To ask which era you should have lived in?

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Is there an era in history in which you think you'd suit better?
Have you been born into the wrong time?
Perhaps you wish you could have wigged-out at Woodstock, or joined in the mods and rockers riots on Brighton Beach?
Do you suit a crinoline more than a pair of jeans, or perhaps you would rock as a flapper girl?
We would love to know for the podcast!
Thank you!

An era where we still grew our own food and cooked over open fires and didn’t worry about anything beyond our own little community

Possibly I should have been a caveman

Bit further back than your examples but I would have loved to have lived in Henry VIII's Tudor court!

Holland, circa 1970.

One where my children grow up safe and well without the worry of dying from poor hygiene and disease.
We haven't got there yet, at least not everywhere.

I should have been born in the 1920s so I would have been in my twenties in the 1940s and I would have lived in beautiful evening gowns and spent my evenings in smoke filled jazz clubs drinking champagne and then I would have raised my children in the 60s/70s when life was so much nicer overall. I was a child myself in the 60s/70s - it was great and my mum thought so too.

I agree about living in a Tudor court!

My mum always liked the fifties and wanted to be a teen then, which would have made me a teen in the 70s which i like the fashion and the music from then.

But now i think 13 in 1926 at the beginning of the scifi magazines would have been more my speed, i just found the pulp magazine archive online and am reading the old stories in amazing and astounding and it is really exciting to see the magazines as they were and discover the first stories by many famous sci fi writers.

Nostalgia is a terrible thing. I’d like now or even the future if it’s not dystopian.
Who wants to die from a common cold or have your gay family member executed or suppressed? Who wants to die giving birth?
Which woman wants to go back to being a piece of property at best?
I don’t even know the obsession with the 20/30/40/50’s lifestyle. Who wants to be segregated? 50’s would work only if you’re a white wealthy male like the idiots on Mad Men.
I like it now, I can wear a crinoline, divorce my DH if I fancy, work, and have the law on my side if lecherous twat tries to rape me.
People think the good old times people were nicer, they were not; we just hide stuff better.

1920/1930. Agatha Christie era. Seems like bliss (if you had money, of course!) the reality may have been less lovely.

I wish I had been born post internet.

Almost having the lives my children have.

Every bit of knowledge at a click instead of having to write off for information and wait for the post. Or visit a library which involved bus journeys.

Remember wanting to do something that you had to fill in the form for.

Being 200 miles away I had to write for a form, wait till I was sent the form then fill in the form and send it back.
Then I was too late and they were full up.

Utterly frustrating.

I would have liked to be a high priestess of Avalon.

I think I'd like to have been born about 8years before I was. I'd have had a really good 90s as a young adult instead of a teenager. The bands I'd have seen!

18 in 1985 (when I was actually born). I'd have seen so many bands.

I would love to have been a teen in 1980s America, I get this strange feeling of nostalgic familiarity when I watch 80s films or listen to 80s music. Just lovely.

As someone who lived through the 60s and 70s growing up I think people look on them with nostalgia because it was a much simpler time.

However that was probably because people knew their place.

I just found the time oppressive. That could be because I didn’t like my place and didn’t accept it

Austen times. I have really pale skin, big tits and curly hair.

I'd have been a supermodel 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm happy with what I got. I love iphones, comfortable beds, nandos and vaccinations so previous eras wouldn't do. Also I don't want to live in dystopian hell so the future is no good.

A Victorian cook.

This: An era where we still grew our own food and cooked over open fires and didn’t worry about anything beyond our own little community

I think I'd have made a good mediaeval person.

But also this: One where my children grow up safe and without the worry of dying from poor hygiene and disease.

I don't think they are compatible

Wealthy, single Edwardian lady with no intentions of ever marrying.

I wonder if people would be so keen to have grown up in past eras if they had been poor

I definitely think I was born in exactly the perfect time for me. 1975, so had all the nineties clubland rave scene fun (15-25) but also had a ton of privacy cos we barely had phones.

And now I'm young enough to really enjoy the Ireland of today which is a really exciting and optimistic place to live where my kids can be who they want to be, marry who they want to marry, and work where they want to work.

No other era could possibly compare! I love this one so much.

Call me shallow, but I’d love to have been an aristo at the French court around the latter half of the reign of Louis XIV.

At court in the time of the Yorkist kings