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The suburban exodus…

A predicted shift toward urban living is being reported by Realtor.com.

Over the next decade… four demographic groups will fuel the housing market. He said older baby boomers increasingly are moving back to the central city, while younger baby boomers are finding it more difficult to relocate for jobs because they cannot sell their suburban houses. Meanwhile, millennials are more environmentally aware and will seek urban lifestyles, and immigrants who cannot afford large suburban houses to shelter multiple generations will increase demand for rentals.

It’s funny, because I am personally trending in that direction. My daughter will be going to the North Central Charter Essential School in Fitchburg next year, and, frankly, I am tired of having to spend so much of my life on the road. Groceries? Add to the cost of food the half-hour it takes to get there, plus gas.  And that goes on all day.

When I was growing up, a child of farm lineage, listening to the pride in my mother’s voice when she described our home as the only one in a mile, besides my grandmother’s cow farm down the dirt road in front. My parents loved the isolation; I had no playmates until I started school in the first grade. Gas was about .30 a gallon. Really.

My parents may not always have been happy about it, but they were able to afford to live on just my father’s salary. There was no such thing as an “indoor cat” at that time in our area. And our grandparents and other relatives of that generation had lived in cities when they moved here from whatever country they had come from – Gardner, Fitchburg, even New York – and felt moving rural or suburban was moving up.

It is interesting that the grandchildren of this generation are initiating the urban movement. This generation – more connected than their grandparents could have imagined possible because of technology – are shrugging aside the technology of transportation in favor of the vitality of city life.

It will be interesting to watch the rebirth and revitalization of our urban centers as a new generation turns its eyes inward, to the city.

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Cost Of Living 1965

How Much things cost in 1965
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.59%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 969
Average Cost of new house $13,600.00
Average Income per year $6,450.00
Gas per Gallon 31 cents
Average Cost of a new car $2,650.00
Loaf of bread 21 cents
Average Rent per month $118,00

A home cost about two years’ of average income.

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