Explain how Homer can afford this

>>84001962
Because he lives in springfield and not california

>>84002075
Cuckifornia BTFO

take me away from this hell

>>84002075
>>84001962
Also works in a nuclear power plant.

>>84001962
Bought it in the 80s in flyover country. It was a different time.

because he doesn't live in those 3/4 american cities where people actually want to live.

>>84001962
He's works at a God damn nuclear power plant. He's obviously a tard, but the real life position he has would pay upwards of 80,000 a year.

>>84001962
His father helped pay for it, and the power plant has good salaries.

Throughout the majority of the series, the bathroom is where Maggie's room is in this image.

he works at a Nuclear Panner Plant

>>84001962
I want to play Sims now

>>84001962
the '80s

>>84001962
You think nuclear power plants pay peanuts?

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>>84001962
>the floor speakers and amplifier are hooked up on a bookshelf next to the tv
>not just hooking the speakers up with the tv as an input

Simpsons confirmed for fucking plebs

I could understand this setup if the speakers were in a different room but if they're in the same room you're unlikely to be watching tv and listening to music at the same time

He has a good job and Springfeilds housing market hasn't been destroyed by foreign investors or the tech boom.

>>84001962
Because in the late 80s, a basic white collar job (which were abundant) was enough to own a house and support a single income family.

>>84002280
Why you think people care about that crap autist?

>>84002280
Watch out, we got an autdophile. Don't you need to go buy crystal virus protected cable risers?

>>84001962
the basement door is in the other living room sometimes though, and faces in different directions sometimes...

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>>84002317
I know they don't care, but they really should

>>84002317

>Not having everything in your house set up in the most optimal way

>>84002134
this, despite being an idiot his job might actually be a nuclear engineer

>>84002280
I do

>>84002201
Nuclear*

It's pronounced 'nuclear.'

>>84002376
>>84002280
Oh look, a 16 year old

>hooking an old TV (which woudnt have an audio ouput channel) which didnt have cable up to their stereo

>>84002440

What kind of piece of shit tv did you own lad

>>84002383
Hes safety inspector you mug do you even watch simpsons

>>84001962

t. citycuck

>>84002489
>What kind of piece of shit tv did you own lad

One similar to literally every other single middle class family in the late 80s early 90s. One akin to what the Simpsons had.

They couldnt afford cable.

>safety inspector at a nuclear power plant in the late 80s

I dont see the problem here, probably has great benefits, im sure he'll retire with a decent pension too.

>>84001962
That's a big house.

>>84002280

What? They're hooked up to the record player on the shelf.

>>84001962
It was before 9/11, so much more was possible for the common man to achieve. A man could dream, and have it fulfilled.

>>84002280
you have never payed an electricity bill in your life have you

>>84002590
for you

>>84001962
The real reason he could afford it is because he sold his dad's house and put him in a nursing home. Homer is a bastard

because he lives in a magical time before boomers ruined everything.

he bought it before Obama became president

>>84002695
his dad has dementia, that's honestly where he belongs

>>84001962
It was the 80s.
Anyone could afford a home if they had a 9 to 5 job

>>84001962
Homer actually makes decent money. Safety Inspector at a nuclear Power Plant would pay 80-100,00 starting in the modern day world. Especially pre 00's.

Keep in mind that Abe sold the old Simpson house and gave the money to Homer so he could buy the house. (and then put Abe in a home only a few months later. Maggie's room was likely his before)

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Where did he get all the money from?
Are houses that cheap in America?

>>84002865
>Are houses that cheap in America?

Used to be

Easy.

1.) Homer actually has a decent white collar job. One that likely started at 80k a year. He's likely making over 100k now.

2.) Springfield is a wide open area in the middle on nowhere. Property isn't going to be that expensive. The house likely only costs 200k max. That can easily be payed off within a decade.

3.) Homer got this job back in the late 80's after only working in a bowling alley. Today he wouldn't even get an interview due to lack of qualifications.

A nuclear safety inspector makes an average of $65,610. He's also in a small town, where the cost of living would be low. It's also a cartoon.

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>>84002892
homer makes less

though i doubt the writers give a shit about continuity, logic or math

Because that's what the middle class in america looked like before it was eradicated.

>>84002865
Compared to many other countries, yes. A house like the Simpson's or Bundy's in my city would easily cost over 700K.

>five family members in house
>only one three seater couch
wtf

>>84002926
yep, people forget the show was made in the 1990s by people who grew up in the 60s/70s.

