….”best decade of my life.
Music, university, no worries and girls”.
So how did you pay for this great time? Same as me, you got a university grant, cost of living for booze, food, bills and accommodation were nothing like they are today.
Get a decent job, save for a deposit for a house pretty quickly, buy one and sell it for twice the price within 5 years, buy a better house, repeat.
Don’t go to university, find a job, apprenticeship and tech college, well paid job with years ahead of you. Steel worker, fitter, plumber, welder, miner etc. Of course there were hard times, but most of my non uni mates had 30+ year jobs, retired with a good pension.
Not like that now is it? Costs for younger people much higher, chance of affording a house much lower, wages depressed, crap pensions, less job security.
I’d take the 70s for all the things you listed above. I’d also say that opportunities to get on were also better.
Struggle to see how my children and their mates will have the same level of comfortable living as many within our age group have. They rely more on the older generation for financial support today than I ever did in the 70s.
