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So everyone with false teeth and dentures wants to kill themselves? Your opinion is way off base.

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phones just one that attached to the wall. No answering machine so if anyone called when I was out, too bad. Times were different, less $ spent on anything not essential. Houses were very expensive & Reagan helped the wealthy. Ketchup was a vege in school lunches.

Did you just say while Reagan was President?!?! Are you missing the point that while income has stayed stagnant from that time until now, the price of existing has steadily to astronomically increased. And it is just about to get worse when Elon fires all of those federal employees.

You just love to ignore data and give anecdotal evidence to ignore the current struggles. My parents had 3 kids, a mortgage, and zero student loans living off one income at the age of 30. I’m 30, with a masters degree and a FT job in my field and can barely afford rent.

You had it better!! All the data suggests this. Stop this BS when you were given every advantage like cheap education and decent wages. Even with your higher interest rates you are NOWHERE near the cost of a home today.

Thank you for a good laugh Nonetheless very true for a lot of people today

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That’s what she said

Yeah, this is accurate 🙌

sad ain’t it

Thank you the pain does vary, but for the most part I have coped with it at this point.

nerves in each 1 because we live under a cruel & relentless deity

You can use a stick for a toothbrush and still get them clean and strong. Dogs do it, and they have excellent bite force

There are so many abandon houses, why not give them to someone mandatory you must fix, live there so many years before you can sell??

And great if whatever job u are in allows u to live far from any city. But not everyone can work remote or owns own business or has farm. Or can afford to drive several miles to get to their place of work. Dawsonville ga has tons of pilots but they can afford to drive to hartsfield.

“Can’t rent” not can.

Out, we would have to spend all that we made. But maybe 50 miles away from Midtown Atlanta is considered Urban area.

Of course, let me buy a house 2 hours from the job center with non existing infra for kids and young families. It's only 4 hours commute per day and need to have 3 cars for the family. So cheap.

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Sadly, this takes me down a rabbit hole, so will attempt to be brief! 😁 This year we did not renew dental. Got tired of paying for something that covered NOTHING! The dentist even called me, saying, "We will NEVER take your insurance again!" Now, with NO insurance, paying significantly less! WTF

Now that’s funny!!

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My favorite is that according to research on home prices that the average combined income to buy a home is now around $188K The average income is between 45 and 55K. Do the math!

Only the rich can afford teeth

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Can't afford to own a dog either.

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They were in their 20's! In the 70's

Why did I laugh so hard at this? Tragically funny?

teeth are luxury bones

OMG. Too funny. Well, expect to lose far more body parts once Trump and Kennedy are in control of your future or lack thereof. I found yout teeth.

Haha! Sad, but true. Talk about human rights going "right into the trash can," more so if that is a "medical waste bin." What a dystopia we live in! Then they call us sci-fi/fantasy writers crazy!

I’m sorry, but the meme lol. It’s true, but it made me laugh out loud. 👀👀

My grandparents were 66 and 69 when they bought their house

Me rn

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According to UHC, and most other health insurance providers, teeth are optional. You will need to buy additional insurance to get them covered.

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wah

My adult sons' dental care through the ACE is $20/ month. Change your meme, please.

Nah, my parentas "at their 30's" already had house and a baby

My vision rx and glasses are basically 3 years old. Don’t know the last time I saw a dentist. #winning

Really both my parents and my 3 sibs have false teeth Dad was 19. when they were young and my siblings you didn’t go to the dentist unless you had infected teeth. Dental insurance was unknown. I got my children dental care but paid for it.

I'm a healthcare worker, teeth is nothing compared to terrible living conditions and health issues my community faces. I try my best, but there is only so much staff can do when it comes to corporate greed

Truth.

Sadly my generation that was for Peace and Love when they were younger, as they aged became the greediest and sucked up everything from future generations.

Oh - like my Dad before NHS. He got a set of dentures for his 21st birthday - lovely.

Bro, 30,000 for braces??? Yall are out of your Goddamn mind!!