Because he lives in a cartoon

>>84002919
What year was this episode made?

>>84002919
Yeah, even for the time that episode aired, Homer should have been making almost x5 that.

Isn't that the episode where Springfield goes nuts with taxes and almost bankrupts everyone in town?

I don't get it. This is a pretty average sized house, and Homer works at a nuclear power plant. Why wouldn't he be able to afford it?

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House prices were a lot cheaper when they must've bought their house (80s?), with an affordable mortgate it's completely within reach

>>84002919
If their financial situation had kept with the times, the show would be about a family of homeless people. Bart and lisa turning tricks, marge and homer begging with the dog and baby, etc.

>>84001962
I have never seen that kid's playroom or hallway coming out of the basement before, in any episode. In the opening, where Homer is running from Marge parking her car, you can see the door from the garage goes into some larger room with pink walls and another door opposite. And IIRC the basement door goes into the kitchen. There are episodes where Homer comes straight out of the basement and sees the family sitting there eating at the kitchen table.

>>84002740
He and Marge should take care of his dad themselves. It's the least they could do after they kicked him out of his own house and sold it for profit.

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>>84002972
no that was the episode when springfield goes crazy about illegal immigrants and apu gets citizenship

>>84002958
1996

jesus christ....

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>>84002977
This is what the housing market is like now in major cities.

Keep in mind, the Simpsons were created in a time when the middle class was much more prevalent in the USA.

Also, it was a time when property values weren't sky high thanks to foreign investors and real estate scams.

Nowadays, Homer would likely be a retail wage slave barely making ends meet. It's quite possible Marge would have had to give up one or two of the kids. (or abort). They'd be living in a small apartment at best.

>>84003024
>low mortgage rates
>high demand for housing - high competition
>greedy wealthy housing sharks buying up (((investment properties))) before first-home buyers can actually enter the market at all

A one way ticket for high house prices and a housing bubble

>>84003019
for as old as the image is, you should know it's just a fan approximation

the empty space above the basement stairway, below the bathroom is indication enough that its not accurate to the show or real life.

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>>84003118
>he still believes in a house bubble

I just bought a house after almost a year of searching, and they certainly aren't showing any signs of slowing down - houses that you'd think are asking too much get bought up within days, and the prices just keep going up, because they always find people willing to pay

>>84003118
That bubble won't pop until there is irreparable damage.
The major investors that are inflating the market aren't Western.
They're Chinese and Indian millionaires buying property as a way to escape taxes in their home countries, as well as maybe occasionally live.

So long as Western property is scene as a better investment than their native property, the market will always be this high.

>>84001962
His father sold his house so he can afford it, and even then they struggled.

>>84003118
Exactly, it's why so many realtors are expecting another massive housing bubble to happen eventually. A LOT of the problems from the 2008 recession never got fixed or were given basic band-aid solutions.

>>84003186
>I bought a house in Mobile, Alabama. I'm so fucking smart

>>84003227
>be a kid
>dude lmao mobile homes are for poor people

>start looking for a house
>mobile homes are more expensive than the house I grew up in

>>84003002
>drive by a new development of apartmnets

>FROM THE LOW LOW LOW $300Ks!!

>>84003087
>Nowadays, Homer would likely be a retail wage slave barely making ends meet.

Sadly, This.

Homer would likely still be working minimum wage at the bowling alley. Getting a plant inspector job would require a degree and years of experience he wouldn't have.

Upward mobility is in a absolutely terrible place for the average American right now.

>>84003283
>Getting a plant inspector job would require a degree and years of experience he wouldn't have.
It did then
Lenny and Carl have degrees in nuclear physics

Homer got lucky.
He pulled a Homer

>>84003255
Really depends
The low end mobile home parks are really low end...
But the "community" ones where old retired people move into, where they are nice and you dont have to worry about trash, the doublewides absolutely are on par or more expensive than your middling house in a middling neighborhood.

>>84003191
so its how they're getting the US back for paying them $0.0035 an hour to build phones and apple products that'll be sold for more than said employees will make in a lifetime

>>84002641
been paying my own bills for almost 10 years, lad

I will incur a massive debt and "own" a house in the next year or two as well, there won't be any pleb shit unoptimized technology setups in that house

>>84001962
a 1989 economy

People seem to be forgetting that Mr. Burns is a fucking cheapskate...

>>84002556
>middle class
>can't afford cable

not sure you know what middle class means lad

>>84002383
In the series it was mentioned they didn't have a lot of money, I think they had $5 a week for groceries.

