Age 50+, rank the decades you have been alive in order of best time to live

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People should only rank decades in which they were an adult supporting themselves. Anyone 50ish was a child in the 80s.

53.
Child 1-13 1970-1983.
Teen 13-19 1984-1989.
20s 1990-1999 (did party like it was 1999!!)
30s 2000-2009
40s 2010-2019
50s 2020-present

Gen X was really the best. No phones. No helicopter parents. Free-range.

[Anonymous]

The 90s were awesome; had hope for the future, there was an assault weapons ban after the attempted assassination of Reagan, the Berlin Wall has fallen and the recession was over.

[Anonymous]

The period after Bill Clinton was elected but before the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke was a great time. Awesome music and the world just felt like it was moving in the right direction.

[Anonymous]

This makes me sad for my kids. Born in the early 2000’s post 9/11. I hope they can look back on their lives and have some of the same nostalgia and warm feelings we older people have .

[Anonymous]

I was 19 when 9/11 happened. But looking back, it does feel like the world began slowly unraveling shortly thereafter. I think social media was pretty corrosive too.

In light of how bad things got after 9/11, did OBL “win”? It certainly feels like it.

[Anonymous]

1990s were great.
9/11 ruined so much.
I feel like everything has been awful since then.

[Anonymous]

90s
20s
10s
80s
70s
00s

[Anonymous]

Born in 1974

1990s
1980s
1970s
2000s
2010
now

[Anonymous]

90s--I remember thinking at the time, that it was probably a golden time
00s
80s
70s--I was a kid and teen. I remember the Vietnam War was a constant, then the gas shortage, Watergate, ending with hostages in Iran. It was a stressful time
10s
20s

[Anonymous]

Agree with others. Things really starting changing after 9-11 in ways that today's kids don't understand how much easier life was pre 2001.

For all the "be kind" and so-called tolerance of today, we were much more laid back as a society in the 1990s. Much if it is due to the pervasive and negative influence of social media distorting everything in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with others. Things really starting changing after 9-11 in ways that today's kids don't understand how much easier life was pre 2001.

For all the "be kind" and so-called tolerance of today, we were much more laid back as a society in the 1990s. Much if it is due to the pervasive and negative influence of social media distorting everything in general.

+1

I think this was because mass shootings weren’t really a thing before the late 1990s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything since 9/11 has sucked

True...The 80's were fun. Safer than the 70's - a little edgy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The 70s were the best in terms of culture and because it was my birth to 10 years old decade, it was the time of my greatest innocence and particularly because it was the only time of my life I was free of the male gaze - although not free of molestation by males, sadly.

The 90s were my favorite decade because I spent the entirety of them in college, graduate school and law school and it was the greatest time of self growth and coming into my own in the midst of the last truly hopeful time in this country.

I feel that post 9/11 America, while not American carnage, has never felt as hopeful as 1970s/80s/90s America and I’m not sure it ever will, for me anyway. I also feel strongly that overall the advent of widespread internet use and then the rise of social media has diminished the human experience more than it has enhanced it.

×1000
I could have written every word of this.

[Anonymous]

Best to worse
50S kid growing up in Annandale
80S- got married and started our family retired from Army after serving for 20 years.
70s came back home people seems pissed off and we didn't even has gas, 7-4-1976. went downtown for the 200th anniversary of our independence and ended up meeting my wife Deb. married her 4 years later, and

90S was able to spend time with my kids and everything was affordable
60s- Graduated high school and then went to war.
00- 9/11 wasn't the best day of our history, and how we all changed and started hating on some people for no real reasons, but we didn't know.
10s nothing really happen
20s -- COVID, then hyper inflation

[Anonymous]

The Reagan years were the best!

So much fun. Everything was new. Everything was exciting.

And it capped off with the fall of The Iron Curtain, and the end of the open-air prison that had been the USSR.

Communism is the worst evil history has ever known.