LT,

Back in those days you had one car a 1200 sf home with a small yard. If you had a boat it was a wooden row boat and the family vaction was to eastern wa. to go camping. As a kid I had two pairs of pants may 3 or 4 shirts and one pair of shoes. You took care of them because they had to last. We did not have a lot of toys we had to use our imaginations. A soda was a luxury and a cup of coffee for the folks was at home.

IMHO that does not sound like the avg. family today anywhere. It sounds like only the poor people that dropped out of school or made bad choices or just have below avg. desire or intelligence. Every one else as 10x the material possesions today vs. 40 years ago.