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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

1980 was not prosperous times. I remember us using food stamps. My dad was working in a hospital kitchen and stole food from work to feed us. Inflation was crazy, gas went up to about $1.80 (in 1980 dollars) and the Reagan era mass unemployment of 1982 was just around the corner. Jimmy Carter famously told the nation to wear a sweater in winter when people couldn't afford heating.

Our family of four lived in a small two bedroom duplex in 1980.

I do have fond memories from back then, but it had nothing to do with prosperity. It was that I was always over at Grandma's house and Grandma was a god damned saint who walked among us.

Go ahead and downvote and deny the realities of a time you probably weren't even alive.