Do you ever wish you were born in a different era? If so, when?

[milestogo]

I would like to be a Viking farmer's wife. Maybe 800-900 AD Scandinavia. Hard life but simple. And I really don't mind the cold.

[Funtatlaguy]

1. One with no Trump alive

[Rizen]

3. +1.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Hopefully by next week.

[Rizen]

2. I reeeeealy hate people....

except for Democrats but as much as I'd like to say not this era, people were even stupider in the past. There's always this romanticized image of different times throughout history but what happens if you need a dentist or some TP to whip your butt? I'd like to think people will be smarter in the future.

[highplainsdem]

4. God, no. Not when I think of how women usually had to dress.

There were lots of other inconveniences that affected both men and women, but in general women's clothing was a crippling disaster, no matter how decorative it might have been.

[Skittles]

5. not really

I would never want to miss being a teenager in the 70's in the suburbs - no INDEED

[anciano]

7. No, I think that Nature

put me exactly where and when it wanted me to be.

[Solly Mack]

8. I was born too soon.

I don't want to miss what's coming.

[highplainsdem]

9. What are you expecting?

[Solly Mack]

10. I don't know. Anything is possible.

[highplainsdem]

12. Unless we can stop Trump and the AI bros and tech lords now supporting him, that "anything" is

likely to be hell for everyone and everything outside their small circle. They're a threat to the entire world.

[Ptah]

13. I would have loved to be alive when Benny Goodman rocked Carnegie Hall!

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Definitely in Victorian Era.

[LudwigPastorius]

15. I think the past is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

I would like to visit various locations around New York starting from the early 1940s to the late 60s.

I would get to watch the birth of bebop through the early free jazz movement in person.

Of course, I'd also run the risk of contracting a disease without a cure (polio, hepatitis A & B, measles), or of being drafted for WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnam too.

[Mad_Dem_X]

16. I would have loved to have been a teenager in the 1960's

so I would have been alive when The Beatles first arrived in America. What an exciting time! (I was born in 1966.)

[anciano]

17. It was an exciting time indeed (I was born in 1947)....

and the 1960s were truly a transformative era in so many areas of American life.

[LogDog75]

18. I lived in Trumbull, CT when The Beatles first came to the US

about 50 miles from New York City. I was in junior high school and a number of students on our school bus were absent when The Beatles landed in New York City. It turns out they too the train to New York City so they could meet them at the airport.

[electric_blue68]

20. Hahahaaaa, I love it! 😄

I had relatives in Trumbill, but waaay later.

[LogDog75]

19. No, I like the era I was born in

Most of what the think of or past eras comes from sanitized versions we saw in movies, on TV, or read about. Ever notice in the western movies and TV shows from 30s to the 70s people looked like they had just taken a bath, their clothes are clean, the streets are free of horse manure, very rarely you saw anyone head to the outhouse, etc...?

We tend to romanticize past eras but when you study or read about the reality of those eras you appreciate the era you're in.

[electric_blue68]

21. No, happy where I landed chronologically....

(and location - NYC)

While occasionally I wish I was a few years younger (bc the years are pasing) say 68 instead of 72...
But then if I didn't have an older sibling; like my sister who's 68 who had(s) me... or even with our parents

I probably wouldn't have been cogent of JFK, maybe even Sen Robert F Kennedy, MLK.

Music being central to me.
Might not have gotten into The Beatles at the USA start, I got to see them via a friend or be introduced to The Who(!) by a cousin, and seeing thrm play Tommy at tbe Filmore East. Maybe even missing their Who's Next Tour (live Pure and Easy) And all so many bands & performers from '64, '65 onward!
Wouldn't have gotten to one gigantic from 10AM till 11PMish concert at the old Shea Stadium to raise $$ for the anti-Vietnam War candidates. John Sebastion, Richie Havens, The Rascels, James Gang, Poco, Paul Simon, a bunch more, then Janis Joplin, Credence Clearwater closing.

(? 2nd wave) Feminists!

This what comes to my mind immediately.