If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.

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Anonymous wrote:GenXer.

And I could finally afford to buy my first house in 1998 for 100k when interest rates started to go down.

The only people I know who bought houses early in life went into the trades directly from high school at age 18 back in the 80s and worked for a few years til they bought houses in their mid 20s.

That’s why I said my 1963 dad is a boomer not an Xer! He had the financial advantages of boomers.

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1960, actually almost 1961 as I was born Dec 31, 1960.
I never felt like a boomer. Boomers were late teens or older during the 1960's.

-The moon walk was a big deal.
-Don't remember JFK or RFK assassination. I remember MLK assassination due to the extreme riots in DC. Dad was taking a CPA class in DC proper and he managed to make it home through the riots and through fires and gunshots to our home in Bowie.
-Polyester clothing was big in the 1970's.
-Electronic calculators were very expensive and rare in the late 1970's. In high school we had to do all calculations with slide rules and the last year of chemistry in 12th grade we could finally use an electronic calculator.
-Our computer programming class in college was Basic and Pascal with bits and bytes on cards.
-College assignments were done on typewriters.
-Long distance phone calls were very expensive.
-We were free range kids during the 1970's and road
our bikes everywhere.

Graduating from college in 1982 dumped me into the midst of a recession. Most of my college graduates from the University of Delaware got jobs at the Chrysler assembly plant in Newark or trained to be dealers at newly opened Atlantic City. These jobs paid top dollar. I ended up with a minimum wage job with my newly minted college degree.
My sister graduated 5 years later from U of Penn Wharton School. She also had to take a minimum wage job.

We were not boomers. I've never understood all of the ate on boomers. Boomers really led the change in women's rights.

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Anonymous wrote:My 1963 and 1964 parents are boomers. The 63 is more chill and laid back than the 64 but they had the leg up that boomers had of cheap housing, affordable college, etc and were able to easily build wealth which to me is the signifier of boomers.

WTF? 64 here. Still paying student loans. Bought my first house at 39. I don't have any clue who you are referring to.

Ditto only born in ‘70. A lot of GenXers lost a lot when the housing market collapsed and some of those came out of college in a recession.

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Anonymous wrote:My 1963 and 1964 parents are boomers. The 63 is more chill and laid back than the 64 but they had the leg up that boomers had of cheap housing, affordable college, etc and were able to easily build wealth which to me is the signifier of boomers.

WTF? 64 here. Still paying student loans. Bought my first house at 39. I don't have any clue who you are referring to.

Ditto only born in ‘70. A lot of GenXers lost a lot when the housing market collapsed and some of those came out of college in a recession.

Which is why my 1963 dad ISNT YOU. He’s not an Xer, like I keep saying!

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Anonymous wrote:My 1963 and 1964 parents are boomers. The 63 is more chill and laid back than the 64 but they had the leg up that boomers had of cheap housing, affordable college, etc and were able to easily build wealth which to me is the signifier of boomers.

WTF? 64 here. Still paying student loans. Bought my first house at 39. I don't have any clue who you are referring to.

Dunno what to tell you. My dad was bought a $40,000 house in 1988 when he was 25 years old. The mortgage was mere hundreds of dollars. He was able to do that consistently through the 90s. Obviously your circumstances were different. But my dad isn’t the outlier of his cohort.

Wow! Cheap house. My Parents bought a house in Grosse Pointe Michigan in 1979 that cost 125,000 at the time

You were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. My mom’s house in Detroit never appraised more than 30k to this day.

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Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1964. My parents did not fight in World War II. My dad was only 10 years old when the war ended in 1945 and my mom was only 4.

I don’t relate to the baby boomers and I’m not quite a Gen X either. Although if I need to choose, I relate more to Gen X. My favorite decade of music is the 1990s.

Yes. That’s the point that people don’t seem to get. The war ended in 1945. People born in the 60s were born 15 to 25 years after the war ended. In those days it was common for people to get married young and start having kids early,. So if you were in the war at your youngest, 18 in 1945 you would been 33 in 1960. So some kids were definitely born to parents of the war, that generation, but many others were not as they would’ve been too young to be a war vet. My dad actually was in Vietnam as he worked for the government and he was born in the 1930s. I was born in 1964 so I’m supposed to be a boomer but I cannot relate to the boomer experience at all. While not a soldier, my dad‘s war experience was Vietnam not World War II

I think people dismiss the fact that the Korean War generation also produced Boomers.

