[donquixote99]

On the one hand we have data used and relied-upon by the entire financial industry. On the other we have:
annecdote: one couple's reported decision
One price point, not sourced or dated.
A data-free reference to shelter-cost.
A data-free reference to closings in the reastaurant industry. (Hint--look at openings too.)
A claim that people sense inflation.
A data-free claim that employment data is questionable.

Basically, seems to me all you have is subjective distrust of institutions, in this case the ones doing official econometrics. Lot of that distrust going around, but I am not persuaded you can justify it. I think instead you have been led to distrust by liars seking to exploit such distrust politically.