Inflation is situational.
Refined petroleum products costs are high... but it hasn't really resulted in the masses cutting back their usage; so really a non-problem.
Food prices are rising... but I have only seen a few think of growing crops rather than turfgrass; so really a non-problem.
Even on window sales... a long term decision... I still have not seen any amount of concern for energy efficiency as it relates to heating; nor have we see new housing return to the more compact norms of the past.
Families of four use to live in homes of around 1000-1200 square feet in the 40s/50s, and now retired couples are ''downsizing'' to 3000 square feet or more.
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