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					Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger  If it doesn’t account for housing then it’s completely useless. It’s by far the most expensive thing in any persons life. | 
	
 
People in this thread (and across the country) are complaining about the cost of all sorts of things besides housing. The OP has a $150k mortgage. 
Also, housing in 1982 was even less affordable than in it is today. 18 per cent mortgage rates will do that.