The Swinging Sixties?

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I don't remember saying there are no jobs around these days, of course there are and many folks are well off and can afford a house and to travel a lot. I was brought up in the 50's and life was genuinely hard for people with little money about and there was austerity as an after effect of ww2. Then the 60's came along and with it came a big change culturally and financially and a feeling of optimism.

People of my generation tended to have careers and stayed with a company until retirement and now enjoy a good pension. All that has changed and although there are more jobs around these days, having a steady long term job seems not a feature of the modern jobs market. Changing jobs every 2 years or so and having gap years travelling may suit the young and single, but those with families and mortgages would suffer as their finances are hit.

 

Millenials don't buy houses, they rent, mortgages tie them down too much. If they do buy, they rent one out to pay for the rent elsewhere.

I agree about the pensions thing, but we have to view that in the context of current longevity estimates. When these good pensions were designed, they assumed that folk would be dead at, or before, 70, not at 87, or beyond.

There has been, on average, a transfer of wealth towards the older generations, won't argue with that.

 

You was a wiggler in your dads under swinger then

 

The sixties was a great decade to be born in, but anyone who's anyone knows the 70s was THE best decade to grow up in

 

One does, on occasion, like to slum it.

 

I think that I owned that outfit.

 

Then we swung on to the seventies

 

That’s the interior of @Merlin Cat ’s Landmark isn’t it?

 

Ahhhhh, the ‘Good Old Days’ I was born in the 50s and times were tight, but in the sixties it did seem to get gradually better and partially fuelled by new music. This seems to have also gradually got bettererer and bettererer right up to now The strange thing is that we all look back on our good old days and think that today is not quite as good, but the truth of it is that the crappy days now, they’ll very soon become someone’s good old days in fifty or sixty years time

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,, almost hard to believe innit

 

So you been up her stairs have you