Quote Originally Posted by 1orion2many View Post
Gok the year he mentioned was 1980 and I don't remeber call waiting or Microwaves in the average household, as far as I can remember Video players were only just starting to come into homes but were like about $1200 so it wasn't for the average Joe. The reason I have such a good recollection of that year is because(giving away my age now)I was in year 8. Kup back in the mid 80's there was a Global recession(I think) and a lot of small business went belly up, unemployment was pretty high at the time as well, if you got a job, any job you were happy. TV was crap in general, here in Perth we had channel 9, 7 and the ABC. I spent more time down the local swamp collecting various animals than I did at home as this was by far more entertaining.
I was living overseas then so I missed all that. TV was freaking awesome! and I had a BetaMax player. My quality of life was better too so I can't really say how things were in Aus.

I was mainly referring to the Baby boomer generation that bought property for pocket change and are now set for life such as my Uncle who has been living in Australia for like 40 years.