1989-I was 12 years old

[Inthelivingyears]

Totp 2, 1989 tonight, always makes me nostalgic, but sad for a simpler, easier, happier time than currently in our world! Was it really or due to being young I had no idea 🤷🏻‍♀️
Has life/the world become worse since then or is it just becoming an adult

Nah, 1989 was stressful and crappy too. I was about the same age.

I'm also watching and loving the nostalgia. I was 19 and at Uni - it was brilliant (no stress) - but I wasn't in the UK.

It's just being an adult

I was 16. It's rose tinted glasses because you didn't have to worry about mortgages or bills or dying or getting old or where you left your glasses. I remember worrying about nuclear war and the Tories in 1989.

Probably sat crying at the TV..... I was 13 and a massive brosette!

Pre-Internet. I was 16 young free and single my biggest stress was paying my monthly catolgue payments to my mum for my shell suit.

I don’t think the eighties were less stressful or divisive.

Fear of acid rain and nuclear war, AIDS, the miner’s strike.

Brilliant year for me. I was with my first real love, and was out every night under age drinking and clubbing, loving being a teenager. No responsibilities, full time job, living at home.

I had my first dc in 1989!! Hard to grasp I am 50 with a dd 32!!
Seems it was a lifetime ago she was born!

I was 9, but I look back and feel like I hated the 80s! It seemed like the most depressing time for the UK under Margaret Thatcher, and the music in 89 was horrible!

I didn’t exist until three years later 😂

I just say though I always feel a strong connection to the 80s. It’s strange. Maybe in my past life!

Hey birth year twinnie

Yeah l get it but l wouldn't be a young person in todays world. Like navigating a minefield

I was 9. In some ways (many!) it seems like a different world. But in others, it seems like it was only a few years ago. I remember being in last year of first school and going to middle school. I walked to and from sch alone about 20-30 min walk. My DD is 8. I honestly can't get my head around that! And I'm far from over protective!

My youngest dsis was born in 1989. She'd have been about 5 weeks old

I was 13 in 1989 - I only have good memories from that age (except too much Stock Aitken & Waterman in the charts!)

I remember it as being an anxious time.

And bad things still happened- Lockerbie disaster, Hillsborough, strikes, increased flu infections and deaths. Rising inflation, falling house prices, fear of recession, fatwa on Salman Rushdie. Margaret Thatcher!

I was 9, but still remember watching that show at the time. So many good songs!

I was 19, not a Care in the world, student, part time job paid me enough for 2 Es and admission to a rave.
Best days of my life

I was 18, working my first full time job in my gap year between school and uni. Best time of my life, old enough to earn my own money and do what I liked but still living at home with nothing to worry about

Its because you were a child. I was a young adult the and it was a really hard time. Its when the laws changed around rented rooms. Before it was really secure, but that year they were bringing in short term tenancies. So it was awful trying to rent a room because no one would rent until the new laws had come in. Rents were very high.
Unemployment had went down. But sexual harassment was still pretty rife in the workplace. Around this time there was a steady drip of stories in the media about horrific sexual harassment cases in the court.
The Berlin wall came down in 1989. Exciting but we had no real idea what was going to happen,
Carl Bridgewater was murdered and almost overnight lots of newsagents complained they couldn't find teenagers to deliver papers.
Hillsborough happened. That was totally shocking and the Mirror published shocking photos on their front page of people being crushed to death. I can still see it in my mind now. You couldn't avoid the photos if you went into a newsagents.
Inflation was high and there was talk of a fall coming in house prices. I lost money in a house I bought.
You were a child, that is what you are remembering. It wasn't the worst year by a long way, but also not the best country wide that I have lived through.

I would have been 10 then 11 later in the year. It’s not a year I remember particularly fondly, although strangely 1990 is!

I was 2 and my dad hadn't left the army yet so we were living in army accommodation in England. Moved to Scotland with my mum and brother a year later and my dad followed after another 6 months once he'd finished his time.

I saw this tonight too
Kylie and Jason
My claim to fame was that I was in the studio audience in 1994!

I was born in 1989, my sister was 12 though and my brother was 10!