re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The house I grew up in cost my parents $14K
The house we bought in 2011 cost $18,000 (including closing costs). When it was first built in 1914, it was sold according to the abstract for 20 twenty-dollar gold pieces.
The price of the house when we bought it was the same price in twenty ounces of gold in 2011.