First-timers buyers learn to sacrifice

Macca83_2

GeorgeHowell wrote: »

It's not really animosity, it's exasperation. Every generation experiences it as they mature -- they have the experience and can point out to the young the error of their ways and a better solution. But of course no younger generation ever listens !

The only animosity is towards the minority of the young who resent the older generation as if all their problems are their parents' fault within some some sort of baby boomer conspiracy. I guess this thread just says that the answer to their problems in fact lies at least partly in their own hands. But it's not telling many what they want to hear, and they still want to have their cake and eat it.

As you point out, your generation caused the same despair to your parents. You lived across decades of rock n' roll, free love and flower power. Parents across the land must have panicked in the thought that they had raised self absorbed, fashion obsessed, drug taking, promiscuous devils. But despite that, you all turned into hard working, responsible adults. You realised that the solution to your problems lay within your hands. You grew up and this generation will also do the same.