challenger when he was 16 for $3000 he worked for 2 summers to make that money and paid cash. When he was 23 he bought a house for himself and my mom, for 40,000 and was able to put 15,000 down, and pay off the rest while going to college, while paying for his own tuition for UC Davis.

Today for me, a car equivalent to his challenger (a base Mustang) 20,000 and a Challenger is 40,000. My house cost 162,000 and that is considered CHEAP. I'm having to rent out rooms to my friends to make the mortgage. And I'm paying my own way through community college because my dad says "I paid my own way"

Thats a MASSIVE amount of inflation, for just one generation.

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