To think the baby boomer generation appears on another planet

[IncaAztec]

This weeks corkers from my DM (age 65). Have left me wondering about the baby boomer generation.

-Accusing me of taking from the state as we receive free infant school meals (?)
-Informing me how busy she is (with WI and history club all in one week). I told her to ask my friend who has 3 kids & 3 jobs before she tried that one.

Anyone else with any baby boomer comments to share?

I think you're being unreasonable in stereo-typing people of that generation.

I'm the daughter of a baby-boomer, I believe we're labelled as Generation X, and baby-boomers had it harder than we have. I also feel for my generation, having lived through major recessions, and for millennials, too. Each generation has it's own issues.

My mum was worrying about state pension recently. She was worried that the state pension won't go up in value anymore so her and dad would have to be careful with money. My mum and dad both have full state pensions plus private pensions and are mortgage free so I don't know why she thinks that not getting a pension rate rise would make much difference to them. She has admitted that she saves a lot each month so not sure why she thinks they will be on the breadline because they might not get a few extra quid a week.

yes - another boomer here who is sick to death of threads like this. I know how lucky I am - I own my own grotty little terrace house, I've had 3 weekends abroad in my whole life (and I was 40 before I had the first), I do have a car, and a bus pass, and a pension, and I get by. I have to do without things, I have to be careful about what I spend. Other people in my age group do have more money than me, I also know people a lot younger that me who are better off. It's just the way it is. But I'm pissed off with being told that all the worlds problems are the fault of my generation

Please stop stereotyping!!

Some BBs are better off, but most of us aren't. Some in public sector jobs have naice early pensions, but those of us in the private sector don't. Some of us may have our own houses, but we also paid 17% on our mortgages to get them, and went without ANY luxuries to do it! We couldn't afford a TV while buying our first house. Many BBs lost their homes due to negative equity and are STILL paying banks back.

ALL generations have pluses and minuses.

At least they look happy...

Dear god not this again 😕

As I said on the last thread (or hundred) that we had about this.. every single person moaning about what was and wasn't available "back then" would take full advantage if the same was offered now without a thought to what it might mean to future generations. There are no crystal balls, we can't predict what might happen in 50 yrs time and your grandparents didn't know either.

And if you have people in your lives who make stupid comments about working harder etc then either grow a backbone and tell them to shut up, or ignore and just get on with your own lives.

One thing that has definitely got worse over the years is the constant moaning about everything from people of all ages.

and constantly bring up the fact that interest rates were once 15% but seem to forget the damn house was only the same price as a modern nice car!!

In answer to that... do you have any idea what wages were like?! I'm a BB and my first job as a clerk in a Bank at age 16 paid me £386 per year! I haven't typed that incorrectly, that's £32 a month, so it's all relative isn't it?!

Well said nokids. It's very tedious isn't it

Yes.You sound like a typical boomer who whinges about how hard their life was and how morally virtuous they were whilst ignoring all the advantages they had like free education and affordable housing because they are entitled and over privileged and have no idea how lucky they were

She wasn't whingeing!
Free education? Big deal!... Hardly any of my friends went to university. We had to leave school at 15 or 16 because our parents needed us to contribute to the household expenses.
When I got married we moved into a small council flat in a rough area because you couldn't pick and choose where you lived. It took us years to be able to afford all our furniture. We didn't have credit cards and couldn't have afforded one if we could get one. We had one holiday, to Cornwall in 10 years.
We had no telephone, because we couldn't afford it! I couldn't afford to pay into a private pension so all I have is a state pension to look forward to, the date of which has been moved twice!
We didn't complain, it was just the way it was! But to be called bloody privileged to have been born in that time is a joke!

I agree Gottaget. I am so sick of these 'young' complainers. I DID go to university - the first in my family and one of only 3-4% of school leavers who did. I had to get a job to support myself there.

My first house was in East Ham - an unmodernised terraced house, with no indoor plumbing. Yep, that means the loo was outside, and no bath, shower or hot water. We sorted it out ourselves, working weekends and after work to fix it up. No TV either, as we couldn't afford it. Certainly no take-aways or meals out!

Thanks to successive governments shenanigans with pensions - I still have to work in my 60s. Do I feel privileged? No! I've worked bloody hard to get here.