>>84003445
Cable was an expensive luxury in the 80s
You need to stop thinking that what you do today has any bearing on what reality was 30 years ago.

>>84003309
lenny and carl have masters

>>84003227
Not in the US, but in a big city. It's considerably smaller and it needs work, and I had to pay 5x as much as my parents did for a house that's thrice as good

>>84003479
How many limes is that?

>>84003204
There is one in my country.
There are too few houses on sale and too many that want to buy them. So what people do is they bid extra on the house so they pay a lot more than it is worth it, houses get sold within days and they for example delivered 30 houses but over 1k people signed up to buy them. Sometimes people bid around 70k above the price when the prices have gone up 20% in the major cities within a year. The interest on mortgages is extremely low so people get a high mortgage not realizing it will not always stay that low with the euro crisis always being averted just barely. Savings accounts interest is as low as 0,4% this year alone it has gone down from 1% to this and expected next month it will be 0.3% and so on. Once it hits 0 or goes into minus some bad shit will happen. The Euro is slowly crashing down due to refugees and bad economic situations of countries pulling us all down. China isn't doing much better either. This is also why bitcoin has been going up

>>84003504
I suppose

I wasn't alive then like you were though, so its a bit hard to understand the perspective

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>>84003019
>>84003126
that little playroom with the TV is called the "Rumpus Room." It is rarely seen, but you should remember it from some of the treehouse of horror episodes

I can't remember any episodes where they show the downstairs bathroom though

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Because he lives in

>>84002616
Lmao get help vro

>>84003409

>Bought a house
>installed speakers in the ceilings of most rooms
>subwoofer in living room
maximum floor space, maximum sound

didn't their basement have a small bar in it at one point? I seem to remember Homer hosting some kind of get-together down there and it being furnished, with a bar and red barstools

>>84002280
>hook up my nice speakers to my shitty 90's antenna tv
>hook up my nice speakers to my turntable and right next to my records
hmmmmmmm

>>84002901
kek

>>84001962
He a supervisor in a fucking nuclear power plant

>>84001962
>Parents bought a house 35 years ago for something around $300,000
>It's now worth $1.8 million
Can't wait till they kick the bucket

by now Evergreen Terrace would probably have been Detroit'd, with the Simpsons and Flanders etc long since replaced with the Washingtons and Hernandezes

>>84001962
In the 80s it was still possible for a single income to afford a decent life

Now you need to work like a literal slave for the glorious honor of renting a tiny shithole apartment.

>>84003118
>demolish house
>turn into a 500k condo with 1k a month condo fees

In canon he bought it cheap from Patty and Selma

>>84002181
>the power plant has good salaries.
This seems out of character for Burns.

He cant

>In order for the Simpson family to purchase the home, Abraham Simpson II sold his old house and wrote Homer a check for $15,000, allowing him to pay the down payment on the house. In "No Loan Again, Naturally", it is revealed that the Simpsons are unable to afford their mortgage anymore, due to Homer constantly loaning money against the house, which causes Ned Flanders to buy the house for $101,000 and rent it to the Simpsons.

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I know who you are OP.

>>84003613
50

>>84005003
Or what's happening in my country
>buy big old house, perfect for family of 4 or more + dog, nice backyard and all
>demolish it
>build 2 or more 'units' in its place
>no yard, no shed, no room for families to live
>charge each unit just as much as what the worth of the house had been
>rent out the 2+ units, immediately doubling income from the (((investment property)))
>my country has laws protecting such behaviour, if you make a loss on such a venture, the government will cut your taxes and balance you out

This is disgusting.

I live in a single room above a bowling alley, and below another bowling alley

>>84002168
That position starts at around $70k, someone with his years of experience would be over $200k

Theres no chinese in Springfield buying up houses to inflate the price.

>>84005227
Fuck off commie capitalism is goat

>>84005255
Capitalism is only as good as the people who use it.
And Communism is just pants-on-head retarded

>>84002135
>flyover country.
Wrong

>>84005460
It is flyover country though

>>84001962
It's a cartoon with yellow people.

>>84004399
there's an episode where he builds a crappy bar in his garage, and has lenny and carl drink there because they were boycotting Moe's for some reason. REM guest-starred I think, it was zombie simpsons.