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Anonymous wrote:Born in 1962 and definitely, a Gen Xer. Much more in common with that group, although I'm technically a boomer.

Me too. I have very little in common with boomers.

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Anonymous wrote:GenXer.

And I could finally afford to buy my first house in 1998 for 100k when interest rates started to go down.

The only people I know who bought houses early in life went into the trades directly from high school at age 18 back in the 80s and worked for a few years til they bought houses in their mid 20s.

That’s why I said my 1963 dad is a boomer not an Xer! He had the financial advantages of boomers.

I am the pp and was also born in 1963. My cousin's who were born around the same time and went into trades had more of the advantages of boomers.

I graduated from college and then grad school, so had to pay back loans and start my career in a recession, more like Gen X.

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Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!

Hate will kill you.

No, I will live long enough to see the last Boomer die so I can piss on their grave.

If you were born in 1964 then you are technically a boomer.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baby%20boomer

Wrong. Read the wiki article on Gen X.

Demographers William Strauss and Neil Howe rejected the frequently used 1964 end-date of the baby-boomer cohort (which results in a 1965 start-year), saying that a majority of those born between 1961 and 1964 do not self-identify as boomers, and that they are culturally distinct from boomers in terms of shared historical experiences. Howe says that while many demographers use 1965 as a start date for Generation X, this is a statement about fertility in the population (birth-rates which began declining in 1957, declined more sharply following 1964) and fails to take into consideration the shared history and cultural identity of the individuals. Strauss and Howe define Generation X as those born between 1961 and 1981.

Seriously? You are citing a wiki entry as an authority? You are a Boomer, person born in the early 60s. I get your shame, but that’s just your burden to bear.

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I’m a Gen-Xer (1972), DH is technically a Boomer but doesn’t act/feel like one (1963). Both of our sets of parents are Boomers (his parents had him young)

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

You beat me to eat. I did not know who Cobain was until after he committed suicide. I agree with the poster about the Michael Jackson and "Thriller - Billy Jean" remembrance.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

Ah. St. Elmo's Fire and Purple Rain. I agree, the people born between 60 and 64 are the forgotten. We are neither Boomer or Gen X. When I think of Boomers, I think they are all eligible for retirement and will receive a full pension and social security. I am not retirement age, but technically a Boomer. It's all artificial caterlouging by someone with great marketing abilities.

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Anonymous wrote:Born in 1962 and definitely, a Gen Xer. Much more in common with that group, although I'm technically a boomer.

Me too. I have very little in common with boomers.

Same. Definitely an Xer.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny how many people responding aren’t born between ‘60 and ‘64. I was born in 61 and always considered myself a boomer. I think the defining moment for our generation was the moon walk. I remember my family gathered around the TV watching it in awe and every boomer I know remembers a similar experience. I graduated from college into a recession and many of us late boomers have struggled to achieve all the milestones of adult life. My parents were Greatest Generation and my children are millenials. I think we’re all nice, hardworking people.

I was born in 1963 and the only moonwalk I remember is Michael Jackson's Moonwalk.

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The main point is that people born 1961-65 did not give a shit about the draft or the Vietnam War, so they were not Boomers.

This isn't true at all. I was born in '61 and my older brother, born in 1954, was drafted in 1971 or 72. He applied and was granted conscientious objector status and it was a prolonged and painful process that had a big impact on our whole family.

(shrug) I was a kid in the 1960s. I had friends with older siblings. Nobody ever talked about the draft or the war.

If you yourself didn't have any older siblings who were drafted or might have been drafted, then from your child's point of view, of course "nobody ever talked about the draft or the war."

Pay attention. Not even my friends who did have older siblings talked about it.

Why do you think that is, considering the war only ended in 1975? Were you in an affluent neighborhood where young men could avoid the draft?

The last draft was 1972. If you were born in 1962, you were ten years of age for the last draft call. How many ten-year olds were thinking about getting a draft letter eight years in the future?