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Re:One-Third of Americans Making $250k Live Paycheck-to-Payc... by beiller on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @11:04AM (#31582860)
Maybe its a chicken egg type problem. The solution was that households became dual income. I think the drive for a household to become dual income was probably the HCOL and not vice-versa.
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Re:One-Third of Americans Making $250k Live Paycheck-to-Payc... by bumby on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:38PM (#31584444)
>I think the drive for a household to become dual income was probably the HCOL and not vice-versa.

I'm not sure that's correct. I don't have the statistics off hand, but I believe the average home prices were much smaller multiples of household income when most households had a single income.

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