Though there was an episode from the first season of family guy where peter opened a bar in his basement

>>84004399
that's flander's basement

>>84001962
that skewed perspective is melting my brain

>>84006538
it's called "isometric"

>>84002865
Depends where you live. If you don't mind living in a third-tier Midwestern city, or a 90 minute commute to work every day somewhere along the coasts, you can easily get a house like that for about $250k-$300k in a suburb. Given that Homer probably makes at least $80k, its not too terrible.

He was a boomer.

Literally every middle aged white boomer owns a house. Why? Because that house probably only cost $50,000 at the time.

My parents house cost 45k when they bought it in the 70s. It's worth 800k today.

>>84003118
It's going to be absolutely fucking hilarious when the housing bubble pops AGAIN and the economy goes into the shitter for a decade AGAIN and nothing gets done to prevent it from happening again AGAIN

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>>84006773
>Homer probably makes at least $80k

No he does not.

>>84006886
that pic is from the 90s

>>84006773
In today's prices. Look up the house prices in that area in the 70s/80s. They'll probably be 1/3rd that.

>>84006927
And he bought his house in the 70s/80s. And it wasn't their first house they lived in together. And they had help from Marge's parents.

>>84001962
Hes a fictional character, only loosely based on reality.

>>84003024
thats fake, the real ad went somewhere around 45,000

If you were a nuclear safety inspector, even if you were married to a stay-at-home mom and had three kids, you could still afford a house like that

>>84007068
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-19/remember-vancouver-teardown-shack-it-just-sold-25-million-80000-over-asking?page=1

Nope, it's real

Well for once he is an international celebrity..

>>84001962
When I used to work at a grocery store, the guys 50 and older who have been with the company since being teenagers told me that just becoming full time was enough to buy a house, and this is in Chicago. Think about that and compare it to the current reality where people are pissed that minimum wage wants to be raised.

>>84006886
2010, homer drank a $60,000 bottle of wine and said he was drinking his salary

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>>84003126
>>84003019
Its dumb to even try to make a floor plan for the simpsons house since the house changes shape to service the writers.

>>84003309
Homer has a degree too, he got the nerds to change his grade when he got forced to go to college

>>84002440
What are tuners?

>>84007779
What the fuck his house was that big? Were there only two apartment on each floor or something?

>>84001962
He bought it in the 80s before boomers and bankers had completely ruined the housing market

>>84007894
Homer is a boomer.

>>84003504
This. cable was really expensive, and not available everywhere. Hell, my parents only lived 20 miles outside Washington DC and didn't even have cable available until 2008. A common punchline/tell back in the 80s was that a family was really rich if they had HBO.

>>84003799
Because you're a fucking dumbass. Always will be.

>>84003504
I don't like thinking about the 80s it reminds me of how poor my family started.

>>84002376

>having everything in your house set up in the most optimal way
>being overweight or dyel and posting on 4chan

>>84001962
What ios that playroom behind the garage? I have never seen that location before.

>>84005227

which country? We actually have the opposite happening in nice neighbourhoods where a doctor or wealthy person moves in buids a GIANT house on a lot and a half squeezing it between normal sized houses. It just looks so out of place.

I can't believe foreigners allowed to even own property...

>>84002641
>Is this retard implying you can't just turn off the speakers if you are so poor you can't pay to use them

>>84008391
Australia bruh, we're in a YUGE housing bubble... almost as big as Canada. And cramming people in, building "houses" (read: units) like crazy, and restricting the potential for big families is only delaying and compounding the problem.
I also find it hard to believe that foreigners can own property.

>>84002919
This is from 1996. Homer's weekly salary (before taxes) is $479.60 (or $23,980/yr). Adjusted for inflation, that's $749.51 in 2017 (or $37,475.50/yr)

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>>84002120
It's not that bad.

>>84001962
I thought Grandpa left the house to him and then Homer stuck him in a retirement home.

>>84005181

How can I be him if I'm dead?

>>84008942
nah grandpa's old house was completely different

they sold his old house and used the money to pay for theirs

When has it ever shown the downstairs bathroom in an episode?

>>84008832
>paying higher taxes and cost of living for lazy pieces of garbage to not work
>mah mountains and celebrities
>dduuuuurrrrrrrrrr hhhhhhhuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrr

Literal autists.

>>84008164
Rumpus room, and you probably have seen it, you just don't remember because it's rarely shown. Bart and Lisa and Milhouse would play in it sometimes. IIRC it was where Bart sold his soul to Milhouse on a piece of paper (or at least it was heavily featured in that episode): >>84004124

>>84001962
I honestly dont remember that little play room on the first floor near the garage.