1980's, when I was 19-29. Maybe because it was my 20's, maybe it was the decade of the 80's.

Yes, I graduated from college in a recession with high unemployment, but it didn't affect me much at 21. I found an okay starter job (after working retail for a few months) and then went to grad school.

What I get from this as someone who is 38 is coming of age in post-9/11 was the ultimate shaft

80s
90s
00s
70s
10s

Anonymous wrote:If you are old enough to remember the 1970s... which decades were the best and worst from your own experience?

Not just your personal place in life, and not just global issues and politics either, but a combination of the two. When do you think was the best and worst time to be alive? Culturally, financially, politically, professionally, socially etc.

I'll play.

Best: 1990s
1980s
2000s
1970s
2010s
Worst: 2020s


Being in my 20s in the 1990s was insanely fun; I was mostly single in the city, but met DH in 1997.
1980s teenhood was great.
2000s, kids were little, politics were stable
1970s, there was some economic depression and family angst, but I sitll had a decent childhood
2010s, the Trump years, lost a parent and other loved ones. But my kids were nice.
2020s, the pandemic, ensuing political craziness, more parental illness, the nice kids are now grouchy teens.

80s
90s
70s
10s
00s

The 90s were awesome.

I'm 57, and the 80s were fun for me, but constant threat of nuclear war, plus a recession when I graduated from college.

The beginnings of 2000s were hard with 9-11, then the Iraq war, and tech recession.
Then there was the Great Recession.

The Obama years were almost as good as the 90s, but came to a halt when our parents stared to die around 2015. Has sucked ever since.

Anonymous wrote:80s
90s
2000s
2010s
70s
2020s

Same here.

1990s (young adulthood)
2010s (happy and stable)
1980s (high school and college)
1970s (I was a child)
2000s (stressful - illness and death of best friend)

But it's really not that useful a measure. Many things happen in the span of 10 years. Some years in each decade were terrible, and some were great.

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

1988 was great.

Everything was great until around 2001.

(Age 50)

Those of us who are 50 now were 10 years old in 1983 and didn't finish undergrad until 1995. My answer would be that the late '90s were great, but really, I wasn't an adult until that point even though I was somewhat aware of political and financial tensions at certain points before then.

Obviously, the post-911 world has sucked deeply.

80s here also

80s
90s
2000s
2010s
70s
2020s

80's were the best.

Everything else.

If you are old enough to remember the 1970s... which decades were the best and worst from your own experience?

Not just your personal place in life, and not just global issues and politics either, but a combination of the two. When do you think was the best and worst time to be alive? Culturally, financially, politically, professionally, socially etc.