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Elessar Zappa

(16,385 posts) Tue Mar 14, 2023, 06:18 PM Mar 2023

How old are you?

I’m curious as to the age of my fellow DUers. I’m 39 so I’m an old millennial.

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How old are you? (Original Post) Elessar Zappa Mar 2023 OP

I missed being a "Boomer" by four months. Glorfindel Mar 2023 #1

Which group do you have more in common with? Elessar Zappa Mar 2023 #2

The Boomers, by a large margin. Glorfindel Mar 2023 #4

If you get a large number of DUer's responding, I think the age will skew in the 60 - 80 range. Fla Dem Mar 2023 #3

Well, if I vote today I'm in one group and if I wait til April I'm in another..... LakeArenal Mar 2023 #5

Ah, we have a centenarian electric_blue68 Mar 2023 #6

Glorfindel

(10,175 posts)

1. I missed being a "Boomer" by four months.

Reply to Elessar Zappa (Original post)

Tue Mar 14, 2023, 06:22 PM

Mar 2023

So I guess I'm a younger member of the Silent Generation.

Elessar Zappa

(16,385 posts)

2. Which group do you have more in common with?

Reply to Glorfindel (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 14, 2023, 06:27 PM

Mar 2023

The generational age ranges are inexact in my mind.

Glorfindel

(10,175 posts)

4. The Boomers, by a large margin.

Reply to Elessar Zappa (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 14, 2023, 07:02 PM

Mar 2023

Those born between 1946 and 1964. The Silent Generation was born between 1928 and 1945.

Fla Dem

(27,785 posts)

3. If you get a large number of DUer's responding, I think the age will skew in the 60 - 80 range.

Reply to Elessar Zappa (Original post)

Tue Mar 14, 2023, 06:41 PM

Mar 2023

DU was launched in January 2001. That was 22 years ago. If a majority of new members who joined in the 1st couple of years, were in the 40- 70 age range, they would now be in the 60+ age range. Yes many members have since joined, but the membership foundation was laid back in the early 2000's.

New enrollments since then would have added across the age spectrum, but even with some older DUer's leaving or passing on, I would think that 60+ group would be the majority. It will be interesting to see.

LakeArenal

(29,949 posts)

5. Well, if I vote today I'm in one group and if I wait til April I'm in another.....

Reply to Elessar Zappa (Original post)

Tue Mar 14, 2023, 07:38 PM

Mar 2023

electric_blue68

(27,355 posts)

6. Ah, we have a centenarian

Reply to Elessar Zappa (Original post)

Wed Mar 15, 2023, 11:30 AM

Mar 2023

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