# What Historical period would You Like To Live In? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 31, 2001, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763 "2001-10-31T18:58:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MrO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MrO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrO)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/41 "2001-11-06T12:41:03Z")
Medieval Europe, but with good plumbing. You know, the fairy tale middle ages. None of that plague crap, no spoiled food, and no coarse manners. Keep the religious architecture but dump the superstition. And everybody has to shower every day. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/42 "2001-11-06T13:44:25Z")
Another vote for NOW. I’ve always thought this was the most amazing time to be alive, even before 9/11. Now it’s even more so. A time of rapid change, and actually molding the world into a new future. Though I wouldn’t mind being alive in 2100 to see how it all turns out. And see how many musicals Andrew Lloyd Webber eventually does. ---
**Author:** ![AV8R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AV8R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AV8R)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/43 "2001-11-06T18:06:17Z")
I would like to have been born around 1950, so I could watch the entire space program unfold from the beginning. I only have memories back to about Apollo 8. ---
**Author:** ![Ave\_Minerva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@Ave\_Minerva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ave_Minerva)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/44 "2001-11-07T02:42:00Z")
Repulican Rome around 200 BC. Of course I would want to be one of the rich guys. Being a slave or a plebian would have not been pleasant. ---
**Author:** ![nodaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@nodaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nodaker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/45 "2001-11-07T02:43:55Z")
I would love to live in the 1930’s - 1950’s. Life was still simple; everything was mechanical and you could usually easily fix something without knowing how to use circuit boards and what not; there was still so much open space in America, our super-expansion of suburbs had not started yet; you didnt have to be smart to go to college or compete with millions of other kids; we did not have so many cars and pollution; our ozone wasnt in danger of evaporating; people didnt complain nearly so much; the press didnt nit-pick every stupid detail on a politician’s life when they ran for office because no one cared; everything was a lot cleaner and people didnt attract attention by looking/acting weird just cause they were gay or behind a cause. A lot less complaining; there were so many stupid laws ---
**Author:** ![nodaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@nodaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nodaker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/46 "2001-11-07T02:45:32Z")
sorry, i meant there were not so many stupid laws, ones that border on infringing our basic freedoms. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/47 "2001-11-07T07:34:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nodaker \* > \*\*I would love to live in the 1930’s - 1950’s. Life was still simple; everything was mechanical and you could usually easily fix something without knowing how to use circuit boards and what not; there was still so much open space in America, our super-expansion of suburbs had not started yet; you didnt have to be smart to go to college or compete with millions of other kids; we did not have so many cars and pollution; our ozone wasnt in danger of evaporating; people didnt complain nearly so much; the press didnt nit-pick every stupid detail on a politician’s life when they ran for office because no one cared; everything was a lot cleaner and people didnt attract attention by looking/acting weird just cause they were gay or behind a cause. A lot less complaining; there were so many stupid laws \*\* I think you have some serious misconceptions about that time frame. There were a lot less pollution controls than now and many materials now known to be toxic were in common use. People bathed less frequently, I believe in the 50s most people bathed about twice a week. Teen pregnancy was a lot more common in the '50s than now, it just wasn’t talked about. Also, what ‘stupid laws’ that infringe on our freedom do we have now that we didn’t have then? In the '50s official segregation was still common in many parts of the country, abortion was illegal almost everywhere, people were prosecuted for adultery, and you couldn’t vote until you were 21. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/48 "2001-11-07T12:01:06Z")
Don’t forget that 1930’s where the Depression years, and 1940’s where the World War II years. Not the most happy decades of the 20th century. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/49 "2001-11-07T13:24:23Z")
1600’s England, except I would bring with me one of those huge boomboxes from the 80’s, a Men Without Hats tape, and a bunch of midgets. That way I could do a fire ass Safety Dance. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/50 "2001-11-07T20:07:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Scrivener \* > Would anyone be willing to dump the present and settle into the future world of 20 or 50 years ahead? Sign me up! But can we do 100 years instead? Sure, it’s scary to jump into the unknown, but think of what there will be to see! A robotic utopia? Intergalactic colonies? Survivors scrabbling for life in a post-holocaust wasteland? Cyborg mutants enslaving humanity? A world full of Jerry Falwell clones? Whatever it is, it’s gotta beat sitting here in a cubicle… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lateralus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@Lateralus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lateralus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763/51 "2001-11-07T20:37:04Z")
I’ve always wanted to be a P-51 ace during WWII, cruising at 20k over Germany hunting for Jerries to shoot down. Mmmmmm… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-period-would-you-like-to-live-in/90763.md?page=2)