But boomers took those advantages, used them up, then reused to pass them on because they wanted the best benefits for themselves rather than passing them on

Ha ha ha.... Oh yes, my generation absolutely hated our kids and grandkids and set out to ruin their lives! We were all focused on screwing them over...unlike young parents today who love their children and have Mumsnet to constantly post about how hard life is today despite being the best parents ever in the history of parenting

I think things ARE tough today. I would hate to be a young woman starting out today, but that doesn't mean life was a doddle when I was starting out.

I have to say that, looking back, life was a doddle for us. We saved up very quickly for our first house deposit. It took about 1 year. No problems getting a mortgage, even though in 1978 it was at 15% interest rate and 18% for the top up loan because the mortgage was restricted to 3 x DH's income. My 1 x income was the top up loan. We still had money over to go on holidays and buy a new car every so often. We had workmen in and did not do DIY. We had meals out etc and generally had a great life. Nearly all our friends did the same.

However, DH went to university. The first in his family. He started a business soon after we bought our first house and it was very successful. Sometimes life deals you intelligence and good fortune but you also have to grab your chances and not rely on others. People can do all of this now, although in London it is much more difficult due to stonking house prices. We had no money from parents at all, and we did not need it.

Where I live, two newly qualified teachers earning about £25,000 each can borrow £200,000 and get house. It is not impossible. Doctors can get an even better house. Lots of areas are still affordable for young people. Single people have always struggled financially for obvious reasons. Two decent salaries are a huge help. Also, if people of my generation have money to spare, they help their children. We have.

When we were young, no-one got a council house or flat. Little change there over the years. Families stood a better chance but certainly not young people who fancied one. Now some of those ex Council flats in London are worth £1m. Not bad if you were able to buy one.

I'm American so no free education for me. I've worked hard all my life, and I am still working. Happily, this hating Boomers crap that crops up on MN from time to time doesn't seem to be a feature of life in the US.

AIBU to think that people who start threads that are making sweeping statements about a whole generation of people based on something stupid that one person has said need to remember that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Where did all this awful animosity between generations come from? I hate it.

When we were young, paying our mortgage and raising our children, I wouldn't have dreamed of being resentful of my parents and in-laws for having paid off their mortgages, having savings and enjoying lovely foreign holidays. I always thought, good for them, this is their time to do what they want.

It's all so nasty now this 'guess what my mother/mother in law just said'

Happily, this hating Boomers crap that crops up on MN from time to time doesn't seem to be a feature of life in the US. Don't Americans just blame the poor for everything? or Mexicans? There are scapegoats the world over.

Blaming boomers for everything wasn't really a feature here either ... that was until Brexshit.

As a recent example, having just moved into a flat share in a recently decent area and as lets go, a reasonably decent flat my parent and step parent inquired about the rent.
Having told them what we are paying each, each month, the comment was 'oh it must be because of the area you have chosen.
No, dearest parents, that is what rent costs for any two bedroom flat in the city we are living in and it only because we did a sod of a lot of leg work and looked at a number of very yucky places that we managed to find something that is somewhat decent.
We could have been less discerning amd paid the same amount for a total dive. Because that is the rental market in the city we live in.

I was born in World War 2, so too old to be a baby boomer. Old enough for the bombs.....

How about having a go at my generation and leaving the Baby Boomers alone for change?

I don't think hatred of older generations is a new thing particularly.

They used to murder old women as witches - it was mainly women - many years ago, now they come on MN as make nasty remarks about them.

I do wonder what employment will be available for young children today in 20/30 years time. With AI, automation etc.

I'm not too worried about advances in technology and the robots taking all our jobs. Every time we get a new version of Windows, it's inferior to the last one and takes more hours to get the job done.

Jesus wept! Another boomer bashing thread. Here’s hoping your children don’t blame you and your generation for whatever trials their future holds.

I prefer to refer to objectionable, wealthy Baby Boomers as 'Smug Wealthy Retireds' :-P

Of course they 'Earned it' so the fact that younger people can work just as hard for their entire lives and never get to the same state doesn't matter! My parents are 60 but most definitely not 'Smug Wealthy Retireds' so it's not all baby boomers! Unfortunately that means I don't even get to inherit from a SWR!

Lol I get the "back in MY day we popped out children out in the house without drugs on the Tue and we're back to work on the wed" lmao.....no thanks.

Regards to political side....the government fucks most ppl off at some point just in different ways. No point blaming each other. Voting can be controlled and media was limited back then.