What were urban/suburban lifestyles like?
Suburban lifestyles in the 30’s was mostly hard, hard work to make ends meet. People that owned farms at least could count on eating and a lot of the workers on these farms were migrants looking for employment. These were not easy times for anyone that was a blue collar worker. Urban lifestyles were equally as hard. Jobs were very hard to come by and the really needy were helped by City Relief supplying them with chits for food and clothing. Houses, for those who could afford them. ranged in and around $2000. My family rented mostly because we just did not have any extra money. We paid $8.00 a month rent for a two story house. Farms were oftimes leased and sometimes owned. To price these homes would naturally depend on the acreage. Itis hard for me to give you comparisons because lifestyles in this decade were not even close to what we enjoy today.
