I'm so old I Remember when:

[sourland]

I'm so old I remember when you could buy a 3 year old ranch home on 11.25 acres for $21,500. I also remember that I was making $4,800 base salary at that time.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember a relative buying 400 plus acres in Arkansas for about $30 an acre. It wasn't all cleared but was not in heavy hard to clear growth either. There were lots of cheap farms for sale back then listed in Strout Realty catalogs.

 

[Ponypoor]

You want to stop someone in thier tracks, use centigrade in a sentence


Noooooooo it's celcious or however its spelled

I am old enough to remember when we used Fahrenheit and the Imperial system (feet, inches)

Now it’s the metric system, Celsius, meters, kilograms…. This is the system that is usually used in scientific study, and engineering.

Currently it’s -4C (that’s 26F).

 

[No Coop No Problem]

I'm so old I remember when you could buy a 3 year old ranch home on 11.25 acres for $21,500. I also remember that I was making $4,800 base salary at that time.

0.2 acres of completely raw land here starts at $25,000. The economy has only ever gotten worse. Dramatically so

 

[Nomadicus]

0.2 acres of completely raw land here starts at $25,000. The economy has only ever gotten worse. Dramatically so

That's hardly enough land to pitch a tent on and have room for a coop and run.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

My DH#1 and I bought our starter home, 2.5 ac with a 2 BR MH in NM in the early 70's for $25,000. I now see ads for trucks for $50,000 to $70,000 and I just shake my head in disbelief.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

My DH#1 and I bought our starter home, 2.5 ac with a 2 BR MH in NM in the early 70's for $25,000. I now see ads for trucks for $50,000 to $70,000 and I just shake my head in disbelief.

There was room on that property for chickens, a cow, several horses, a large garden, and later, another large MH which we rented out, that made our property payment for us for many years.

 

[tripletfeb]

There was room on that property for chickens, a cow, several horses, a large garden, and later, another large MH which we rented out, that made our property payment for us for many years.

What's an MH?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

What's an MH?

Mobile home or modular home. In our case at that time, a single wide mobile.

 

[tripletfeb]

Mobile home or modular home. In our case at that time, a single wide mobile.

Got it. I'm so old, I remember when I needed people to translate for me