How did Homer afford this?

He had a good tax policy.

>>84505698
Hes a boomer. Thats also how he gets a comfy job with steady pay even though hes incompetent. Life was that easy in the 70s and 80s

A safety inspector at a nuclear plant probably pulls in 100,000 a year

>>84505698
yanks have big houses, even poorfags

also that backroom on the ground floor that I'm even sure i remember.

Realistically he couldn't. Doesnt the episode with Frank Grimes actually make fun of this?

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>>84505759

>>84505830
really makes you think

>>84505698
He got a part time job at Sneed's Feed and Seed.

Why is that little room with the TV and the window facing the back yard seem so goddamn cozy?

>>84505830
I never thought Homer had a dead end job, the work was never hard and he had some good co-workers.

>>84505921
what's really comfy is living is Colorado and having a window with a view of the mountains

It was the late 80s, early 90s, the dollar went a lot farther.

>>84505823
Realistically he could. He's a safety inspector, albeit a shitty one.
Frank Grimes on the other hand had two full time jobs, one being at a nuclear plant and lived in a shitty apartment. Even if he did have to pay for his degree. Average pay is 48k to 72k a year for his first job only while we don't know about his second job.

>>84505698
I'm fairly certain that Abe sold his house and gifted Homer the deposit in order to buy it when Marge was pregnant with Lisa. I think the original deal was Abe would live with them.

>>84505986
Do you live there? I've visited a few times as a Scout and later camp counselor and it's a stunning state, blew me away. Wondering how affordable it is.

>>84505698
Fantasy and humburgeraeater's propaganda of manychildrenhood

>>84505759
>>84505771
>>84506012
A combination of these

this was also pre-2007, and anyone could buy huge houses using subprime mortgage loans

>>84506074
An eagle stole that money on the day Homer married.

>>84506174
until they got cucked by the banks and ratings agencies

Who lives in the house on the right side of the property?

>>84505759
what is a boomer

>>84506247
Some donut making hipster for one episode

>>84506247
the Dinklebergs

>>84505698
Like most degenerate late boomers, with debt which his kids will have to pay off

>>84506093
Yes; my parents' house cost about $400k

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>>84505771

>>84505801
Its the magic rumpus room that only appears once in awhile.

>>84506425
taxation is theft. Prove me wrong

>>84506475
When was the last time you ever saw a bear?
Clearly the bear tax is working.

>>84506425
>11.99 an hour

brilliant

>>84506524
I'm a fucking intern and I get paid nearly twice as much as Homer

>>84506570
inflation is a bitch

>>84505801
>>84506469
>>84505921
I'm trying to think of the number of times we've actually seen that room. The only one that comes to mind right now is when Martin, Milhouse, and Bart are fighting in Three Men and a Comic Book, and Homer "checks in" on them.

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>>84506475

>the baby gets her own room
>it's almost as big as the master bedroom
>not just letting the baby sleep in the same room as you so you can turn that spare room into a man cave

Do Americans really do this?

>>84506745
Do non-Americans even have spare rooms?

>>84506035
>>84505823
Frank Grimes pretty much typifies the average disgruntled gen X wage slave in the 90s, who were royally fucked by the 90s recession and financial crisus, which disproportionately affected gen Xers L. It made taking out a loan much more difficult and house ownership plummeted. Many of this generation believed the recession was caused by greedy boomers gen, who benefited the most from the 80s stock boom. Hence his hatred of Homer, who represents the greedy late boomer generation.

>>84505950
yeah he just hates it, but that doesn't mean it's a dead end job. apart from his boss being a psychopath and not knowing his name, it's really alright. Homer did actual dead-end jobs like assistant at a bowling alley and he enjoyed the crap out of that

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>>84505698
>In order for the Simpson family to purchase the home, Abraham Simpson 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.

>>84506745
only poor children share a bedroom in the USA

>>84507157
why is Lisa blonde but Bart dark-haired?

>>84507237
Why would either of them be blonde when Homer had brown hair and Marge had blue hair?

>>84505698
nuclear power pays well

i feel bad for people who studied some low paying shit

>>84507237

>thinks a bumbling of like Homer can properly satisfy a woman like Marge

She had to feel those Aryan juices at least once

>>84507292
Look at their hair, it's yellow and just because blonde hair is a recessive gene it doesn't mean it can't appear if both parents aren't blonde

>>84507237
Blonde hair is feminine

This is what an average middle class schmuck could afford in the 80s and 90s before subprime mortgages allowed the lower class to buy a home and foreign investors started buying up all the property in every major city.

