Median age of Butler County residents is on an upward swing

[gortonator]

Originally Posted by eschaton

I've read similar excerpts from letters written in Ancient Greece.

Ancient Greece. Pah - that's nothing. There's documented evidence of similar excerpts from the aliens who came here to help the neanderthals learn how to light fires. Honestly ....

[Goinback2011]

My 20's spanned 1974-83 time period. Two miserable recessions separated by runaway inflation and ending with the collapse of the steel industry in Pittsburgh.

My Dad's 20's involved the tail end of the Great Depression and then a B17 over Germany.

Life sucks sometimes.

[gortonator]

Originally Posted by Goinback2011

My 20's spanned 1974-83 time period. Two miserable recessions separated by runaway inflation and ending with the collapse of the steel industry in Pittsburgh.

My Dad's 20's involved the tail end of the Great Depression and then a B17 over Germany.

Life sucks sometimes.

My father was raised during an economic depression and then served at the end of WW11 as a teenager. And then had the 'fun' post war period in the UK to live through. All caused by folks 2 or 3 of generations older than him. Luckily, there weren't Internet forums in them days ....

[SammyKhalifa]

Originally Posted by hinsey86

I remember reading a letter from the 1700's that said basically the same thing as SCRs post. And also one from the same period proclaiming the coming fall of mankind due to the younger generation.

Everyone thinks things were best when they were six years old, right?

I never considered myself an optimist; but I do believe that while recognizing a few dips along the way, things are better now--and always get better as time passes. It has only really been a few generations since people could expect to live to be about 40 or so. We're obviously much more familiar with the present, and probably only see the problems instead of stepping back and realizing that it ain't so bad. Things are never as bad as people think or as good as people think.