Do keep up Muddy…
I was born in 1957 and my brother in 1947 and I think he’s lived a more typical Boomer life than me
Ten year gap because he was an end of the war baby, they lived, cooked and slept in one room of my granny’s house and had me when they got a council flat ten years later
I am a Boomer but growing up in the 60s and 70s I think I shared a lot of Gen Z experiences and attitudes compared to older Boomers
There was the more liberal attitudes to sex, higher expectations for education, more welfare state, the overhanging threat of nuclear war, recession. Too young to buy a property when it was relatively so didn’t benefit as much from the property boom and prices going sky high
People born in the crossover times between generations where there were big changes are callec Cuspers and those like me between Boomer and GenX are Genration Jones!
Generation Jones: Not Boomer, Not X..
The same for my son, born in 1983, he’s technically a Millenial, but he shares a lot of experiences and attitudes with Gen X too, so he’s called a Xennial!
I think those of us in the cusper generations when there were big changes had very unique experiences and don’t quite fit in with either 
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The baby boomer generation are often cited as the wealth hoarders. Look, I know this does not apply to many of us (I scrape in as a young boomer). However many, maybe the majority, of the boomer generation did exceptionally well out house price rises, generous pension schemes and well paid jobs through the decades of their working lives. The following generations fared less well.
But this will result in the great wealth transfer as the savings and investments from the boomer generation are bequeathed to their children. Financial services are gearing up for this multi-trillion pound movement of money.
Me - I’m going to fritter it all away.
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Heating costs, care costs, inflation, you may have to 
And the transfer of money to the next generation will only help those with Boomer parents who did acquire wealth
Not comfort those without wealthy Boomer parents who are struggling to pay their bills with no hope of home ownership now
Those working three jobs and paying their taxes to fund wealthy Boomers getting a state pension so they’ll have even more to hand down to their children, paid for by those struggling
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So true
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You only live once, so why look a gift horse in the mouth Maree…
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I sound like a geezer who used to be here “Realspeed” but we are a world apart, I don’t bang my chest on the achievement front, still grafting to his day, there is nothing else 
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That only works with 100% efficiency if done so at least 7yrs before death, so best done at the birth of each child in the form of a trust that can be added to throughout life. Great oaks from little acorns grow. We are all bricks in a huge wall, but your future is all bound up in how your particular brick was laid and by whom … the lottery of life.
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I like that LongDriver…You are a wise man…
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I was born towards the end of the boomer years and was lucky enough to benefit from good NHS , free university education with a grant and affordable housing for buyers and renters.
What did I miss, the closure of all the railway lines that made travel to out of the way towns and villages easy.
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Exactly. Plus the greatest social mobility this country has ever seen and, it seems, not likely to see again. What went wrong?
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It went Global
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Thatcher? Remember there’s no such thing as society.
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One of the most hated people in the UK.
Cruel and heartless she was.
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That’s not what people who were given the opputunity to buty their houses said .
It changed their lives .
( I am not a Thatcher fan just saying )
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Sure, there were those who benefited. Far more were so much worse off. The gap between the rich and poor grew disgracefully.
Communities were destroyed. So many jobs were lost.
We all know this so I will say no more.
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At the expense of their being no social housing available for those in need, though
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Thatcher destroyed the post war optimism and sense of community and created the divided society and social inequality we have today
An evil woman, she should never have been given that grand public funeral, it was an insult to those whose lives she ruined 
The world would have been a better place had she never been born
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At the end of the day, people want a better life for themselves and their families, so other people don’t come into the equation Maree…Throw a few bob into a charity and it will offset the guilt…
I think a referendum would suggest one way or the other if Margaret Thatcher was considered good or bad Maree…
Just a point:- Did you know that Harold Wilson (A labour PM) closed more pits here in the north than Thatcher ever did…?
Quote from Wiki:-
Harold Wilson (Labour) closed 253 pits as against Margaret Thatcher (Conservative ) 115, more than twice as many.
So what about Harold?