4 Generations, 1 Community

proximity to the depression and post war suburbanization.

I'm the same age as your mother (that has long seemed weird to me as you're the one I relate to), thus pre boomer - but I share some boomer traits and some gen x traits. Re dys' comment, to myself I'm sort of between the beat generation heyday and the hippies. I don't know how much I'd trust all these categories.. maybe I need to do some reading too. As many hippies turned into work oriented achievers as they aged, categories seem a little facile.

Of course, these categories are as accurate as horoscopes are, if that means anything to you.

It does, it does.

another mahjor distinction was the GI Bill or Roghts which had a profound effect on american society, the very concept of education (especially higher education) was bastardized because tons on money became available to "educate" the returning vets and ergo the quality of education became secondary to "enrollment". Quality went extremely lower while enrollment increase (more monies). In essence the GI bill produced an entire generation of illiterate college/university "graduates." (me being one of them)

I definitely see my parents having characteristics of both the depression generation and the Boomers. That's why I said that they were on the cusp.

This Generation Jones thing looks like a marketing ploy to me.
BUT...
I understand now why I didn't get along with my ex-wife (b.1953): she's a baby boomer, while I (b.1954) am a Generation Jones.
And any problems I may have with my wife (b. 1966) are because she's Generation X and I am Generation Jones.
Groovy!!!!!