Free education, free health care, free dentistry (to start with), free university place (and a grant for living costs), affordable housing (not easy but achievable), free well stocked and local public libraries, cheap transport costs, no war affecting me directly, foods from all over the world. Football was more egalitarian. SO DO NOT LET ANY OLD PERSON CALL YOU YOUNGSTERS A SNOWFLAKE!
No it was not all brilliant – polio and typhoid were around. My bedroom window would have frost on the inside in winter mornings – hardly a hardship though. Myopic social views were common and toxic. TV was black and white and people were supposed to stand up for the National Anthem at the end of films in the cinema (although I never saw anyone doing this), drugs were in general harmless (grass), Begging was rare, the police were respected (in general), as were doctors, nurses, teachers. Yes privilege abounded – but probably less so than today. The gap in wages was much smaller.
And whilst the weather is at the forefront of our lives – the winter of 1962? was exceptionally cold for about 6 weeks, the river in Chelmsford flooded and washed away a bridge, hosepipe bans were common, as was the smut from stubble burning raining down at the end of summer.