@Jexocuha this video is pretty accurate. I was a child through the 1950s and of course at the time that was what we knew and it was a lot better than the 1940s with its great war. But the house I lived in had no central heating, the bedrooms were cold and draughty, we mainly lived in the kitchen which is where we had a fire - there were fireplaces in the downstairs rooms as well but they were too expensive to run and too time consuming so set and feed. Folks forget how much effort it takes to light and maintain a coal fire successfully. The kitchen had an outside door, one into the hall and one into a cellar - they all had gaps in and underneath them so it was very draughty, so it was radiant heat from the fire than kept us warm rather than actually increasing the room temperature. It was a big event at Christmas when mum lit fires in the other rooms - we forget these days how special it could be to light fires in rooms we didn't use very often, and it was like a magical different world to a small child.
Mum had to do all our washing by hand and had a mangle in the garden for squeezing them dry before putting them on the clothes line (which immediately prompted the heavens to open and rinse them all with sooty raindrops from the smoke coming out of the chimneys all around us. We had no fridge, no freezer, no vacuum cleaner (mum did it all with a brush and pan), and it was difficult to keep food fresh for more than a day or two, so mum went shopping every day for perishable groceries. We had no car, so all this was done on foot. Those were very labour-intensive days
We were constantly under threat as well from diseases that are eradicated now, or easily treatable. Measles, mumps, polio, diphtheria, rubella were all pretty common, and there were occasional outbreaks of smallpox in the city where we lived. It didn't bother us (much) then, in that we knew no better, and things had improved a lot since the previous generation, but modern folks would be terrified by it judging by the recent reaction to the pandemic, which was pretty tame compared with the stuff that was circulating all the time in the 1950s (though obviously much more widespread).
In those days, corporal punishment was still encouraged and used in schools and kids were pretty frightened of many of the teachers - I don't think modern youngsters would be too happy with that. I must say though that as a fairly timid child myself, this maybe gave me a lot more protection from bullies than would be the case today.
I think where modern youngsters have a possible case is over the cost of tertiary education. My generation in the UK lies between the earlier ones and the later ones that both had to pay through the nose for it. I didn’t - it was funded in the UK almost entirely by the state from the 1950s through to the 1980s. We had a strict limit on how many people could go to uni though. It was rationed by ability and you needed to be in the top 10-20% of achievers academically to get there. Once we decided everyone should have the opportunity to go, it became no longer possible for the state to fund it entirely and people today have to pay enormous sums for it out of their own pockets. I have mixed feelings about this - there is a very worthy aim to give youngsters a chance to better themselves and break out of age-old class boundaries. The trouble is that tertiary education is still focused on academic ability, and to be honest only a minority of us are actually suited to this. We have turned the universities in the UK into a device for social engineering and this seems to me to be doing the people who pass through them a grave disservice. I think we were better served in my day when we paid very little ourselves, but only those who had the relevant sort of talents and interests would go. What we've done is a bit like if we said that soccer is a way through our class barriers, so everyone should be offered a place with a top class soccer team. It's mixing oranges and ostriches together. There must be a better way to do this.
There's obviously more to say - there were lots of good things about the 1950s too. It's only looking back and making the contrast with modern times that we can say what was good and what was bad. For me, those days were just the way things were at that time. I wouldn't like to go back now to a cold, draughty, unheated house any more, or do without modern conveniences, and I make extensive use of the mapping apps I've put on my phone, which would have looked utterly miraculous in the 50's. The biggest and most important thing I feel we have lost since those days is freedom, particularly for youngsters. By the time I was 8 years old, I had explored all our neighbourhood by myself for a mile around. and I took myself off to school and back by myself every day, about a mile and a half away - either on foot or by bus, later on my bike. When I was a little older, 10/11 or so, during holidays I used to buy day tickets on our city bus network and spent all day on my own travelling the extent of the network and exploring the city. I often used to get the bus into the city centre and spend ages exploring the shops and the back streets there. No-one seems to feel it's safe to let kids of that age do this sort of thing on their own any more. I think we all grew up earlier and become more self sufficient earlier in those days, and that is a really great loss in my opinion.