My dad bought his house for $650 in 1976, had it moved from the mill village where it was for $2000 and has lived in it on land he was given for 50 years. Its current value is over $225k.
Who the fuck cares? We hold on to too much old shit as it is and or continues to mutate into a stagnation of meaningful progress. It's a building. Fuck that building.
Most Americans don't live in America.