# Middle Age? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 8, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640 "2014-07-08T15:14:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/21 "2014-07-09T00:27:51Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Middle age is 40 until you retire. > > What we need is a term for age 30-40. holyshitwhatthefuckdoIdowithmylife age ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/22 "2014-07-09T00:37:35Z")
I figure it’s about 45-59. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/23 "2014-07-09T03:35:05Z")
I’m 68. So middle age is about 40 to 68. In a few months it’ll be 40 to 69. Old age is over the hill, literally and figuratively. ---
**Author:** ![No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_umlaut_for_U)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/24 "2014-07-09T03:42:02Z")
I’d call it 50-70. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/25 "2014-07-09T03:42:27Z")
Chris expected to live to the age of 40-something. Holling had ancestors survive well past 100. In one ep, they both were described as having a midlife crisis. Made sense to Fleischman. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/26 "2014-07-09T03:48:38Z")
I’m beginning to doubt the value of a poll! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/27 "2014-07-09T03:52:58Z")
I would say 35-40 to 60-65. I hate when people try to tell me that I am young. I am 41. I have no intention of jumping straight from young to old. I think the middle is the best part. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/28 "2014-07-09T03:56:44Z")
I say it’s 40-60. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/29 "2014-07-09T04:29:56Z")
I honestly felt like I’d finally hit middle aged around 42 - 43. As far as the top end? I guess around 65, but I doubt I’d know until I get there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/30 "2014-07-09T05:43:46Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > [August 24](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_%28410%29) (link should also answer the basis question, don’t know what time) Aug 24 is my birthday, and I turn 36 this year. I’m not quite middle aged yet, right fellas, right?!? ---
**Author:** ![protoboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/31 "2014-07-09T05:56:04Z")
I’d consider anyone born between 1950 and 1989 middle aged. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/32 "2014-07-09T05:59:23Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > When I was in mid-20s, I remember someone telling me I was middle-aged. I was totally WTF. > > When I hear someone referred to as “middle-aged”, I picture someone in their late 40s. That’s when women start worrying about menopause, and maybe men start worrying about testosterone and receding hairlines? The 30s are wrought with age-related angst too, but it’s more like “I’m the same age as my mother when she had me but I haven’t done X, Y, or Z yet” rather than “I’m almost 50 and I haven’t done X, Y, or Z yet.” The latter seems more like a mid-life crisis thing. I like your answer. A rough age guideline, but better explained by examples, like you did. I’m with **monstro**. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/33 "2014-07-09T06:00:30Z")
> [@protoboard](#): > > I’d consider anyone born between 1950 and 1989 middle aged. 1989? You consider a 25 year old middle aged? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/34 "2014-07-09T06:35:11Z")
Through Post #33 these are the specific ranges mentioned thus far: 35-60 45 to 60. 40 to 50 40 to 60. 30-60 37- 40 until you retire. 35 to about 60 40 - late 40s - 45-59. 40 to 68. 50-70 35-40 to 60-65. 40-60 42 - 43. top end? around 65 anyone born between 1950 and 1989 middle aged. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/35 "2014-07-09T08:32:01Z")
so now you just need to calculate the mean and you have middle age ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/36 "2014-07-09T09:21:10Z")
Middle age is 45 to me. Not a range, that specific birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/37 "2014-07-09T12:48:56Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > so now you just need to calculate the mean and you have middle age Nice plan. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/38 "2014-07-09T14:22:43Z")
I’d agree with 40-50. At 40 I shacked up with a 26-year-old. At 45 I divorced my wife of 23 years and married somebody else. At 50, we uprooted our life, changed locations and jobs. All mid-life type activities, although I didn’t (and don’t) see any of it as a mid-life “crisis”. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/39 "2014-07-09T17:18:27Z")
45-65 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640/40 "2014-07-09T21:45:47Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I’d agree with 40-50. At 40 I shacked up with a 26-year-old. At 45 I divorced my wife of 23 years and married somebody else. At 50, we uprooted our life, changed locations and jobs. I only bought a hot car.:smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-age/692640.md?page=3)