Comment by rayiner

> In this case, 2 working adults, one white collar, used to be enough to rent an apartment and eat out/ have deliveries regularly, no?

That’s not true. I grew up in the 1990s, and my dad had a white collar job working for a government contractor. I remember that he made right around the median family household income in the early 1990s, which was at the time double the income for all households. (My mom didn’t work then.) Our neighbors were professionals, white collar federal government workers, etc. Our house was 1,100 square feet. We rarely got even pizza delivery. Maybe we went to Sizzler or Pizza Hut a few times a month. We had one car until 1998 (a Toyota Camry). My dad worked right outside of DC and took a bus to the train station, and then took the Metro to the office.