Time Travel Theoretical (Inspired by Onion AV Club Q&A)

I know this has been done to death on here in one form or another, but I really enjoyed spin on the question in this discussion with Patton Oswalt, Roger Ebert, and the Onion AV Club staff. The question discussed was:

Where and when would you most want to live for five years, restricted to a five-mile radius?

Here is the rest of their preface to the disccusion:

They also added these caveats to the discussion:

So Dopers, what say you? I don’t have my own answer yet… Need to think on it a bit.