I'm a tail-end Boomer.
i'm sick and tired of the assumption that we all had it easy. The people I see complaining about Boomers are often relatively privileged middle class people who had a comfortable upbringing and whose parents benefited from the rise in housing prices in the south.
Many of the rest of us had rather a different experience. My dad survived the war, became a coalminer and saved up until he could buy a small ground-floor flat. (One bedroom. Inside loo, but no actual bathroom.)
We lost it in 1972 to a compulsory purchase order, so that the council could build a car park. Dad was given £400 in compensation - the equivalent of just over 5k. He had no hope of buying a new property by then and we finished up in council housing.
My mother left school at 14 and was in service for the next 13 years. Thereafter, she worked in factories. She spent a great deal of her time caring for elderly relatives, not only her parents. We didn't have the same access to social services then.
My parents encouraged me to work hard at school. The one area where I do see myself as privileged compared with younger folk is that I had free tuition and a means-tested grant.
I managed to buy my own 2 bed house. Paying the mortgage took about everything I had. I still have the same carpets that were here when I moved in in '86. I've just had to replace/improve a little at a time. Most of my furniture is second-hand.
I'm seeng younger people expecting to move into property that's in "move-in" condition, rather than being prepared to do things a bit at a time. It's just a different outlook, I guess.
Each generation has its own challenges. I've no doubt that when the Millenials are elderly younger folk will be complaining about them and suggesting that they've had it too easy.