2000s for me as that was the decade with the least financial worries
Favourite Decade
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I voted for the 1990s. The 1980s were my second choice. I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s as i was born in 1978.
The 1960s was my third choice. I like a lot of things from that era. Music and TV was getting interesting. With the end of musicals, movies got more realistic. Folks became more politically aware. Racial, Gender and Sexual Orientation Civil rights issues were being raised in the mainstream media and politics. Very exciting times.
The 1960s was my third choice. I like a lot of things from that era. Music and TV was getting interesting. With the end of musicals, movies got more realistic. Folks became more politically aware. Racial, Gender and Sexual Orientation Civil rights issues were being raised in the mainstream media and politics. Very exciting times.
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1970's. If the poll had allowed it, I would've said 60's and 70's, when I was 10 - 29. We really thought the world was becoming a better place, and we were helping make it happen. Good music.
The 80's had the advantage of so much irrational exuberance backed by a prosperous economy. It was a time for hope and technological achievement. So much started to change for the better in so many respects. The 90's that followed was great, but led to a mounting of issues that would become the downfall that precipitated the dotcom bust. The 80's was such a wonderful time. If a little better tempered, it could have resulted in a much more sane 1990's and perhaps an even better start of the new millenium.
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The '80s were unbridled commercial and consumer joie de vivre and while the excesses were awful it was a very exciting and fun era for a child in his elementary and junior high years. The world was a kid's oyster in the eighties and even though we didn't yet have the Internet, smart phones or more than a few limited flavors of M&Ms we rocked those years.
An Atari 2600, denim jacket and cassette deck containing a Van Halen tape were all you needed.
The '80s were unbridled commercial and consumer joie de vivre and while the excesses were awful it was a very exciting and fun era for a child in his elementary and junior high years. The world was a kid's oyster in the eighties and even though we didn't yet have the Internet, smart phones or more than a few limited flavors of M&Ms we rocked those years.
An Atari 2600, denim jacket and cassette deck containing a Van Halen tape were all you needed.
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The 90s, definitely. The music was better, the TV was better, and I think the country was a lot better off than it is now, but since this isn't TNZ, I'll leave it at that.
I find the 1920s to be the most interesting decade, the calm before the storm as it were, but that is not up there. As it is, if my favorite time is not now then I'm doing something wrong with my life.
Wow, isn't that setting an unrealistically high bar for yourself? Sometimes the present isn't our favorite time because of what life is doing to us, not what we are doing with life.
There are exceptions, sure, but life should be an upward trajectory as you gain experience and wisdom (something many people refuse to do). Granted, the fact that I'm a middle class white American male with a college education helps me to live such a life.
Don't have quite as much to worry about as, say, a person in Africa does with their life.
I thought about voting for the 80s, as that was when I was in my teens and early 20s, but I had some rough years in that decade I'd rather not revisit. Loved the music (especially the cheesiness) and the fashions, though, and I did have some really good times. Instead I voted for the 90s. I started off the decade in university and ended the decade in a different country with a husband and two of my three children. Life was hectic, but good.
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Alien Guy's welcome to use it, too. As long as he doesn't say Aliens gave me the idea to say that.
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