Definitely not a statistical majority of boomers. A majority of Anglo-Saxon established Americans that would make it on a sitcom experienced favorable conditions. My dad has a friend who grew up in Pittsburgh. He moved away with his parents when he was young. His dad worked in a factory. Came back there to visit when his dad was 40. All but one of his dad's friends were dead due to factory conditions. They were immigrants, mostly.
New York and other big cities, tenement housing was rampant, still. We are talking 300 sqft, no running water for a whole family. For every family living the "American Dream", there were 2 families living in truly substandard living conditions that we wouldn't exactly consider "boomer living", let alone all the racism problems that kept nonwhites from white housing markets...
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u/Round-Walrus3175 15h ago
Definitely not a statistical majority of boomers. A majority of Anglo-Saxon established Americans that would make it on a sitcom experienced favorable conditions. My dad has a friend who grew up in Pittsburgh. He moved away with his parents when he was young. His dad worked in a factory. Came back there to visit when his dad was 40. All but one of his dad's friends were dead due to factory conditions. They were immigrants, mostly.
New York and other big cities, tenement housing was rampant, still. We are talking 300 sqft, no running water for a whole family. For every family living the "American Dream", there were 2 families living in truly substandard living conditions that we wouldn't exactly consider "boomer living", let alone all the racism problems that kept nonwhites from white housing markets...