[WalterBright]

My "anecdotes" are pretty easy to verify for yourself. Ask someone who has been around a while. The tourism industry has been recently in the news as place after place is groaning under the weight of tourists loving them to death.

housing - a couple factors at work here. Increasing population means housing is going to cost more. There's no getting around that.

education - you can get an MIT education for free on youtube. I've been filling in gaps in my education that way. For FREE!!! How awesome is that? The cost of attending college has indeed gone way up - due to government policy.

healthcare - this cost increase is driven by government policy.

[lordnacho]

Both housing and education are also largely driven by regulation. Housing when it comes to restricting new building, and education in regards to student loans.

[StandardFuture]

> Housing when it comes to restricting new building

Which is a very relevant form of regulation with regards to housing costs, because this regulation tends to exist more in places with high housing demand. So, you can still buy a cheap house in the middle of nowhere where there also is likely (gasp) no regulations on housing. Not sure what the causal relationships are exactly but the correlation seems to be there for sure.

I just sum it up as the baby boomers fucking over their kids for a quick buck, but shrug what do I know?