In a message dated 1/20/00 11:52:02 AM, rjb4@worldnet.att.net writes:
<< Where could you buy a decent house for $10,000 in 1963 though? They were at
least triple that price in New York, and cars were about $3,000. >>
No offense, but New York prices for anything, especially real estate, can
hardly be described as "typical." However, my only touchstone in this
discussion is the 3-bedroom GI Bill house my dad bought in Rockville, MD, a
new suburb of DC, for $14K in 1953. Oh, yeah. Interest rate was around 2.7%.
Jay Donoghue
72 MGB
66 Mustang
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