Yes, as a pp said, my life is like this. I have a cushy WFH job - 2 days a week, (16 hours,) I live in a tiny village with 350-ish people surrounded by a dozen or so farms, the market town near me is 3.5 miles away, and I have countryside all around me, the river, the canal, and woodlands. No children at home (flew the nest a decade ago,) and there are lots of lovely quirky old fashioned shops in the market town. and a twice weekly market with about 50 stalls. No parents alive (or parents in law) so no having to look after them. Community in the village is lovely.
I do sometimes have nostalgia for the 1980s and 1990s, (I was in my teens, 20s, and early 30s then...) but really, at the time it wasn't that easy... My folks were quite poor, I was pushed out to work in a factory at 16, I hated my job, some of the women were bullies, and bills and electrical goods and clothes and shoes etc were high. I was also bullied at school.
The 1990s I had my 2 amazing DC - but me and DH never had any surplus money and were always chasing our tails, and trying to cope with 15% interest rates on our mortgage that ate up half our joint income. Our neighbours in the first house we bought were cunts and drove us out of our house with their noise. (The neighbours when we moved in were fab, but after a year they left.) We only stuck these vile neighbours for 7-8 months then we sold up. (To a private landlord who intended to rent it out, I hope they had some horrific neighbours!) We had some tough times overall...
My (corporate) job in the 1990s and noughties was demanding too, and we were always expected to aim higher, and women were expected to 'have it all!' And we were constantly frazzled! I did go part time - 3.5 days a week when my DC came along, but they made sure I had 4.5 days work in those 3.5 days. (I did 3 days one week, 4 the next etc...)
The 1980s holds some happy memories as well, especially of going on holidays with mates, and having some laughs in the first office job I had after retraining in admin and secretarial. (When I was 20.) Also some lovely memories of nightclubbing with friends, living in a flat in London with my best mate, (for a year!) and clubbing in London, and also backpacking across Europe. Loved the street parties in the 1980s (and 1970s too) for Royal stuff and World cup stuff, and the fact that everyone knew everyone, and I loved going to the pub every weekend and seeing 30-40 people I knew.
And the 1990s holds some happy memories of life with my 2 DC when they were small, and I was the centre of their universe, and me and DH and them went to Disneyland Paris, and New York, and Italy, and Germany, and Spain, and France, and Greece, and The Netherlands, and Belgium. And we had lots of beach days and caravan holidays in Wales, and picnics and lots of fun in the garden and the local park! Some lovely Christmases with them as children too. (And lovely Christmases of my own as a child and also caravan holidays with my folks and brother in the 1970s.)
But do I want that time back? Nah, I like the internet, and my laptop, and Netflix, and being able to stream things, and my smartphone, and being able to watch almost anything at anytime (on youtube) and pretty much having instant contact with my 2 DC no matter where they are. (They live 15-20 miles away.)
I like being able to do things online too, like taxing the car, banking, paying my council tax, sorting our insurance, booking GP appointments, ordering prescriptions and getting them from the pharmacy 3 days later without having to go to the GP to drop the repeat prescription off, then go pick it up 2 days later, then go to the pharmacy and wait half hour for it to be done, and sometimes have to go back if they don't have all my meds!!! Love ordering shopping online too, and finding stuff instantly on Ebay and Amazon that I would previously have had to to spend weeks, and lots of time and petrol money trawling the shops for!
And I enjoy communicating with people on social media, and being able to chat to friends and family 100s (even 1000s) of miles away. And I love being able to instantly share photos, instead of taking them, and waiting for weeks to finish the film, then having to get it developed, and then get extra copies for people, and then having to post them! I also like having 500 songs on a little MP3 player or ipod, player to sit in the garden with (or go on a walk with!)
Will just keep the nice memories! (And try and push the not so nice ones to the back of my mind!)
What you have @sxcizme3010 is hiraeth...