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[derien]

I was going to add to my post of last night, but...

I'd like to say that I KNOW I had it a lot better than plenty of the people I was growing up near. Also, that I'm far too old to have taken that meme, because apparently it was aimed at kids who are in college now(?), and many factors were different when I was a kid. My parents actually owned the house I grew up in, but back then houses were much less expensive to buy,* and even so they had to divide it and take in tenants because it was too expensive to keep up, so it became multi-family, but I can remember it being single-family when I was very small.

In the opposite direction, only the quite well-off ever took plane trips, and it wasn't until I was in high school that tickets began to come down in price, I think because of the deregulation the Reagan cabinet did to stimulate the economy. Someone fluttered about the magic age of 16 on cheezdanish's journal, where I got the meme, and that does strike me as odd. If the person writing the test were my age and didn't know that there were factors outside of the family economics which affected that, they might have made some assumption that the most expensive part of raising a kid was over by that point. It might, in fact, not be anything like true that one has to be privileged these days in order to have flown before they were 16.

*Although I have no idea how expensive their house was, because they would never say. They would only say that it was $1, because at the time many deeds, to avoid taxes, read, "One dollar, and other considerations." One of the considerations was that we had to take care of their pony until they were ready to come get it. A flock of chickens and a cat came with the house.:)



The sun is coming up, I need to get something done. Only an hour before I have to be at the gym, if I'm going to go.

Comments

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

That's cute about the chickens and cat! Some of my friends moved out the country recently and they got an old car and dog thrown in free.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Is it true that $1 was the minimum amount of money for a transaction to be legal? IIRC, it was a measly 1p here! (I rather like the idea of 1p and other considerations :-) In fact, airlines like Ryanair regularly offer special flights as low as 1 cent (the considerations being airport taxes), which means that it's certainly possible for the less economically privileged to travel by air (air travel may be cheaper than ferry+bus, which used to be the cheap means).

[derien.livejournal.com]

Is it true that $1 was the minimum amount of money for a transaction to be legal?

It sounds probable, my very faint memory of my parents talking about it says so, but I don't know for sure.

Your privelege meme may have to include travel by ferry. :) If I could afford to take the time off to travel by train I'd prefer that over flying any day.