4 bedrooms

>4 bedrooms
>3 bathrooms
>Massive garden
>3 living rooms

How did Homer afford this?

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It was a different time

He was a power plant safety inspector

he worked at nuclear panner plant

Because Homer's what's wrong with America

He was poor though

first for rumpus room

When this show was made, it could pass for a bad homelife. No one expected America to nosedive to where the Simpsons have a dream life. I’m envious of Homer; great house, 2 cars, job where he can sleep, nice small town community...he’s living the dream.

>the downstairs room above the garage
what simpsons episodes is that in?

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Got money from Grampa, when he sold his house
Also generally low prices in the 80s and in Flyoverland

because he spent all his money on the house

RUMPED

just like every other automatic reply, housing market took a huge shit. the value of that house either skyrocketed or homer would be surrounded on all sides by renters

Grandpa sold his house that he only had because he won it from a crooked game show. He gave the money to Homer to buy their house, and they put him in an old folks home after about three weeks. Did you even watch the show?

>Having the tv set up in the back living room and not the front
Pleb taste

Something something Frank Grimes

Where would it go? In front of the fireplace, the huge bay window, or one of the alcoves? There isn't a free space for it

>No one expected America to nosedive
Maybe if you're a boomer retard who thought that lower and middle class standard of living was in any way sustainable.

It's called a den.

>They own a piano
Why?

inb4 the one episode it was used in

Everyone could have a house like this, but then (((something))) happened to the economy

only because of his dumb shenanigans

For aesthetic. Every middle class American home had an upright piano back then. It's why you can go on craigslist today and get one for free as long as you haul it out. My senpai got rid of ours about 8 years ago.

He sold tomacco he bought from a certain store to buy it.

>but then (((something))) happened to the economy
go on...

This is how poor people lived in America in the 80s and 90s.

>wooden shack
>1 medium room
>1 storage room

How couldn't chuck afford that?

Can't really go by number of rooms since today's homes are less compartmentalized with more open areas.

Also, dens used to be popular before basements were built with 10 ft ceilings which made them a viable living space.

He had a great job. Didn't Lenny or Karl say that he should really have a Master's in Nuclear Engineering to do what he did?

He opened a fuck & suck in the middle of a small farming town. He didn't target a proper demographic and had to settle somewhere else.

He was a Boomer

My parents had to pay someone to take theirs when they downsized. Pianos are a bitch to move.

so comfy

>Massive garden
british?

a home like that isn't massive or expensive in most of the united states
if homer is bringing home ~70k and marge is maybe working part time they could absolutely afford ~250k mortgage that would more than cover a small home in a medium sized suburban development
here's a house in springfield IL thats probably a good 1000sqft larger than the simpsons
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Didn't his father sell his home to put the money into? Also he has a good job. He's just under qualified for it.

He only became the safety inspector in season 1 episode 3 after being fired for gross incompetence as a nuclear technician (hence why the scene with him handling the nuclear rod is in the intro to begin with). At that point he already owned the house. As said earlier, Homer bought it with is dad's money.

You sound pretty mad. Work harder if you want a better life.

>afford ~250k mortgage
Goddamn houses must be cheap some places

>tfw you can't buy a one bedroom condo for that much in my city

I think the point is the Simpsons house, even after factoring inflation, would be worth 5x as much on the market today than when they bought it 30-some years ago, and not even close to what a young lower-middle class couple looking to start their life together could put a down payment on today.

Lenny and Karl both said they had advanced degrees, and that Homer was just there the day the plant opened.

Homer: to succeed despite ignorance.

Homer, according to Much Apu About Nothing, grosses about 24k a year which may or may not have risen slightly over the years, but generally speaking he's a poor bastard. Also Marge doesn't work.

I don't know where you got that conclusion. I was mocking your inability to understand economic fluctuations.

he is a white baby boomer, it is impossible to fail at life

my dad dragged ours out and cut it up with a saw lol, shame no one ever told him about craigslist

Isn't he a nuclear engineer? That is a 6 figure job, numnuts.

Does anything ever occur in the downstairs play room at the top of the picture? I can't recall ever seeing it in the show.

$362.19 a week.

Homer's home would be worth a hell of a lot more than $250k if it was sold today. Probably closer to $950k given the size, condition, and school district.

What a bunch of plebs, its stated that the grampa sold his old house to help homer to purchase that one, after one week of having him living there he was sent to the retirement castle

because he kept spending his money on random shit and shenanigans.

That's because it's a CONDO in a CITY you dumb fuck. Real estate is all about location, and suburbs in rust belt states are cheaper.

True. I grew up in a house very, very similar to the Simpsons'. The fourth bedroom was just a playroom for my sister and I.

I doubt I'll ever afford such a place even though my gf and I both have degrees and my parents didn't.

