Anyone miss the early 2000’s and feel sad that we’re moving further away from those time?

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Just that really. I know every era had its ups and downs. I do remember the downs of the early 2000’s as well as the ups but I just think it was generally a better time with less depressing things going on and more community feel and support. I grew up in that time period and yeah I didn’t have the best childhood and there was crappy times but also there was loads of great times. I would love to experience the 00’s as an adult. If only time machines actually existed lol. I feel sad that my kids will never experience the early 2000’s and how time has passed by. I know I sound like a saddo lol. I miss the people too.

I miss the 1990s. Things seemed very fast moving and forward-thinking and yet also simpler.

YANBU.

I had DD1 in 2003 as a single parent. I remember the first few months being hard, and struggling to afford food even with family help and then child and working tax credits came in and things were bright.

I had access to training courses, could afford to feed us on a p/t wage and jobs were plentiful.

Things seem bleak today compared to back then. At one point I was even saving for a deposit for a mortgage as a lone parent working in an unskilled job. In the end, I met H who bought us a house with a £15k inheritance as the deposit. The very idea of such a thing being possible now is ridiculous.

I was into clubbing…loved being loved up. We were hard up but could do a weekly shop for about £20!! Had some amazing nights.

We got married, two kids, never have any money now! 😆

And yet so many people feel all this… have no disposable income… opportunities to train, or good health service..

yet still vote Tory, because they identify it as a party for “winners” and homeowners. 😫

I second missing the 90s.

The early 2000s were great times. Boom times. Anyone who bought property then, is laughing now.

The tories are very good at spinning the rhetoric that they are the financially responsible party and I really do not understand why the voting public still falls for it.

Each and every time they have been in power they have run the country into the ground.

We bought H's house for £40k in the mid-2000s. It has just been sold last year and the DDs have over £70k between them in trust from the sale.

Tonight I've just explained to them if they want half a chance of buying the same kind of property they need to save their entire £35k each towards a deposit and even then they'll find it hard.

I 3rd this. Even tween DD sees it as a golden age of fun.

80s for me.

And me, in some ways it doesn’t feel that long ago.

I think everyone has their favourite era. Although, don't think anyone will look fondly back on this one!

Same. It’s the 90s i miss, the 2000s onwards were shit.

OP correct me if I'm wrong but I sense you mean in social and cultural ways. I was an adult for part of the 90s and loved it, also the early 2000s. (Though on a personal level, my life was good up till 2020...just starting to knit it back together now).

I was at a music event tonight that was a tribute to those times and was pondering various things afterwards. Putting aside economics, it was such a different vibe. There's a ton of factors involved but I think people living such large chunks of life online now is a big part of what makes things so different.

I miss it too and while I realise things go in cycles, sadly I think a lot of the stuff that's changed is ingrained forever. The Green Day song "strange days are here to stay" has touched on some of what I'm feeling.

Also I think globalisation is an issue but most people love it. Ironically I saw the 2001 London protests from the office window of a global corporate.

Unless a miracle happens in the next few years I will always remember 1999 to about 2007 as the happiest time of my life though historically I'm starting to think it was a blip. The times we are currently living in are so bleak and self centered, certainly in the UK and the US, and I don't see much if any prospect of things improving.

2007 was of course the start of the global financial crisis. It took a good number of years to recover from that. Then Trump came into power in 2017. Covid in 2020, Russia invasion of Ukraine in 2022, then Supply Chain issues and Cost of Living Crisis.

Everything after 2007 has been a bit shite.

For me they are different but still fondly remembered decades.

1990s-2005 - had finally escaped London, good income, nice house in a village, international job, no baggage.
2005-2015 - a struggle with relationships, bad employers, then had ds in 2008, relationship broke down 2010.
2015 to now - better on all fronts despite covid and CoL. Living in a nice place with good neighbours, nice job, happy ds at a good school. Single & content.

We had a much better government for families . Ooh child benefit went up after sitting at the same level . My husband got decent wages eventually (armed forces ) and tax credits for children . It's all so bleak now .
(9/11 happened 😭 .

I miss the 70s, 80s, and 90s even more.

I feel sad that my kids won't grow up in a time without constant internet, AI, and entertainment all in easy reach. I sound so old and grumpy but when we were kids we literally did run around outside together and make up games because we didn't have the choice of just zoning out on an ipad.

It was a better time. I would never pretend the Labour Party are perfect but they were so much better for the majority of people. Public services were invested in and valued. I am really hoping they get back into power this year.

I miss the 80s and 90s but always thinks of the 2000s as a very ‘nothing’ era. Would have been good if I’d bought property then while it was cheap but I didn’t want that commitment and naively thought I had plenty of time for that. By the time I bought a house in 2006, the house prices had peaked and stayed that way for a good 5 or 6 years so it screwed me over really. Culturally it was very ‘blah’ as well. Preferred the labour government though.

oh man! You really send me down memory lane…. The ‘00s were great, was in my early 20s, life full of potential, sky was the limit. My rent in London was £50pw, I made about £1300pm at the time and thought I was loaded 🤣

Globally yes but personally I got married in 2009 and had dc in 2010 moved job to where I've stayed happily the last 12 years. Altogether the happiest years of my life. I will always remember my years of raising dc even if it has gone by quickly.

Turned 18 in 1996. I miss the 90s and was meh about the 00s. Nostalgic for the early part of the decade but there wasn't much to recommend it to me.

Let's face it, politically and nationally its been bad since 2008, financial crash, tories got in, brief period of coalition and then they stabbed nick &Co in the back to get full power in 2010, 6 short years later and the Brexit vote sealed all our fates for a generation. Covid follows. Ukraine. Gaza. Just wait for Trump to get back in and see how much worse it's going to get!

I think it was because of the millennium. Everyone was full of hope, it was fun, sparkly.

I met my son to be ex DH and we moved in together in 2003. I find it hard to have any fond memories because of the way it ended, which is sad for me.

Let's be honest, this decade has been an absolute shit show for pretty much everyone so far.