Boomers have had a few bad periods if they were invested. Totally agree the best investments they ever made were in their houses. I bought my first house in late 80's for 68,000 and now that house is worth 900,000. I'm sure it will drop from there.

Income back then was around 50k a year, I make around 4x that now. So ya, owning a home back then was the way to go.