Stammer loses it yet again.

Firstly I'm a similar age to you, so yes I remember them as well as do you. But you are comparing to when you were a kid. Not when you were a grown up, so that's your Dads generation. 
As for your carpenters, yes I agree more young people should go into the building trade, but that's a relatively small number. Where are all the meduim paid jobs working as printers, invoice clerks, typists, fork truck drivers etc etc. They are gone. Replaced by low paid peripheral work in leisure and delivery.

At the same time mortgages have increased from being 20% of your income to 40% of your income. 

The only blame our generation carry is our unwillingness to shoulder the burden of the ever increasing medical treatments we enjoyed, so this extra tax burden was met by increasing the population and by that the GDP every year in a game of perpetual catch up until there was no room left. Now we want that stopped and no more homes built in our back yards, so stuff the young and let them suffer, just ring fence our pensions.

Your thin skin supports my suspicion.

Printers , typists etc etc are gone because of the rise of technology. The same technology that has given the new generation a wealth of electronic gadgets and a new virtual reality that they seem to have embraced .

Yes that's what I said. When people think of automation they imagine robots building cars, but the real jobs have gone because of AI, automated banking Sage, programmable self monitoring printing machines etc. They weren't around much in our lucky young days when we were earning good money.


I've no idea what you mean by that? Boomers were of a certain era how can I connect or disconnect them from another era? 


Its often been given as one of the reasons for leaving the EU that we were overcrowded. Nimbyism in not a construct of the young. 


Did you miss the outcry when that was muted? 
But its nothing to do with what I'm saying, I am saying every generation thinks the next one is weak soft, has it easy.

Yep, we didn't want it but we needed our GDP to grow each year and we weren't having children. The alternative was to pay more tax each. 
Do tell me why do you think every government bought hundreds of thousands of immigrants in every year? 

The older generation - by which I mean people significantly older than my 57 years - came of age in a time of affordable house prices, plentiful social housing and reasonably affordable private rents, as well as full employment. The ones that went to uni did so for free, the rest got jobs easily and apprenticeships if they wanted them. Then having bought their homes cheaply or acquired their council houses, they voted for governments that generated housing booms to enrich themselves whilst making housing to buy ever more unaffordable to future generations. And they voted for governments that would sell them their council houses on the cheap, making social housing ever scarcer for future generations. Having benefitted from controlled rents they later became landlords and voted for governments that abolished rent control. Having benefitted from full employment they voted for governments that devastated industry for future generations so they could enjoy tax cuts. Having enjoyed free university tuition they voted to impose fees and student debt on future generations. And throughout it all they whinged about how hard they had it and how much easier it is for young people. The older generation - at least the ones who voted for it - were complicit in what was done to society.

I know plenty of people who didn't have children because of immigration making this country full of shitholes in places. I knew a number of young couples who moved to rural France and started a family.