>was able to support himself and a dog in a one bedroom house on a comic book store clerk's paycheck
Did the 90s really?
>was able to support himself and a dog in a one bedroom house on a comic book store clerk's paycheck
>was able to support himself and a dog in a one bedroom house on a comic book store clerk's paycheck
Did the 90s really?
O-town was built around conglom-o and is implied to be in a flyover state, far from prime land like california, since ralph had to travel far to work in hollywood
you can get a much larger house on a lower salary in undeveloped cities compared to somewhere like san francisco
Eh. These days even near a modest city you couldn't afford rent or a house on a store clerk's pay.
A house like Rocko's would be $150k-$300k because he's still in the city suburbs. Rent would be maybe $1,600 just for the room, utilities not included, and they ask you to earn three times that.
You need a wife, family, or roommates to help cover it all. Never mind that healthcare today is way up and Rocko's a doctor's visit from bankruptcy.
It's funny. O-Town's problems and corruption should have been so much bigger and made for huge conflict, but instead we got another story about Ralph and making cartoons.
Californian here, $1600 is a lot for just a room outside of SF/LA/ect. I'm in Merced and my 3 bedroom is $1200. But yea, actually purchasing something is absurd.
I might be remembering wrong and maybe $1,600 DID include utilities and all of that. I don't know, I just know rent, utilities, and car payments ate all my earnings every month and it all just kept going up faster than I got raises. Without roommates there'd be no way.
Oh yea, don't get me wrong, I am 100% living paycheck to paycheck.
Are you a comic artist on the side or something
Shit you lookin' for roommates bud? Going to Merced in the fall.
Sorry bro, already got 2 roommates.
Can confirm I also live in Cali and the big spots are L.A and Silicon Valley with SF as a signal booster of sorts.
The further out you go from those two locations the cheaper it is exempting other cities. I would likely move to the valley Modesto or someplace around there but I'm to fat to endure the heat compared to the expensive but cozy Northbay.
Yep, boomer here, back in the day you can live fine far away from Califonia or NYC
don't forget he went long stretches without food because he couldn't afford it unless there was a major sale.
His house is an absolute piece of shit though. It's constantly falling apart and all of his furniture is old and busted. Ironically enough, Filbert's trailer home always felt comfier to me.
I lived in a trailer after school and as long as you can deal with the methhead, constantly drunk rednecks, their screeching harpy wives, and swarms of unsupervised offspring, it's not too bad.
Filbert would be in trouble these days. At some point in the last few decades, trailer park and mobile home companies realized the people on their land have no where else to go and starting tightening the screws.
The one I know of doesn't maintain the land or fix anything but they keep jacking up rates. All the mobile homes are starting to collapse. I think the ground is sinking due to standing water and drainage issues. People can't afford to re-level the homes but rent goes up. The drainage issue doesn't get addressed.
It’s a cartoon
I hate the fact neither of my parents bought real estate in the 90s. The fricking house I grew up in was sold in 1996 for 223k, it's now valued at 1.4 million.
They couldn't have known the US would make its real estate market a hotbed for money laundering. Back in the 90's they still had rules preventing the abuses that make housing so expensive today.
While you are correct I grew up in Los Angeles, this was a house in a pretty good area (literally 10 minutes from the beach) 4bd2ba, there's no way that value on it goes anywhere but up. The kicker? 223k was what it sold for 5 years after it was built, in 91 it sold for 265k brand new!
Sorry your parents are such scumbags OP. I love my parents but my dad is terrible with money and is drowning in credit card debt.
I know the pain. My mother lost her 3 bedroom 2 bath house with a basement a huge backyard a couple of nice sheds and a deck that cost like 80 grand in the early 2000s or some shit her parents gave her the down payment. And my father has an even bigger house that is probably worth 5 million right now not kidding. He is a boomer and a psychopath and somehow got the house in the diverse. I am not on speaking terms with that piece of shit. And during the crash of 08, I could have bought a real nice house for super cheap prices if my loser of a mom had a job and could help me co-sign. And I could have bought a house a few years ago for under 100 grand but I listened to my moronic mother and didn't buy a fixer-upper. Even though she is an unemployed shithead who knows nothing about real estate. Sigh. I could have bought a shit box and sat on it and made a profit or just fix it up and have a place to live that I own.
>. The fricking house I grew up in was sold in 1996 for 223k, it's now valued at 1.4 million.
How big, how many rooms and bathrooms?
I'll post the redfin page idaf https://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angeles/8706-Wiley-Post-Ave-90045/home/6636086
Location, location, location. I remember it having a big backyard too which is rare in LA homes. But you see those crossroads? Those will take you anywhere in the South Bay and LA as a whole, that cross street Manchester is an express to the beach with no traffic.
>it's an "anon doesn't know the difference between fiction and real life" episode
Next thing you'll tell me is the Simpsons isn't an accurate depiction of lower middleclass life of the early 90s
Muh immersion
That's not really true, at one point it was absolutely normal outside of Cali or NYC to be able to afford a big house and support a family on a single working class salary, things have totally changed. I still remember. It's very different today.
As for the 90s? Probably the tail end of that kind of lifestyle being possible. The people making these cartoons gew up when it was totally normal that the father was only a high school graduate and had a big house and supported the entire family though.
There is no fricking way SpongeBob was able to pay for every one of his amenities on a fry cook's salary.
Pretty sure it's implied several times that his parents give him money
Didn't he also work a sex hotline?
>oh baby oh baby oh baby
Why was Mrs Bighead attracted to Rocko?
Her marriage to Ed was difficult and Rocko was both kind and available.
If I recall from that episode where she was trying to seduce him it wasn't so much about being attracted to Rocko, rather than not getting any attention from Mr Bighead and Rocko was a younger available guy next door. It's crazy that actually aired.
If only you knew how bad things really are.
Life just sucks more now bros
unless you're born rich
That's why i went into art, now i have a 0.0002% chance to get rich off money laundering rather than a 100% chance to wage until I'm 85
Was Rocko doing better than Homer?
>$19,000 salary
I guess it makes sense than the cost of living in Springfield would be low, but that's still ridiculous.
Even with inflation it's $45,402.49 in today money which is still ridiculous for a nukaler safetyger man
4k per month after tax is not bad.
For a nuclear safety inspector it's atrocious
Even one as lousy as Homer?
It's not like he's paid on commision, so yeah, but it's more indicative of how horrible a boss Mr. Burns is ontop of Homer being too dumb to realize he's not getting paid.
I mean the dude hires illegals and pays them in literal pennies.
The average salary for a safety manager is less than $60k so there's nothing really outlandish about it
This was back when people could afford things, including houses. I don't understand someone born after the year 2000 to understand.
Born 1987.
Yes. The 1990s was booming economy, and before the peak of the sub-prime mortgage loan bubble burst that lead to the economic collapse of the 2000s - along with the loss of the manufacturing sector to overseas outsourcing, that is.
Rent was not a super greedy thing like it is now. People living in their cars was rare. Smoking was lower cost. Medical bills weren't as bad, although they were bad.
The 90s economy was mostly a bubble, and the collapse of the soviet union pushed the dollar into the position as the unquestioned international reserve currency. Like $2 in thailand could get you a full ass lobster dinner.
I had an aunt and uncle with a suburban home about 15 minutes outside of Atlanta, 3 bed, 2 bath, for $120K. They sold it 4 years ago for $700K.
Wages relative to the cost of living were not nearly as bad as it is now. Wages should be $25 an hour to compare to 1990s liveability.
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