Reply #1: I don't get what Generation "(your) parents" belong to. But Boomers have only begun to collect SS; [View All]

[WinkyDink]

OUR parents lived through the Depression; and the 50's saw tract houses (think: Levittown), not the now-standard 4 BR/2 1/2BA/ 2-car G seen today.

We Boomers had one car per family, one TV per family, one telephone per family, no dishwasher, and no AC (think about that).

MANY of my peers worked their way through college, in food service, "campus cops", library aides. etc. And that was in state schools.

And others? Well, 58,000 came home in a box from VietNam.

I began married life at age 23, living in an apartment, then an inner-city row-home, THEN a townhouse, and finally, when 37 (and my husband 46) in my current "standard" suburban dwelling---after working 15 years as a public-school teacher.

Nobody wants to begin post-college life in anything less than suburbia, now.

So yes, your PARENTS, who might be in their 60's, are perhaps doing well. But their first 30-35 years of life? Maybe not so cushy.