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1st...im just pointing out that it was rude to start a thread, ask for help, and then not reply.
2nd.... the standard of living has not gone down. think of every single thing you take for granted today. running water, electricity, your car, television, (heck, radio for that matter)...even sliced bread. not everybody had a romantic life of living in huge victorian houses. lots of people didn't have those "necessities" that we need today.
I own a large, historic home in Butler-Tarkington. Whoever lived in my place in 1908 when it was built was obviously not a middle class person.
to compare the rural midwest to feudal times, is laughable. i'm from a rural town in Indiana with a population of 1800. it's a mostly agricultural town. ...and although people don't drive porsches and ferraris around there, they have a good quality of life. nice houses, food, clean water, electricty, etc. 90 years ago? ...not so much.
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-mike
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