What do you remember most about the 70's?

[hunter]

174. I graduated from college without student loans.

I used to feel bad borrowing money I could easily pay back working in the summer.

I got state grants sometimes for things like textbooks.

One year in university my rent for a scummy shared student apartment was $80. I had a part time semi-skilled job maintaining similar scummy student housing for eight dollars an hour. The guy I worked for was an asshole. One apartment building he managed only rented to women. The water heater went out early one Friday and he sent me out to tell all his tenants it wouldn't be fixed until Monday. He was too cheap to pay weekend licensed plumber's rates, but not so cheap as to ask me to bypass the leaking water heater with cold water. I could have replaced the water heater myself that day, but he'd long been on the county building inspector's shit list, sometimes with good reason.

Yep, ten hours labor a month paid my rent. An hours labor filled the gas tank of my old Toyota. Student fees were a little over $300.

But maybe more delicate people today might not want to experience some of the things I did.