I wonder if there's any way to encourage would-be-married couples to buy apartments rather than houses. It seems to me that the expectation for every would-be-married couple is that they gotta have the house and picker-fence, as if it is chiseled on stone like a 11th commandment. I think this is unrealistic as well as untrue - I know lots of married European couples who are perfectly happy and live in apartments - often for their entire lives. However, I might be unrealistic here, since as Mr. Sailer said almost all women - deep down - want to have a house (the implication being that if one man isn't able to afford this, then she'll move onto somebody else). Needless to say, because of the austerity that almost all Americans will be experiencing in the near future, there are a lot of young women who are going to end up as spinsters because of such expectations.