The items you mention have not increased in price due to trade.
1/2. Rent/land: Remain cheap in the midwest. Very nice 3 bedroom houses in suburban Texas can be had for $125,000; you can easily buy one on a software dev's salary (in other words, 1950s style where the husband as only worker). Insist on living on the West Coast? Well, you can blame the obscene housing prices on a combination of population increase and zoning laws.
3 food. Ok, we're looking at maybe 50% increase over raw inflation from the 1950s. Aside from this being a small increase, most of this increase can be attributed to additional food safety and even more importantly surging price in oil due to larger world population.
4. Education: Sure, it's surged, but again this is due to lower taxes and more social programs, not trade. Besides, education ($60k tuition for 4 years in public school) isn't that bad compared to the the savings on cars alone over a lifetime.
5. Has this gone up? Assuming your spouse was working in the 1960s that is.
6. In all fairness, life expectancy is significantly higher now than 50 years ago.
1/2. Rent/land: Remain cheap in the midwest. Very nice 3 bedroom houses in suburban Texas can be had for $125,000; you can easily buy one on a software dev's salary (in other words, 1950s style where the husband as only worker). Insist on living on the West Coast? Well, you can blame the obscene housing prices on a combination of population increase and zoning laws.
3 food. Ok, we're looking at maybe 50% increase over raw inflation from the 1950s. Aside from this being a small increase, most of this increase can be attributed to additional food safety and even more importantly surging price in oil due to larger world population.
4. Education: Sure, it's surged, but again this is due to lower taxes and more social programs, not trade. Besides, education ($60k tuition for 4 years in public school) isn't that bad compared to the the savings on cars alone over a lifetime.
5. Has this gone up? Assuming your spouse was working in the 1960s that is.
6. In all fairness, life expectancy is significantly higher now than 50 years ago.