Generation X here.
I think my generation was very lucky. We had good education, student grants still (the loans were just starting to come out). House prices were lower and plentiful (not BTL really outwith the cities when I was young).
I did graduate from uni start of nineties so straight into a recession so first few jobs were crap but eventually a few years later I started to get better jobs. Wasn't easy though.
I think alot of children brought up in sixties/seventies had mistreatment from parents that was largely ignored (thanks mum and dad). Hitting was okay and parents could be abusive and violent and there didn't seem to be anywhere to turn to as a child. Nobody batted an eye and it was viewed fine to treat your kids how you wanted. It still felt like adults were very important and kids should be seen and not heard. That may just have been my experience though (both parents with poor mental health brought up during WW2)
I am very grateful to have made it into Generation X and not later. I grew up without phones or computers but had first mobile about 20 (the brick kind that only made calls) and we didn't have internet at home (dial up) till I was about 28. I feel that was the best of both worlds. We got our teenage years not being filmed or being addicted to social media but we were young enough to easily learn internet/smart phones etc. I used telephone banking in my early twenties which was the 'new thing' and then later on of course internet banking with ease.
Our boyfriends as teenagers were the usual 'boys trying it on' but thankfully were mostly restricted to top shelf magazines and the odd video while their brains were developing. I feel very worried for young girls today surrounded by all this violent online porn.
I also seemed to have timed it well - women were just starting to go to university and not just straight into being nurses/secretaries/shop workers etc (not that there is anything wrong with these jobs just more options were opening up). Our men were still protective and manly enough but very much 'women need to have orgasms too' and 'we need to share housework too' generation.
So apart from abusive parents I think I was lucky.
Didn't stop me making plenty of mistakes of my own (divorce, poor property choices etc, destructive choices. This was more to do with my upbringing though rather than the way the world was.
Oh and we also had plenty of doctor appointments/ NHS dentists etc although I suppose medical advances were less. As a child I cracked my head open falling off at the playground. Mum took me to local gp surgery where a nurse stitched my head up. No xrays or MRIs done. Sent home with stitches in head and that was that. Blood pouring out back of head and nobody seemed to think I perhaps should go to hospital which to me seems quite strange. Or perhaps that was just my mum not being very good. She couldn't drive and had to get a neighbour to take us to GP surgery. I had a free brace on teeth but got it too late and teeth were better than before but still quite squint and gappy. Nobody seemed bothered (again that might just have been my parents not being great).
I do feel sorry for the youngsters. I do think they have easier childhoods in some ways and more medical advances of course but high house prices and online porn is not what I would want for my children.
My parents had a council house (which as a child you don't really think about or appreciate). I remember it was freezing cold with ice on inside of windows but of course as a kid you just think it's a big adventure. We also had the blackouts and had to use these lamps with oil of some kind in them. Must have been a giant pain to the adults but a great adventure for us. No microwaves, no dishwasher, mum had top loader washing machine, no tumble dryer, no central heating and we had to get dressed huddled in front of the livingroom electric fire.
Lots of chest infections as a kid probably from the damp cold house. Parents who smoked round us and no seatbelts in cars for us in the back. In fact we often were in the boot like where dogs go nowadays. We were booted out in the morning and nobody worried about us. Food was pretty bad. Mum was stay at home housewife but we lived on tinned hotdogs, scotch pies and our vegetables were few and far between. Again this may just have been my childhood. We did get home made soup and mince with vegetables. Very little real meat or fish. We were all skinny and hungry although I do remember getting an egg followed by a banana for lunch so I guess that was healthy on those days.