[ChuckNorris89]

>You would be hard-pressed to find, anytime in history and anywhere on planet earth, a time and place where salaries are really high and CoL is really low.

US, Germany and most of western europe in the post war boom till the late 80's.

A factory assembly worker at VW could buy an apartment and feed his family on a single income back then. Fat chance of doing anything like that now.