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Averages are just that, generalisations. i was posting from experience. My experience meant I had to move away to be able to afford a house, which was the point of my original post.

No, it wasn't. It was different but no easier unless you moved around. Wages were poor.

Easier to borrow £3K than 6K. That was the difference in house prices. 2.5 times the husband's salary and the wife's salary ignored. In addition, he was entitled to be housed by his local council, as just having left the armed forces.

We had both just come out of the Navy, so employment record not satisfactory to building societies. Coffee bars were so early 60s.

Moving up north with my first marriage enabled me to get our first home after living in a council house for six years. We couldn't afford to live in Sussex. This was in the 'golden years' of the 70s. It's all very teenager 'It's not fair', isn't it?

I remember you being a great admirer of North Korea. I have read a story about someone who was born in North Korea, in prison. His mother was put in prison because his father objected to the political regime. The whole family were interned. As his mother was already pregnant, he was born in...

You'll never enjoy life if you resent other people.

I'll be giving up my wealth soon enough when I go to the grave and then my grandchildren will have it, so it does get passed onto the millenials. I didn't get a thing from my parents when they died. Not one penny.

Of course, the OP is talking about pensions etc but everyone pays tax on fuel, energy, some food and adult clothing. In the meantime, the top 2% of wealth in the country has increased by over 28% in the last ten years or so. It's not taxes that are the problem but what the government...

I agree. I got remarried in 1993 and hardly paid anything. Friends and relatives chipped in, making a cake for the price of the ingredients, a friend did our photos as a wedding present, and a dear close friend bought my outfit.

To be fair his post said parents and families of these so called boomers had to go through in WW2. not the Baby Boomers themselves. For example, my Dad was 19 when war broke out and 25 when it finished. His youth was stolen from him. He didn't marry until 1947.

There was a chronic housing shortage due to the bombing. As my Dad was a regular in the RN, we had to live apart for long periods because there were no married quarters. Pompey and Plymouth were flattened. I can remember seeing bomb ruins in Pompey when we did live there for a year, and grave...

I missed this thread because I have the OP on ignore and it's only because I looked at Forums, that it showed up. Yes, you're right, many of my generation have zero pension. I was born just post war, and women were expected to stay at home to look after children when they got married. I did...