Reply #3: What's with bashing the 70's??? [View All]

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in April 1970 my parents pulled up stakes from their childhood home of SoCal and with Grandmother and two little kids in tow, moved to Southern Oregon. They had no college degrees, no job prospects, but with a little help from Granny and my aunts and uncles, they purchased 2 1/2 acres of land and built 3 homes on it. Within 1 1/2 years they both had good paying jobs, allowing our family to climb into the burgeoning middle class.

At least in the 70's the middle class was still growing. It was the 80's that saw my Dad laid off from that job of 13 years and he rarely did well until he was forced into retirement because of Multiple Myeloma.