So when were things good then?

[Wouldcou]

Growing up there was the credit crunch, then austerity, then Covid and now cost of living.

Im only 33, when were things good then? A small patch in the 90’s?

I’ve heard about the joblessness of the 80’s, the 4 day week of the 70’s…

What is it suppose to be then?

The Blair and Brown years were pretty awesome

Do they have the same level of education as you do? Are there now more employment options in NE than in your youth?

It’s all relative I think. I grew up in the seventies and eighties. My dm was little in WWII with the Blitz etc. My adult dc have got today with what we have now. But amazing advances in healthcare.

But it’s not much comfort to my dc to say “well at least it’s not the Great Depression/you’re not sat in the Trenches/doodlebugs aren’t falling on you!”

70s and late 90s/00s

My children are also much better off than we were at their age. We've also given them so much more than we ever were and paid for their university, while I had to get loans and pay them off. I still couldn't buy a house in the area where my eldest has their home. They are better traveled. Very different lives to us. I did have my children in my 20s and they don't have any.

I think things were great when you were in your twenties. It doesn't really matter which decade that was.
You are old enough to earn but not old enough to have responsibility. What's not to like?

I think there is a lot of truth on that

Not for me, life in UK felt much more positive for me when I was in my late 30s Which would have been the late 1990s early 2000s (until the 2008 crash). In my 20s we had the early 1990s recession, I was a young nurse in the NHS and lots of my colleagues were having their houses resposessed as interest rates soared.

This.
I think 90s, early 00 were ok/good but I thought things would get better.
Now I don't think they will.

The Blair and Brown years. House prices v salary only 3 x income. Lots of cultural stuff happening and great bands. Cheap travel boomed. There seemed to be lots of jobs about but that might just be in my sector. It was a really great time.

It was in the Blair/ Brown years that the house prices=3xwages equation was destroyed, due to their disastrous buy to let policies, the continuation of right to buy, and financial deregulation inviting dodgy foreign money into London. Blair did nothing to help us and was only interested in making himself rich as a buy to let landlord himself. Quite the reverse, landing us with PFI bills and the rentier economy. He betrayed the working classes and set the path to destruction.

His time also saw the final destruction of the public sector with responsibilities passed down the chains, restrictions on wages, middle qualifying posts scrapped and cuts, cuts, cuts. Called ‘efficiency savings’ but cuts nonetheless, showing what his period was really all about - lies and smoke and mirrors. All enforced by change positivity reeducation.

Late 90s were bloody brilliant- economically and culturally. To be fair I was a very young adult at the time and had zero responsibilities but my parents seemed pretty happy during those years too.

For me it was mid 80s to mid 90s. Coming out of the "dark" years of the 70s of all the strikes, power cuts, 3 day week, etc. Vibrant High Streets, plentiful pubs and discos, little "street" crime, lots of job/career opportunities, cheap and comprehensive adult education system, lots of hope and optimism etc. It was early to mid 90s when I started to see negative changes, pubs starting to close, High street starting to suffer due to out of town retail parks/supermarkets, rise of anti social behaviour, and general loss of optimism.