If you could only pick one...What decade would you choose to live in?

[Gothic Sponge]

I think i would pick the 70's.

[DU9598]

1. 1990's - the Clinton years

[MissMillie]

35. me too

good years

[judge_smales]

2. Really?

I was there. It wasn't that great.

I'd pick the 40's. The cars were great!

[Maestro]

4. The 40's hear too. Men's suits were killer then

and the fidoras, sweet.

[NoPasaran]

10. Too bad about that war, though.

[jmowreader]

15. I'd choose the 40s because everything was new then

The first five years sucked ass, but from 1946 on the Forties rocked as far as New Technological Discoveries are concerned.

These days there really is no discovery, only refinement of what we already have. In the Forties people were making new discoveries every day.

And I know exactly what I'd like to have worked with, too: after World War II, the Allies confiscated an IG Farben patent concerning diisocyanate reactions as war reparations. "Diisocyanate reactions" is a long-winded way to say Polyurethane, which is the "synthetic rubber" Prescott Bush helped to finance. I think there are two contenders for the title Most Important Invention of the 20th Century. One is the computer, the other is polyurethane. Anyway, I would have been a polyurethane chemist.

[Zorra]

3. The 50's - year 1450, SoCal coast.

[Commendatori]

5. The 60's.

I really wish I got to see JFK as a president. As it stands, I was an infant when he died.

[Pillowbiter]

6. 2040's

When Neo-con ambitions and machinery of warfare will be shown frequently on the history channel.

PB

[maveric]

7. I had a lot of fun in the 70's. I cant remember much but I had fun.

Politically the 70's was a trainwreck, but the free thinkining lifestyles made it all worth it.

[amber dog democrat]

8. 1930s

Plenty of steam locomotives and fishing schooners to photograph.

[Taverner]

9. I'd relive the 90's

Unmarried this time :evilgrin:

[Demobrat]

11. The huh?

You are either a female or have parents rich enough to keep you in college, and out of Vietnam. Unless of course you are talking about the late seventies, and that's too strange to be possible.

[Taverner]

12. Deferments were easier to come by

in the 70's than will be the case today. I had a teacher who stayed out of Vietnam by doing the Coast Guard reserves. Claimed it was a blast (no drug testing, went out doing search and rescue off the coast of Santa Barbara, etc.)

These days, however, that's just asking to be sent to the gulf.

[Demobrat]

14. Fathers were exempt too.

I was such a bitch I wouldn't let my boyfriend knock me up, but some of our friends did choose that route.

[Parche]

13. decade

40's I would be a submarine commander!!!

[bif]

16. The 70s

I enjoyed that decade.

[Kat45]

17. The '60s: full of possibilities & optimism. And it was pre-AIDS.

Yeah, a lot of bad things happened (such as good people being assassinated, and of course Vietnam), but liberalism was strong and seemed like it was going to take over forever. There was a lot of great music. The pill was on the market and AIDS did not yet exist here. I was too young to enjoy the times back then. (And yes, I'm female so I wouldn't have been subject to the draft.)

[Susang]

18. New York City in the 70s

See, I'd have to be able to choose my environment as well. Cleveland or Des Moines in the 70s just wouldn't cut it for me, if you get my drift.

[LWolf]

19. 70s

My favorite decade that I actually experienced.

Or perhaps 8,000 BC.

[Race4Peace]

20. the 70's...

REVOLUTION!!!

[Wapsie B]

21. The 70's.

That would mean I could have the chance to start over.

[Liberal Classic]

22. The 90s, I mean the 10190s

The known universe will be ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV...

[patriotvoice]

23. This one.

There is only the now.

[AlienGirl]

24. The 90's...

I really ought never to have outlasted them.

Tucker

[testing123]

25. The 60's

I was a kid in the late 60's and people treated each other with respect.

Things were cheap and jobs were plentiful. We had factories back in those days and toys took a licking and kept on ticking.

[Stockholm]

26. 20`s and live in Berlin! n/t

[Shopaholic]

27. The 70's. .

it was the last era in which you could have a really good time. We didn't know about AIDS or Herpes and we didn't know that cocaine was addictive. I was too young in the 70's to enjoy myself but I'd like to go back to the mid-late 70's and live my life in that time period as an adult. Just so long as I didn't have to wake up in the 80's and realize that there were things like AIDS, Herpes, and cocaine addiction.

[southpaw]

28. The 70's

I was born in '66, so I was still pretty young when the 70's ended. I would like to have been in my 20's through that period...

Then again, I would have likely ended up a drug casualty.

[electricmonk]

29. Late 20's to mid 30's

If I had money I could have hung out with Man Ray, Max Ernst, Picasso, Lee Miller and all those cats.

[SCDem]

31. If I had money i'd like to live in any decade

Of course if you didn't the late 20s... 1929... wouldn't be the best year decade to live in with the Stock Market crash and the Great Depression and everything. My grandmother was sewing potato sacks for clothes in 1929. Of course my grandfather on my mothers side says Depression what Depression.... his parents were morticians and business was good enough to send him to Notre Dame.

[UrbScotty]

30. Most likely the '50s, but maybe the '70s or '90s (nt)

[underpants]

32. The one with the flying cars

Which was SUPPOSED to be this decade :grr: stupid lying Jetsons :grr:

[bearfan454]

33. Chicago in the early 70's.

Know what I mean ? :hippie: :smoke:

The colors red and gold meant something different back then.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

34. The 60's

Go back to HS and college and do it right this time.

[SarahB]

36. Early - mid 60's

The pill was invented, they would still consider my body type cute, drugs weren't as big yet, and it was beginning of a lot of progressive movements. All that hairspray though.

[chicaloca]

37. I'd also pick the 70s.

Disco, feminism, protests, watching Nixon get his ass booted out of the White House...What could be better?

[regnaD kciN]

38. 1964-1974

Start with the British Invasion, end with Nixon's Farewell.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

39. Any decade before 1492.

Arawak indians on the carribean islands