Boomers can’t downsize
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Anonymous
They also still think they're 20. They never want to age gracefully and leave the scene. |
Anonymous
Exactly. There are so many millennials because there are so many boomers, which is why the term “echo boom” was created. So if your parents are boomers, and you’re posting broadside attacks on boomers, do you hate your own parents? I think most of this anti-boomer posting is from Gen Z — or from millennials who were abused or who had non-boomer parents. |
Anonymous
Nope. Millennial poster here. Both of my parents were boomers. But not Trumpers. Never abused. I just look at the state of the country and realize that their generation contributed to most of the current problems we find ourselves in. Things are unaffordable - healthcare, real estate, education, and a middle class lifestyle largely because of their selfishness and the decisions that they supported. Oh, and our environment has also been wrecked. But thanks for the inheritence, I guess. It's cold comfort given the country you've left to us. |
Anonymous
so you also blame your parents? |
Anonymous
I blame the whole generation. You're a selfish lot and left those coming after you with a helluva bill to pay. |
Anonymous
I’m a boomer. With five millennial kids. So pray tell what your boomer parents actually did or didn’t do that is an expression of their selfishness — so I can avoid it myself, or at least stop doing it. |
Anonymous
Np. Destructive Materialism, at the expense of everything else. That’s the ethos of the Boomer generation and what they will be remembered for. |
Anonymous
Shouldn’t the same question be asked in reverse of boomers - why are you posting nasty attacks on your kids generation? I see a whole lot of offended boomers on this thread taking offense to every last comment. Shouldn’t the boomer generation be more mature than the millennial generation based on their age? |
Anonymous
If you’re not materialistic then you don’t have to pay any “bills”. |
Anonymous
Yep and start with canceling cell, WiFi and cable service that burns coal 24-7. Then stop using A/C. Those things are destroying the earth. |
Anonymous
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Yet when boomers sell it is idiot younger people doing the bidding wars and driving up prices.
Older people don’t want bidding wars and put bigger down payments. I work at a bank and in 2023 our 5/5 and 7/3 adjustable mortgages with lower rates the under 50 crowd is using Older people remember 1970s and early 1980s sky high high rates and don’t want them. The under 50 crowd tore down every small home in a good area in DC and will complain when 70 nowhere to downsize too. |
Anonymous
I’m a late boomer of 1963, but I identify as a Gen X. The only thing I know about Vietnam, JFK, space exploration, civil rights movement or Woodstock I learned in a book or movie. I am space challenger crash, BET, AIDS, Reagan/Clinton, Desert Storm, Iranian Hostage takeover, and the CIA drugs for guns Nicaraguan Contra crisis into the African American communities. All that you describe, this Boomer did not receive. Healthcare has always been unaffordable if you were poor or not in a union. The emergency room was the primary care doctor for the flu. Everyone didn’t automatically get braces like the millennials seem to have received. Higher Education was also only for the rich before Pell grants and subsidized loans. My student loan was 9%, that I paid off gradually over the years. I wasn’t given the opportunity to do public service in exchange for student payoff. Had the opportunity been available, I would have attended my first choice university and ran up the debt. Instead, I choice a university that 90% of DCUM would scoff. Ouch, and I graduated into a recession as the USA and the USSR entered into an ARMS race. Millennials have had ridiculous free money or lower than low interest rates for more than twenty-years to purchase homes and cars. In 1990, the mortgage rates were between 13 and 18%. Oh, and I don’t believe we had the special first time home buyers programs that benefit the current new buyers. My money allowed me to purchase what I often called a POS fixer-upper. Today, I understand first time young buyers require 2500+ sq ft, turn-key, spacious state of the art kitchen and baths in the best school districts homes with 3.5 interest rates. And yes the environment took a hit during white flight when most of your parents and grandparents ran from the cities. How is that different when so many posters in the real estate section of DCUM are looking for big homes away from the cities to WFH while emitting gas and carbon as they drive to conduct all their errands and play. How are you millennials any different from the boomers you despise, especially with your entitlements. If anything, you’re carbon copy’s who have not fully matured into it, but you getting there. |
Anonymous
Do you have a laptop, cellphone and cable tv? How often do you pick up a new pair of shoes? Do you eat out often or do you cook your every meal? |
Anonymous
With age come privileges. |
Anonymous
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NP.
I'm a millenial and raise all the same concerns previously mentioned with my boomer parents. The only response I ever get in typical boomer fashion is "well, I didn't vote for that!" 
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