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In reply to the discussion: It seems like there's a lot of dislike and contempt for "boomers" from "millennials" [View all]tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)My Boomer parents had a 5 BR house at the age of 27 (they're still living there now).
They took European vacations fresh out of grad school. If a millennial did that then they would be deemed as selfish and irresponsible. They graduated with no student loan debt. To them a degree is a piece of paper that is a magic ticket to prosperity. They were able to pay for college with a summer job waiting tables. Try doing that today.
And in some areas, new construction is basically limited to Boomers and up (they're concentrated in 55+ communities). I talk to voters for a living. Whenever I am on a local or state level race, I always hear from Boomers (I know exactly how old the people I'm supposed to talk to are from their voter registration and the voters I've talked to range in age from 18-96). The most common complaint from the Boomers is about school taxes and how their kids are grown and gone and why should they have to pay them. I never hear complaints like that from any other generation (my WWII grandparents are all still alive and have never had that attitude and I have never heard that from a WWII generation voter at the doors or on the phones but I hear it all the time from Boomers). I actually talked a state legislative candidate out of using education as a platform because of the high number of 55+ communities in the district (that district's majority of voters were 50-65).