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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.

Where in the world did he buy a $40k house in '88? Serious question. I bought my first house not 3 yrs later, and it was 3x more.

Oklahoma City, OK LMAO which obviously is a pit but, they were available

boomer

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.

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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.

Where in the world did he buy a $40k house in '88? Serious question. I bought my first house not 3 yrs later, and it was 3x more.

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

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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

Anonymous wrote:I am in the middle of the dates you gave. I feel embarrassed by some boomers disrespect for younger generations and minimization of the problems they are inheriting from us … however, I am not sure whether some of their worst behavior (biggest demo for Trump, quick to believe crazy conspiracy theories and deny science around climate change and pandemic) is specific to boomers or just part of being older and out of touch.

My views often align more with younger people on many issues but I am socially conservative in other ways. These generational nick names are just labels.

It’s not just boomers who believed all of Trump‘s lies. I see a lot of younger GenX and millennials also scarily believed his lies. All those proud boys and oath keepers… They were not in their early 60s, 70s 80s and 90s. It’s not age, it’s racism, fear, and Fox news.

I was born in 61 as the oldest of 5. While my dad was technically a WW II vet (drafted right out of HS) but it was May 1945 as the war was ending. My parents didn't marry until 1960. I've never considered myself a Boomer.

I am a boomer and my sister born in 1965 is gen X. But she has one foot in boomer mentality and one in gen X. It’s interesting.

If you or your male peers(if you’re a woman) were not eligible for the Vietnam draft, you are not a boomer. So, those born in the late 50s and early 60s are not boomers because they were too young to be drafted.

Everybody doesn’t have to fit into a named generational cohort. The named groupings make sense when the group has a shared experience in common; they don’t make sense when they are just set up as “everyone born from this year to that year is the same group.”

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

I really hate hate hate you. Why would you hate an entire generation of people? Generalize much? Get over yourself. Stupid hate filled scumbag. And I’m no where near being a boomer myself. Just hate all you haters.

dp So do you throw rocks and live in a glass house? I don't hate anyone btw.

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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.

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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?"

Just like 9/11 for gen x

Anonymous wrote:‘61 here. Technically a Boomer, but I don’t feel like either a Boomer or a Gen Xer. Can’t relate to either.

62' here and i feel the same. on dcum, i tried to defend boomers against boomer haters though. just for the fun of it

Why does anyone think these generational groups would all be identical or have anywhere near the same experiences. Especially the older generations when social media was not around.

I understand they have many of the same life experience but just as many life experiences, including most that really matters, are different.

And to those who hate an entire generation? You are ridiculous.