In 1990, the year the film was released, the
actual house from Home Alone was purchased for $875,000. Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago have determined that, at that price, the home was only affordable to the top 1% of Chicago households at the time.
To afford the house in 1990 (assuming they spent no more than 30% of their income on housing), the McCallister family would have needed a household income of about $305,000, which is approximately $665,000 in 2022 dollars.
The house last sold in 2012 for $1.58 million and again in early 2025 for $5.5 million.
So, I do happen to know that they made some changes to the house including building a full size basketball court two levels underground. However, making $665,000 is not enough to afford an $5million dollar house.
Read it again more closely. In 1990 in order for them to afford an $875,000 house, they would have needed an annual household income of $305,000 which is the 2025 equivalent of $665,000.
I’m mostly cool with it because they disclosed it was AI up front. Its also a summarization (vs OC), so even if it isn’t exactly correct it probably just mixed up a year/dollar value pairing at worst.
Yup, this (I feel) is one of the few areas where AI is valuable.
I’ve got a buddy who just got hired on at a large company as a software developer. Apparently their code base is so arcane and in such unusual frameworks that they recently fed all their documentation to an LLM and are using that to help onboard new employees (vs trying to have experts try to train up people personally).
While I think having a clean and clear codebase should have been their priority, patching it over with an AI teacher is far from the worst solution.
From Google AI:
So it’s unsourced and likely inaccurate.
There’s a good chance that google’s source for this is just a unsourced, unverified, random reddit comment
So, I do happen to know that they made some changes to the house including building a full size basketball court two levels underground. However, making $665,000 is not enough to afford an $5million dollar house.
Read it again more closely. In 1990 in order for them to afford an $875,000 house, they would have needed an annual household income of $305,000 which is the 2025 equivalent of $665,000.
Yeah, I know. I’m saying the new price is unaffordable for the new salary. Even for high salaries, the houses have out paced them.
Brave posting Ai content. Surprised you have more upvotes than downvotes with this crowd.
I’m happy to see things summarised by LLMs, so thanks for the details.
I’m mostly cool with it because they disclosed it was AI up front. Its also a summarization (vs OC), so even if it isn’t exactly correct it probably just mixed up a year/dollar value pairing at worst.
I did skim a bunch of articles first, all with the same info, but they were too long-winded or paywalled to link to. This summary seemed just right…
Yup, this (I feel) is one of the few areas where AI is valuable.
I’ve got a buddy who just got hired on at a large company as a software developer. Apparently their code base is so arcane and in such unusual frameworks that they recently fed all their documentation to an LLM and are using that to help onboard new employees (vs trying to have experts try to train up people personally).
While I think having a clean and clear codebase should have been their priority, patching it over with an AI teacher is far from the worst solution.
Must be the time of day, as I’ve disclosed before and been downvoted to oblivion. This place is exhausting at times.
To think I found people more cynical than me, now that’s impressive.