By Yuqing Pan | realtor.com
These days it seems like you can save and save—and still never build up enough cash to buy the perfect home. Why? Because the houses just keep getting more and more expensive, cost increases that seem proportionately higher and faster than, well, anything. Or so it seems. But exactly how much have housing prices really gone up in the past 30 years?
We decided to take a look at the numbers in perspective, compared with five other commonplace things most of us have been shelling out for over the same period. A couple of caveats: No, not all of us eat Big Macs. And let’s not forget that salaries were different 30 years ago. The figures presented here are absolute, nonadjusted dollar values.
