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?

There is a lot of real boomer-hatred on another forum I visit, but the most vitriolic seems to come from people whose parents are either too thick or wilfully ignorant to realise how certain things have changed - particularly the affordability of housing. And they think everybody else's older relatives are the same.

From some of the posts there, anyone would think there had been a political party called Let's-Keep-House--Prices-So-High-That-Our-Kids-Will-Never-Be-Able-To-Afford-One! - and that every boomer that was ever born had gleefully voted for it.

I feel sorry for anyone who can't afford a house and is stuck renting, but most of these people aren't doing anything about it. If they could afford to buy they would keeping prices as high as ever. You don't see most of them campaigning for affordable housing. So what will the next generation have to say to them?

Those aren't baby boomer comments but normal comments.

She is correct, if you take advantage of the infant free meals than you are taking from the state.

The busy comment is not different from millions of others on here that don't work but claim to be too busy to do anything else. It's one of those things you just go at and ignore. It's not an age thing.

I am not sure anything changes much. Even in Shakespeare's day some of the young and the old complained about each other. It was always like this. It is true that taking infant free meeals is taking from the state. I always paid school fees so did not take a state school palce from the state as my parents did for me. These are just facts but I don't think anyone can be blamed from taking what they are entitled to we all pay more than enough tax as it is so take what you are entitled to.

The busy thing is obviously silly of her writing as someone your mother's age who works at least 6 days a week full time and longer hours than most mumsnetters half my age.

Different times create different circumstances, you can't say any generation has had it easier than another because it is just different

^ This.

I think it’s only certain people who think that way.

My mum and in laws have never given any indication that they think we have it easy.

I think every generation has its challenges. Mine is working full time while bringing up a child (with full help from a hands on partner). Previous generations woman were allowed to be raped in wedlock. I’m so glad I’m part of this generation

My friend is a boomer like me, made different choices though (holidays, living abroad a lot, fast cars and unreliable men - spent the lot and enjoyed it) - she is now bemoaning the fact that she will be renting in retirement, has no money and no private pension...

It is not just the millennials who can't afford to buy (and moan about it).

yes I am not sure it does much good turning generations against each other. I work 50% of the year to pay tax to help the less fortunate and everything over for the rest of the year goes to my children for university fees or housing (once I have fed myself etc and paid for some family holidays). I feel happiest of all about not being ill. A lot of women my age (50s) are sick. it is certainly frustrating for people who want to buy but have to rent. All my family always rented until about the 1930s when one set of grandparents only were able to buy a very small terraced house in the NE which today sell for about £60k (and that was partlky because my grandfather who left school at 12 worked his way up to become in a small way a local estate agent and valuer so presumably got wind of the property and had learned a bit about how to buy but everyone else rented and my parents rented for the 10 years they both worked full time putting off babies for a decade in order to buy before I was born whilst they still had 2 full time salaries).

I don't agree with sweeping generalisations about all Boomers, my own mother born in 1945 still lives in the council house she wouldn't buy despite massive discounts offered under the hideous right to buy scheme. However I've got no time for the ones who vote Tory and agree with austerity-led polices. They, specifically, are the ones pulling up the ladder and screwing over the younger generation.

And presumably those of us who work full time and pay an awful lot of tax when many women our age don't rork at all and could if they chose, I hope are admired as we are helping the young and old alike which we might instead be sitting in the sun in the park on a lovely day like this.