I often mention how my dad was a janitor and my mom did not work regularly and at most a bit of part time. I was raised in a ramshackle house but it was 5 bedroom. thats right 5 bedroom. I never apprciated till I got old that I fucking lived in a mansion. To see that type of family watch the start of caddy shack. The main characters family was not exagerated or unusual.
Great thing this website is omitting inflation entirely making things seam more cheap than they actually were
They actually do in a round about way. The truck as an example was 8 months salary for an average worker. A couple other examples show single income households and what they could afford. Inflation or not, it uses examples based on wages earned in the same time frame.