Dec 30
Generation X: Where Are You?
Posted by editor at 9:40 am in workplace fun

I ask this sincerely: Where is Generation X?

Why don’t I have any friends in Los Angeles who are remotely close to my age? Why don’t I even know anyone in Generation X who lives locally? Okay, I can name two, but most friends and acquaintances are Baby Boomers. Our neighborhood is composed almost exclusively Baby Boomers. Everywhere I’ve volunteered was staffed with employees and volunteers who were exclusively Baby Boomers.  My workplaces have been Baby Boomer heavy (and Generation Y). My writing groups are almost exclusively Baby Boomers.

I know that you Baby Boomers make up a very big group (especially along with Generation Y). And I like most of you as individuals. But I’d like to know more people my own age (whimper).

 I suspect Generation X might be in the same two places that we are:  at work and at home. However, I’m most likely not going to meet you in either place. So let me ask out loud to make sure: Generation X, Where are you?

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  1. Jeff wrote:
    December 30th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    We left LA last year. But when we lived there, we could indeed be most often found at work or at home. With a new baby we didn’t get to go many other places, though we did go to the local Buddhist temple most Sundays, the nearest UU church rarely, and occasionally out to a Thai, Persian, or Japanese restaurant with our small store of other Gen X friends (all friends who were transplants from elsewhere, like us, such as college friends). We made exactly zero NEW Gen X friends while living in LA for two years, and in fact really didn’t interact with many potential new Gen X friends, now that I think about it.

  2. Jacqueline wrote:
    December 30th, 2008 at 10:20 am

    Oh, I hear you! I don’t know anyone that is Gen X - well, I thought my husband was, but he isn’t he is a Jones. I think my problem is that I had kids really early (21) and most of my Gen X friends waited and so we drifted. Now they have little kids and I have a grown girl - we don’t hang in the same circles. Sigh.

  3. Ms. Theologian wrote:
    December 30th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    Oh, now I know where two of you are….

    And, sadly, Jeff, now I’m wondering if you were at the same Thai, Persian, or Japanese restaurant when we were there with our limited group of Gen X couple friends.

    Jacqueline, what’s a Jones?

  4. ck wrote:
    December 30th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    I live in Austin, TX now after being in Chicago for a year. But right *now* I am in Maryland on vacation.

    Does that help…? :)

  5. Ms. Theologian wrote:
    December 30th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    SO literal, Colleen! I’m betting you’re mostly at work, at school, and at home too when you’re in Austin.

  6. GhostGirl wrote:
    December 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    I work with a lot of Gen-Xers. My entire group, in fact.

    Maybe they all moved to New York?

  7. Ms. Theologian wrote:
    December 30th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    What’s so funny about your comment, GhostGirl, is that I had a party in September in which all of the Gen Xers were either moving to NY or had lived already in NY. All of them.

  8. ck wrote:
    January 1st, 2009 at 10:12 am

    Hmm, I do know a lot of folks in NY. Lots of people my have moved there, seems like to Brooklyn. And yeah. School to home, home to school, is pretty much where I am, with a few trips to the dog park in between!

  9. hsofia wrote:
    January 4th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    Honestly? I think they all moved to Portland, Oregon.

  10. Ms. Theologian wrote:
    January 4th, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    Well, they clearly aren’t here. I think Portland and NYC are safe bets.

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