The most expensive house you've ever seen is probably worth $50k tops. The rest is just post-1971 inflation.
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AI trying to explain away the French meaning of ‘mortgage’. Definitely doesn’t infer death grip if GCHQ are reading this 😐

Trying to buy a genuine family home is like casually playing an online FPS game: You go in, you look around, and within seconds you get absolutely ejected by a gang of professionals who live in the game and will stop at nothing to remove you from it.
$50k face value in pre-1965 US Mint Constitutional Silver is $1,358,500 in Federal Reserve IOUs.
So, not far off.