He sold seed as a side job

find a ~2500sqft home in a small town worth more than 400k
not to mention it has an unfinished basement and is on a tiny lot with an old shitty kitchen

there is no chance that house goes for more than 300k realistically

Well, there you have it.

Maybe it was the opposite, he made enough from the feed and seed business to retire
If the store was doing poorly, Sneed would have no reason to mention Chuck, it was there so people woulfn't be confused after they showed up looking for Chuck's Feed & Seed.

He's a guard at a nuclear plant not an engineer. In the show he has a dou le digit IQ because he has a crayon lodged in his brain.

Sperm isn't really worth much if they even accept you into a sperm bank. You basically have to be Hitler's ubermensch.

it’s Neitsche’s ubermensch. His bitch sister sold the idea to the nazi’s.

well, why did this take an hour
the simpsons bought it with a 15k down payment from grampa
but homers constant fucking up led to a foreclosure and ned flanders buying it and renting it back to the simpsons

>he thinks Chuck worked selling feed & seed like Sneed did
Poor, naïve child

>guard

Safety Inspector...

He probably meant Hitler's specific kind because you have to be muscular, handsome, high IQ, no family history of diseases or alcoholism and blond or brunette (they even turn down black haired and gingers)

TONIGHT ON WINGS... Eh, who cares.

>even having two damn living rooms AND a dining room

The Simpsons neighbor to the right has a side garage?

that's like 1500 per month and isn't much considering that he's maintaining a five members family

A nuclear power plant safety inspector easily makes 100k a year in the real world

Late 80s early 90s before liberals ruined the economy. It was a different time.

honestly this. the standard of living for the white middle class has drastically gone down since the 80s thanks to outsourcing, globalism and mass immigration

Actually globalisation was already a thing back then, otherwise middle class families wouldn't have been able to afford so many dirt cheap appliances. What do you think an American made microwave oven would cost?

Stupid sexy Flanders!

He didn't grandpa Simpson did, grandpa sold his old home and gave the money to homer so that he could live his life with his family in his own home.
Homer was so touched he offered grandpa a room in the new home so that they could live together. After 2 weeks he kicked out grandpa and put him in a home.

sacrifice

remember in S1-4 when they'd routinely have serious money issues and would have to go without basic things or try to sell/pawn the TV or get secondary menial jobs?

adjusted for inflation he was making 700 a week

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there used to be a thing called the middle class in the West before Reagan and Thatcher

>tfw once upon a time you could work a honest job in construction with a stay at home wife, a couple of kids and afford a car, a house and maybe a little summer cottage and a modest fishing boat

There's no hope for the future. The comfy middle class doesn't exist anymore

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That's not great for a nuclear technician, only earner in household either. Try feeding a family of five on a 48k gross 36k net wage.

Could you really, or is that merely what well earning boomers want you to believe? You think there was no poverty in the 60s?

I was pretty much describing my grandpa and most of my older uncles. Not saying poverty didn't exist, just saying blue collar jobs aren't what they used to be

He doesn't live in New York. I doubt when they made the series, his house would be worth more than 100k. Homer made just enough to get by. I always thought his car was a POS and the house wasn't meant to be special. It just shows you how much has gone wrong, if someone think the Simpsons are well off.

>tfw you're just happy to consistently put food on the table and a roof over your head

the shit you white people call "middle class" is stunning; real disconnect from the real world.

America is the real world

>America is a 3rd world
ftfy
get out your gated community and you'd understand

Gated communities are the real world

Nobody cares lol

3rd world doesnt relate to economic strength, it relates to affiliation in the cold war (us and allies were 1st, commies and allies were 2nd, unafilliated were 3rd) it just so happens that most of the unafilliated countries were poor as fuck

let us in yo *smacks lips*

>understands the point
>argues semantics
Adults are talking kid.

In the episode when Bart and Lisa make Itchy & Scratchy cartoons using their grandpa's name, the tv guy tells Abe that he's gonna make $800 per week working for them, which would be about $41,600 per year.

He nearly has a heart attack and is then show in fancy clothes and a fancy car, so that must have been a lot of money back then. It makes sense Homer could've afforded that house with whatever he was earning.

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>so that must have been a lot of money back then
You can look up exactly how much it was at the time by using a free online inflation calculator.

Before the 2008 economic crash you could buy a house and newer model car working minimum wage

I grew up in a house almost identical to that. It's worth $125k.

The Simpsons were "poor" by 80s-90s standards, excuse the meme but it really was a different (and better) time

what episode?

So Springfield is located in middle America?

Way to buy into post-war allied atrocity propaganda you morons

The word "ubermensch" was never even used in any national socialist publication of the time

Also the aryan pass and waffen SS admittance criteria clearly define "aryan" as any european

And none of Nietzsche's late writings are "forged", the jews just made this up