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“The 1980s may well be the era of making do, doubling up with parents, buying a house with several people unrelated to you, making dollhouses livable, learning creative financing tactics, budgeting up to 40 percent of your gross income for shelter costs — or, yes, simply getting used to renting indefinitely,” the authors lament following the statistic that the average American home price reached an all-time high in May 1984 of $101,000. Pittsburgh then ranked 186th for housing costs, “just under the midpoint.” (Today, though still affordable by national comparison, Pittsburgh’s median home listing price is $255,000, with those in the market facing other obstacles to buying).”

Pittsburgh's 1985 "most livable" listing proves the more things change, the more they stay the same Take a trip with us to 1985 via Rand McNally’s Places Rated Almanac.