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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 11860399, member: 2844&quot;]Yes, the North American Lost Generation is post WW1. Which is why I said that Europe has its own Lost Generation, so different from the North American one.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Socio-economics evolve differently in different parts of the world. For instance, Australia suffered more from the Great Depression of the 1930s than any other Western nation, a little known fact. Also pretty unknown is how hard Europe was hit by the economic crises of the 70s and 80s, resulting in the doom scenario told to us teens, and our determination to try and make it anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the baby boom goes, here in NL the generation of my parents, born in the 1920s, was the largest by far. That was our real baby boom, not the 1945-55(-65) generation.</p><p><br /></p><p>There has been a panic here over the last few years that the baby boomers will hit retirement age soon and their health issues will be a strain on the system (why anticipate, right?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" />). Turns out the first ones became pensioners in 2000 (early retirement was popular at the time), and recent figures show that they have not put an extra strain on the health system.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /> Healthy living works.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Besides, the bad news actually came and went, the strain the 1920s baby boom generation put on the health system. After they put a lot of money into it in the first place. And guess what, the country survived.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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