Americans and immigrants just got more greedy after the 90s and that is why we are how we are today.

less tech
lots of cheap travel
a sense of optimism

the gulf war & the atrocities of rwanda & the bosnian war were really awful

Now everyone even dcumers are age is and put dowdy twenty somethings on a pedestal. Respect the 90s people people.

I guess “great” is relative. Compared to now it was certainly much better. We weren’t all monitored and controlled the way we are now, constantly getting spammed by garbage in every direction, and globalization hadn’t yet hosed up everything.

The imbeciles of the world were generally confined to writing an angry letter to the editor, but now we have to pander to every idiotic issue that every wackjob has. It is not good for the race as a whole to have the ability to communicate and receive information as it does now. People are better suited to smaller communities and ecosystems. There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle though.

Anonymous wrote:It was the last time the LMC could get a piece of American dream. We came to US in 1992, my parents started in menial jobs, and by 1996 they got union jobs with benefits and bought a 2 bedroom coop in a blue collar part of Brooklyn. All that set them up for a modest but enjoyable retirement 20 years later. Can't be done anymore.

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Again, this. So true!

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Anonymous wrote:Because you were a kid. This isn't hard.

Exactly. If you had a good childhood it’s easy to overlook bigger societal problems.

I wasn't a kid. I finished graduate school, moved to DC, and remember it as the last affordable time to live in DC before the investors and developers took over DC real estate and every store and storefront was owned by a bank or a Starbucks or a chain restaurant or clothing store.

Sigh the good old days

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This is so true! This might sum matters up quite well.

Rip low housing in metro areas. Hello gentrification and transits.

It was the last time the LMC could get a piece of American dream. We came to US in 1992, my parents started in menial jobs, and by 1996 they got union jobs with benefits and bought a 2 bedroom coop in a blue collar part of Brooklyn. All that set them up for a modest but enjoyable retirement 20 years later. Can't be done anymore.

It was largely before / right on the edge of social media and 24/7 “news” cycles. Society would be much better off with both of those things gone

Anonymous wrote:The 1990’s were horrible.

It was a lot of gaslighting that things are great when it didn’t feel that way. I much prefer the real ness of radar, insurrections and all.

You prefer insurrections to….the ‘90s?!! Sadist!

The feeling of optimism - remember the “end of history”? Talk about hopeful naivety.

But I remember 96-2001 very fondly. It was a nice time to be American. Maybe the last nice time.

Music and movies were sooooooooooooo much better.

Anonymous wrote:The future still felt promising and the current circumstances were also good.

Our current circumstances are horrific and the future is bleak.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because you were a kid. This isn't hard.

Exactly. If you had a good childhood it’s easy to overlook bigger societal problems.

I wasn't a kid. I finished graduate school, moved to DC, and remember it as the last affordable time to live in DC before the investors and developers took over DC real estate and every store and storefront was owned by a bank or a Starbucks or a chain restaurant or clothing store.

Sigh the good old days

Anonymous wrote:All of my friends and I look back fondly on the 1990s. It seemed like the height of truly functional society and definitely the last great decade to be a kid. The biggest political scandal involved a BJ, not an insurrection, and IMO children had the perfect balance of technology and analog, live outdoor playtime. People seemed so much less uptight. Life was good. Music was good too, and movies. Is this just rose colored childhood nostalgia or were the 90s actually the best time in America? (Not for other countries of course, especially Eastern Europe)

it is the 30 year old goggles.