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

[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.

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Fascism? Nazism? Slavery? Radical Islamism like ISIS or the Taliban? The Inquisition?

I’m glad we won the Cold War but history is full of a whole lot more evil than the USSR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Fascism? Nazism? Slavery? Radical Islamism like ISIS or the Taliban? The Inquisition?

I’m glad we won the Cold War but history is full of a whole lot more evil than the USSR.

Russia’s USSR was not that evil?

Ok, MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Fascism? Nazism? Slavery? Radical Islamism like ISIS or the Taliban? The Inquisition?

I’m glad we won the Cold War but history is full of a whole lot more evil than the USSR.

Russia’s USSR was not that evil?

Ok, MAGA.

No, center-left Eastern European Jew here.
The USSR was its own horror but I think Nazi Germany, other fascist regimes, ISIS, the Taliban, the Islamic Republic of Iran were/are worse places to live.

[Anonymous]

If you are a woman, now is the best time. More research is being devoted to our medical issues; more of us have maternity leave; we are getting paid better (I still have my $.59 pin); more flexible work options are available…..

[Anonymous]

Age 67. I loved the 80s because I had my kids, my family, and life was magical. Magical. No Internet, nothing. Now, I appreciate all the technology we have and use now, definitely has improved lives in many ways, not so great in other ways, but it was like Brigadoon without it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything since 9/11 has sucked

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

AIDS was safer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything since 9/11 has sucked

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

AIDS was safer?

Yes if a person was not a gay male or drug user.