They forgot the attic where Bart's lost brother lives

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>>84505950
Yeah, it's a dead end for him since it's a job that doesn't play to his personality strengths. In the episode with Lisa's Wedding they even show that he never advances out of it while Lenny and Carl both become major players at the plant (and Milhouse advances enough to potentially be the new Smithers).

But you put him in a position where it's more physical labor and serving the public (such as at the bowling alley) and he has a much more enjoyable time.
Because homer is an example of a man having what Friedrich Nietzche's described as a "slave mentality." It's throughout the show. He is not a master of his own destiny but a slave to others and their needs. Probably a controlled psy-op to teach children what they think men should be in a larger societal framework or a "take that" from a marxist writing staff

>>84506871
Frank Grimes represents Gen X. Frank Grimes' illegitimate love child represents millenials - violent and irrational but not without a touch of brilliance

>>84505698
Grandpa Simpson sold his home and gave them money for a down payment.

>>84505921
Rumpus room!

>>84506570
>HEY GUYS I MAKE $20 AN HOUR AS AN INTERN LOL

Why do you feel the need to lie on the internet?

>>84508277
but I'm not

>>84507292
First off, Marge dyes her hair. This is well known amongst the gossip circle of Springfield's women (and I forget what episode that is, but it's in that context).

Second off, this artist is just kind of dumb. The Bart's "spiky" hairline was originally supposed to be representative of an extremely short haircut (like a total buzz) that's grown out a touch (though this shifted to be concieved of as a more gelled spiky hairstyle once that became a thing in the actual 90's) and what we're seeing is effectively the color of his scalp, which matches his general skin tone. The artist there actually seems to get the concept, but he' choosing a shade of color on his bart that is too dark by far.

The simpsons children are meant to all be Blonde (or in the blondish to brown haired range). As seen in the one episode where Homer imagined them in a more realistic style briefly. I think the intended takeaway is that Marge is a blonde who just dyes her hair regularly.

>>84508430
>First off, Marge dyes her hair. This is well known amongst the gossip circle of Springfield's women (and I forget what episode that is, but it's in that context).
That's why I said *had* blue hair. She dyes her hair because it was originally blue, but turned grey.

>>84505698
>>How did Homer afford this?
>Be nuke 'engineer'
>Work the same job for more than 30 years
>3 bed 3 bath in fly over country

Looks like a 200k-300k house that's what 1k-1.5k/mo and most likely paid off by now too

>>84508277
interns will only work 10-20 hours a week.

>>84505950
You were supposed to think it was a dead end job when the show started. That's why writers gave him this job.

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>>84508164
And like most middle age boomers aging parents, they put poor Grandpa in a miserable retirement home, so they can get more of his gibs when he eventually dies . This was the generation that sacrificed so much to give them the quality of life they now enjoy, and this is how boomers from all around the US repay them. Fuck Boomers. They're truly the scum generation. I have no sympathy for them, and I can't wait for governments to cut their social welfare once the welfare state is near collapse as a result of their stupid and naive movements that has destroyed the social fabric of America. I hope they all die of heart disease.

>>84506475
it's voluntary exchange

you give government money and they don't seize your shit

>>84508277
my friend is an intern at lockheed and literally makes 20 an hour

he can only work 20 hours a week though

>>84508277
>>84508672
my friend makes $22.50 an hour as an intern

40 hours a week

engineer

i made $18.50 an hour as an intern a few years ago

also an engineer

>>84509197
that doesnt sound voluntary at all

is it voluntary if I say you're going to give me 100 dollars a week or im going to break your legs?

>>84505698
Cross sections are comfy as fuck.

>>84509293
engineering is overpowered, to much money for weird vague work

like my friend has trouble telling me what the fuck he does, like sort of programming kind of? Trial and error trying to get desired simulation results? what does that even mean

Even though I'm sure it's been changed since then but it's in the do it for her episode where its explained.
They were rich before they had a few kids.
Its the same in the Malcolm in the Middle episode. They had a huge nice house BEFORE being poor as fuck cause they have 5 kids.

>>84508922
No, it wasn't. The point always was that it's a job that actually pays good, but isn't what Homer wants.

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How did Ned afford his house?

>>84506511
Can confirm.
We don't pay the bear patrol tax where I live.
I see bears at least once a month.
The bears will soon outnumber us.
The moose have already surpassed our abilities.

>>84509342
i imagine its different everywhere

some places have large engineering departments, some may only have a few that are not very busy

some are hands on, some are not

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>>84506425

Bear Patrol Tax $5!

