AIBU to think things are just not "nice" anymore

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Dh and I have been lucky the last few years all the talk of financial problems etc just haven't affected us. We live in a sort of bubble really, self employed in a business that hasn't been affected and I know we have been very lucky so I'm putting that disclaimer first since this is AIBU after all!
I also don't know that much about politics , I vote but I don't get heavily involved so this isn't about that.

However, the last year especially it just feels like the world is now unfriendly, I have been verbally abused on buses for having too many children, I have had had terrible service from people on officialdom , there seems to be a undercurrent of unpleasantness which I hadn't noticed before.

Is the world more unfriendly now or am I just getting old?

I would say yes you are right but my faith in humanity was restored just lately thanks to two lovely girls from London.
Was on the tube and the doors closed before my dh & dc could get on, i don't live in London and it was a very frightening experience for me. But these two girls calmed to down and got of the train with me and helped me contact my dh.
But overall the above isn't an overall description of the public of late, unfortunetly.

People have watched me struggle folding my pram with shopping on the bus whilst tutting at me and whilst the driver started to speed off.
People don't hold doors open much anymore.
Please and thankyou seems to have gone out the window, especially at the school gates when i have let others past.

I think the best thing we can do as people is be polite and kind ourselves and hope to gain the same in return.

Set up a media culture where people are encouraged to think that the old, the disabled, the forrin, the benefits claimants, the poor, the ones with more than 1 kid have more than 'you' have - and this is what happens. YANBU

Exactly ^^

Hate crime against any type of disability is at record levels. Lead by a culture of negative stereotyping and pitting social 'groups' against one another. People are resorting to that last retreat of Toryism, making sure you're alright and trampling over others to get what you need. Saw it under Thatcher, her policies influence today's policies and the attitude is back.

'There is no such thing as society'

I can't say I have noticed an increase in particular.

We are in c London, every day cars stop for us, bus drivers wait, people on tubes give up seat for toddlers. Old folk comment on good behaviour, or laugh and reminis about bad. Doors are held open, and children welcomed into restaurants.

Sure te occasional person, but hasn't there always been

It's the Mail and the Cutz, I tell you......