If you could come-of-age during any other (1900s-) decade, which would it be?
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« on: June 08, 2012, 02:13:50 PM »

If you could come of age during any other (1900s-) decade then the one you did so, which would it be? I'll allow two votes, because people can be indecisive. I'll define "coming-of-age" to be turning eighteen.

For me, I'll choose two very different times, but with the same sort of feeling. First, I'll choose the 1990s, for obvious reasons. Second, I say the 1920s, for subjective reasons.

Don't choose the decade that you turned eighteen in...
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« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2012, 02:45:19 PM »

60's and 70's.
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« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2012, 02:47:17 PM »

20s or 60s, though 90s puts up a good fight
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« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2012, 03:11:21 PM »

1910s, 1930s.
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« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2012, 04:15:33 PM »

I don't get why people would choose the 20s. I mean, they were great while they lasted, but then the 30s happened.

I'd choose the 90s.
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« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2012, 04:17:52 PM »

Late 1940s?
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« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2012, 05:39:22 PM »

I don't get why people would choose the 20s. I mean, they were great while they lasted, but then the 30s happened.

I'd choose the 90s.

That's also true, but we'd have no way of knowing at the time. But yeah, in retrospect it makes it a poor choice. Now, if retrospect is given, I'd probably choose 1970s/1990s.
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« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2012, 09:23:49 PM »

90s had by far the best pop culture and the most optimism, so probably then.  70s or 80s would be awful choices for obvious reasons, anything before that would be unbearably dull to anyone living in the modern day.
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« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2012, 11:35:01 PM »

90s were pretty sweet. I can certainly do without any decade that preceded widespread indoor plumbing, air conditioning, and vaccines. That test remains the gold standard for international travel as well.
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« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2012, 11:36:18 PM »

All decades are terrible in their own special ways, but the 90s nostalgia is the dumbest thing ever.
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« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2012, 11:45:50 PM »

The 1990s for me, though I am completely content with having come to age in the 2000s. If I needed to choose another decade it would most certainly be one in the future, not in the past.
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« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2012, 01:02:54 AM »

The 1960s, of course. The peak of Pax Americana.
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« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2012, 08:20:36 AM »

The 1960s, of course. The peak of Pax Americana.
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« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2012, 04:55:32 PM »

1960s for the win.

90s had by far the best pop culture and the most optimism

Stop being such a Naso.
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« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2012, 05:25:50 PM »

Depends if I was rich or poor. If rich, the 1920s. Fascinating era. Would love to have travelled the world back then. If poor the 60s.
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« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2012, 05:59:32 PM »

Definitely the mid-late 1960s.  
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« Reply #16 on: June 10, 2012, 01:58:07 AM »
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I'd rather live in interesting times, where there were things worth fighting for and arguing about. All of those things helped foster incredible creativity and ingenuity. I'm not saying I'm glad everything went down the way it did, of course... but experiencing the magnitude of an era like the 60s firsthand would be enlightening.

Plus, the music was absolutely incredible!
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« Reply #17 on: June 10, 2012, 02:16:09 AM »

The 90s.
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« Reply #18 on: June 10, 2012, 03:38:06 AM »

The 1960s look like the peak of western civilization to me.
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« Reply #19 on: June 10, 2012, 07:01:03 PM »

The 90's. Duh.
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« Reply #20 on: June 10, 2012, 11:25:29 PM »

All decades are terrible in their own special ways, but the 90s nostalgia is the dumbest thing ever.

Not really.
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« Reply #21 on: June 11, 2012, 01:46:11 AM »

90s: technology, optimism, fun etc.
60s: counter-culture
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« Reply #22 on: June 11, 2012, 01:47:15 AM »

The 1960s look like the peak of western civilization to me.
That is a sad way to look at things, I would say the 90's before third-wayism and extreme right wingers destroyed it. (I'm being an optimist here).
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« Reply #23 on: June 11, 2012, 06:46:35 AM »

As a gayer? Now.
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« Reply #24 on: June 11, 2012, 09:07:22 AM »

The 1960s look like the peak of western civilization to me.
That is a sad way to look at things, I would say the 90's before third-wayism and extreme right wingers destroyed it. (I'm being an optimist here).

Neoliberalism had already startead breaking apart the welfare State in the 1980s.
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