Mostly I feel the same as the rest of you but I had a very difficult upbringing so didn't have the opportunity to do all the above.
I don't think it was better than today, just different. We didn't have the expectations of teenagers today and may have been happier as a result. Only about 5% went to university, many of the rest didn't even get to take 'A' levels. At 11 you were judged a success or failure and the rest of your education depended on your 11+ result which meant that in some areas the top 25% passed and in other areas only 5% did. I think these days comprehensives are better than the secondary moderns were.
I doubt we thought about our expectations as much as they do today. Women generally, imo, assumed they would work for a while and then get married. A few years later they would start having children and give up work. No nurseries in those days so unless you had family to help you didn't have a choice. No one told us we might be gay or in the wrong gender which must had been hard for those who were but a lot easier for the rest as we didn't need to think about it while very young.
I think racial prejudice was probably endemic but where we lived I don't think we ever say a brown or Oriental person.
So although we didn't have all the advantages available today I think life may have been sweeter.
My four year old grandson "doesn't want me"
The Republic of Ireland and their tensions with migrants.