I call those Luxury Bones. I'm missing quite a few

Your teeth are bones that live outside, that hang from your lips like bats. Oh, outside bones! Outside bones! Never forget your teeth are outside bones. - Titus Andromedon

Seriously? 😱Dang….haven’t been there in years. Who actually has the $$ for that kind of discretionary spending?

The economy has gotten so bad you can't even blame yourself…

That’s what it feels like

I’m Gen X, could barely afford our first house and I was in my 30’s. It cost $140,000 but I was making about $12 an hour. I’m not sure of a time that is was easy, or equitable

Michael Moore gave us an incredible gift. A free ticket to watch his show, "Sicko" on YouTube. It was amazing and a total gut punch all at the same time.

So hard. My parents bought their first house when they were barely adults. They paid $15k for it, brand new. My father worked and my mother stayed home. I think my dad made between $2 and $3 per hour in the mid 1960s as a meter reader for the electric company. My first house was 28k in the late 70s.

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Fact

You must be from Missouri

This would not be so funny if it wasn’t true!!!!

Wow! I wish more families purchased houses during the 2008 housing bubble. Some houses were selling for as low as 35K and now they’re worth about 250K. People were buying 10 to 12 houses back then and renting them out and they’re worth a fortune now.

As someone who paid $8000 for an implant—maybe I’ll go with a full set of denture for the rest of my life because having teeth is not financially sustainable at this point

I dream of being able to have a dentist never mind afford one. I own a home and a car

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But... but the STATISTICS! But the average wages! But the data! But the GDP per capita! All the lines went UP! The data says you're actually better off than ever before! Why don't you believe the data? Why?! PLEASE BELIEVE THE DATA! YOU'RE NOT REALLY STRUGGLING!

I think perhaps that the nature of the communities both live in has changed. The city my parents bought a home in was 1/5th the size then as it is now. For me to buy a home similar, that i can also afford, would require moving to a community of that smaller size.

Abusive and exploitative

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I just remembered my grandma was 30 when she decided to have all of her teeth pulled and get dentures 😬

I wonder if it is the choices made, the geography in which people live, wages, or all the above. My small sample size is 5 kids, 2 own homes, 3 do not... 2 of the 3 are by choice based on careers... All are working paying bills, and have cars... Some do better than others.

Pretty much...

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Let's say the money you made would buy you something. Greed and wealth disparity has destroyed the country. It must be fought. Swarming ants can take down an elephant.

Hear hear

I make way more than both my parents combined even adjusted for inflation. But they still had more buying power. They bought their house in '99 for $200K, and today it's worth $1.2m. The CPI difference is 92%, but their house is 600% more valuable. CPI and income just don't correlate.

Damn

I hear the average home buying age is 50 something and I'm like there is hope for me yet! (there isn't' actually not here)

This is FAMOUS! LOLOLOL Ohh Gaddd funny... hehe 😅🤣

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British moment

Accurate

You could have bought 3 house in 1985 for what 1 will cost you today.

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I see people in heir 30s spending money hand over fist.

remember the good old days? #planettitanic #humanextinction #societalcollapse

Lol oops *once in awhile.

I feel that. I'm pretty much only a reservist now to cover dental.

So very sad.

It's your fault for not being born in the correct decade. More fool you, try working hard to move back in time!

And America voted to continue this till your 40.

🤣It's funny but it's not

They told me the cost of fixing my teeth and other issues would cost the same as a small car

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Relatable

Or eyes...or a shave ;-p

Soylent green is keto

I feel attacked

Its the system!

Luxury Bones!

I hide everytime my dentist messages me for a visit

True, but I used a VA Loan. Still an available route to home ownership, for those that had no other options.

If we're going to drag this country back to the 1950s it's only fair the houses should cost $12,000 again too.

I feel like this hits closer to home than I wanted it to - it's hard to afford not only good healthcare but good beauty supplies (even for men - god knows what it's like for women) on a modern budget, so you look worse, so you feel worse.