>>84505698
By being a fictional character in a cartoon series with only loose ties to reality and a nebulous continuity.

>>84509373
I find it ironic that most of these white middle class family sitcoms have families with 3 to 5 children, yet it's rare today to see a white middle class family with more than 2 kids.

>>84505698
He bought it with the money Abe got by selling his house, it was shown in a flashback episode.

Also, it´s heavly implied that Homer has decent earnings, but the family is always struggling with money because of Homer´s alcoholism and all the problem they get in.

>>84509293
This pisses me off, In the UK engineers get paid like shit. I go to a top 50 uni in the world so fairly decent. And If I get the grades I want I'm expecting like £26.5k before tax ($35k) max in a grad job

>>84508509
Homer is like 38 in the show. He's probably had that job since Bart was born, at most

>>84509293
me too, as a software engineer

because he doesn't live in California or NYC

>>84509308
well it's your decision whether or not to give the cash

>>84506524
.95 cents more than I make as a butt wiper.

>>84510227
Should switch from Nursing to fast food worker. Its the job of the future

>>84506745
Both my son's have their own bedroom, plus one designated playroom and one media room with a projector screen. The back yard is half an acre.

The house cost $250,000

>>84510448
Now imagine you have another 2 to 3 kids. That's why tv families are always broke but have huge homes. Even Roseanne's house and Al Bundy's houses were two stories with attics and basements and none of the kids shared rooms.

>>84509342
Maybe you have trouble understanding lol.

A lot of work is also technical enough that if people don't know the field it is useless to explain because no one cares.

>>84509925
Damn son. I'm a no-degree tech support boi from Ohio, and I make $19.25/hr, 5 hrs overtime per week puts me me in the ~$45k/yr range.

Come across the pond and get paid, your accent will make you 100% cooler and more hireable.

>>84509925
That is literally better than most starting grad salaries, engineers are fucking babies who don't realise how healthy their industry is.

t. Social science post grad in professional field who can expect the best £21k starting out. Been working minimum wage fucking call centre since I graduated last year

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>>84508083
>tfw keep running into posts like these and jordan b peterson
>all this synchronicity

>>84511016
>>84508083

>tfw have comfy engineering job that pays well

>tfw hate the absolute living hell out of it and all I wanna do is run a newspaper or at least be a journalist

What can I do bros?

>>84509460
good christian, god personally comes down from heaven to save his drowning son

>>84511072
get a life outside of work

i dont mean that as harsh as it sounds

>>84505698
The bathroom on the second floor isn't at the end of the hallway: it's between Lisa's and Bart's rooms.

>>84505698
Why do I have to go upstairs just to take a shit

>>84509077
Dude old people are hard as fuck to take care of. They are like 150lb babies that eventually need full time care in order not to fall over and die in their own urine, covered in pressure ulcers.

A nursing home that takes good care of him and let's him bang a bunch of other elderly women is the best thing for him, outside of at home care which costs a shit ton, more than Homer has.

>>84511072
start a wordpress or blogger or twitter

it's free

newspapers are ultimately dead but the format will live on forever on the web

buy a crane for your camera or phone and just start interviewing local people

you have to will yourself to become a journalist

you must do things a journalist would do to become one

just pick your idol and do what they do but with a modern flair

He's the person in charge of security at a nuclear power plant. In real life this is a 150-180k job at minimum.

He got in on the IPO for SNDS

>>84508277
I make $18/hr as an intern myself

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>im 23 and never had a job

I make 18 dollars as a waiter

>>84509925
maybe you have too many engineers... those wages are bad

>>84505698
Did you miss the Frank Grimes episode where they made fun of the absurdity of it all?

>>84505698
He was working at Burns' Churn and Burn, formerly Digger'

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>>84506425

>Socialists think this is okay

>>84505698
It was 1987.

>>84511701
>writers dont know how well nuclear power pays
>writers dont know much about nuclear power in general
checks out

>>84506292
Gen-Z detected

>>84508083
that was quite the downward spiral but I enjoyed the ride just the same

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>>84506425
Huh, I make $100 less net pay a week but only work 16 hours on two days.

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How did Al Bundy afford such a large, spacious home on the income of a lowly shoe salesman at the mall?

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>>84506524
>>84506570
>>84510227

>>84512910
>ancaps think roads pave themselves, streetlamps stay on autonomously, trashcans empty themselves, their garbage is taken away by magic...

