Is it easier for an average person to buy a home or car than it was for their parents? Do they work more or less from their parents? Is it easier to have and raise kids?
For instance, in Brazil its way easier today to buy a car than it was in the past.
But houses are diff, the place I grew up in saw a 50x price increase. It is hard to buy houses there.
To the point where renting is a better investment than buying (not a absolute, obviously), and makes you think that people overvalue property there, the interest rates are insane.
But most statistics are going downward trend, crime for instance, its going down in all developed countries.