The Cost of Life a 100 Years Ago

Less than half of homes a hundred years ago had electricity. Many houses didn't have running water those it did have running water almost none of them had running hot water. Today you can't build a house in low income housing unless it has hot running water cold water and electricity Things that the average household didn't have a 100 years ago That's right. So when we start to think about what life was like a hundred years ago in the so-called good old days Now we've got a couple of different things to consider on the one hand We've got the relative costs of various needs that are floating around out there But on the other hand we've got this notion of life being comfortable