>>84505698
He's in charge of a fucking nuclear power plant. That's going to be good money so stop posting the exact topic with the same picture you supreme faggot.
Smell sage and onion with your roast dinner you cock gobbler.

Also, American houses are sheds with shit pasted on the outside so they don't cost fortunes unless they are in a hipster area, mega fag.

>>84506292
Old white men who distract old people with social issues and religious bickering. Together with the young white men who distract young people with hi-tech toys and PREMIUM ORIGINAL CONTENT, they run the world.

>tfw full-time, manual labourer
>paid minimum wage
>no benefits

>rent is hyperinflated in my small city, landlords keep charging more and more despite making no changes since the 40's
>everything costs more because "we're isolated" (but not THAT isolated)
>Canadian telecoms charge through the nose for everything
>insane sales tax, income tax, property tax, and more
>electricity costs keep going up, and the government just sold off their shares; it's now privately owned

I envy boomers with every fiber of my being. Wish I could afford to own a home and support a family. Shit, I'd be happy if I could buy meat more than just for special occasions. This is truly thew worst timeline.

>>84514698

>anon actually thinks the majority of tax dollars go towards public works and not welfare

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>>84515114
...but no, muh welfare boogeyman is definitely why the infrastructure of our country is crumbling.

>>84509308
Knowing the consequences and finding them unacceptable doesn't make it not voluntary.

>>84505830
He works at a nuclear power plant. How the fuck is that a dead end job. It must pay great.

>>84515160

>$70 Billion for education
>$66 Billion for medicare
>$63 Billion for housing
>$29 Billion for social securiry

All welfare well above infastructure spending

>>84515382
so you're just going to ignore the fact that we spend more on our military than the next three highest spending nations combined? okay.

>education
>welfare
holy fucking shit

>>84515382
what about veteran's benefits?

>>84509460
He owned his own business and probably made some wise investments in the market, Ned is a pretty smart dude and doesn't blow it off on stupid shit like Homer.

>>84515160
If the US were 90% white or higher we'd be running surpluses.

>>84511438
>tfw 24 and got my first job in 8 years a few months ago
You can do it bro

>>84515382
>21%
>majority
looks like 6% is not enough for murrican education

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>>84515160
>no social security or other huge entitlements on the graph
Defense spending is also approved by the constitution although I agree we need to cut down on military spending.

>>84515160
The key point here is "discretionary spending"

Medicare and social security are not included in this chart, but cost just as much

>>84505698
>how can someone afford a $90k house in the midwest

Gee I dunno man

>>84515269
Every job where you are supposed to die in, it's a dead end job.

Also I have a house like that and I'm a lazy bastard.

>>84515455

That includes stuff like peoples legs getting blown off, not a anchor breeder from south of the border wanting free food and schooling for her herd

>>84515433

I thought this was about infastructure and welfare, but yes the military budget is more then likely inflated due to corruption... officials over spending on shitty equipment and research because they get treated to a month long vacation in Hawaii to hear the pitch.

Corruption aside though, the US needs a strong military for a dozen reasons. Namely they'd loose access to the South China Sea the second China knows American won't be able to stop them. The US also gets preferential trade deals all over the world because they provide security, cheap materials from Australia, Korea, Saudi Arabia etc

>>84507292
some brown haired people are born with blond hair that slowly turns brown

>>84515853
It's really sad seeing such a prestigious university being reduced to being the laughing stock of the internet.

>>84505698
being a baby boomer probably helped

>people unironically arguing that healthcare and education shouldn't be made accesible to all, regardless of their economical situation
takes a special breed of nigger to have so little empathy towards one's fellows

>>84515961
We already have universal K-12 and medicare you stupid commie, single payer would never work on a federal level here with 330 million (including 40-45% minority population) when they can't even get it to take off in Vermont and California.

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>>84515961
But how will poor little Ivanka afford to open more Chinese sweatshops if the big, mean government keeps taking her hard earned money?

>there are still people who see a story about Russia's meddling as part of a massive deep state operation hurting perceptions of the wealthy in America by dragging a basket of deplorables of a family of one into the international spotlight

Revolution soon, comrades.

>>84505698
It was the 90s

>>84516178
You already lost back in 1989-1991 you larping faggot

>>84509460
He was a pharmacist before he had the Leftorium, so that's why he could afford a house with a rumpus room, a panic room, and a secret Beatles memorabilia room.

>>84505698
wait why is the basement stair at the side of the house. The basement is under the garage?

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>>84515511
>doesn't buy insurance

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>>84516961
The Simpson house is rarely consistent.