Yes I expect they do.. however in the USA it's so large a country that people have a choice to move elsewhere if they can..here in the UK..everywhere all cities and large towns are overcrowded already.. although property is much cheaper in the North of the UK..but the work in many places isn't there.. .. Anyway sorry to Hal, I'm off topic!!
I was in 1st grade when we got a TV, 1952, I think. Before that we had a floor model combination radio/phonograph. I tried to find one just like it to test my memory, and this is the closest. The record player was on the left, 78 rpm only, and 3 radio dials on the right. But we never listened to serials, it was always music. My mother played music *all* the time when my dad was at work, just the two of us. The radio had a shortwave band, and I spent a lot of time searching that. I thought that was cool. I remember when gas was 26 cents a gallon, but I was a teenager by then, maybe 1960. Never paid much attention to the price before that. I grew up in a low cost of living area in NE Ohio.
This is my High School Graduation Picture of February,1954. (We had 2 graduating classes per year in Gardena High: February and June.) I never did like this picture, because instead of looking like a confident High School Senior, I looked more like a 13-year-old Altar Boy. I was scholastically skipped from the 4th to the 6th grade, which made me look even younger, and I was teased all through high school, mostly by girls, who called me Baby Face, Harmless, Puppy Dog, and other good-natured put-downs, but I have no regrets in terms of how my life turned out for me. Hal
Some folks are "hatched", from a scheme, as was my ex-wife's sister's little boy. She (sister) "took-up" purposefully with some tennis-pro guy hoping to have a baby boy, concerned that their family name, Ozimek, would disappear upon the sisters' deaths. She had the kid, the result of a hatched scheme, mother and son experiencing terrible times together, the boy eventually gravitating to his aunt, my -ex, and exiting his own mother's life altogether. Last I talked to her, the boy, then 30, was living with her, and neither knew the whereabouts of his mother. A functionally short-circuited family, that possibly being brought on by the murder-suicide of the sisters' parents many years ago. Frank
Frank, you lost me at your 4th cousin, twice removed, and his stepmother's divorce from your great uncle's illegitimate nephew. H.P.
@Hal Pollner I don't mind at all, that the one person in my life that I truly loved, whose "life" was irretrievably lost when her father pulled the trigger, leaving her, the then little girl of 10, and her brother of 16, both of whom we adopted, provide fodder for your enjoyment. Perhaps it would be best if I kept my lifelong troubled thoughts away from forums, anyway. Really, who gives a shit about serious events which happened a lifetime ago, especially when they happened to someone else. Frank