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 look back at that time as the sweet spot of the internet- we were connected to information and to each other through mobile phones and email and internet, but we didn't yet have the scourge of constant screen time, social media, online porn etc. It was a much better time in that regard.

I’m going to sound like an old crone but you are all missing your youth. Whatever time period we grow up in we look back with rose tinted glasses on.

Let's be honest it hasn't been great since the tories got in . It's just been one crises after another .We just want the good times back .

I've been rewatching a number of British TV series from that period - Merlin, Dr. Who, Primeval etc, and they are fun, creative, escapist, and entertaining.

Public services were so much better. 2012 Olympics were a highlight. Everything seemed great in the UK (from my perspective, at least). It's been downhill from there. We were even beginning to wake up collectively to our impact on the environment with the Climate Change Act being passed.

Well I don't miss the 1980s or 1990s. That's my youth.

The early 2000s did seem much more positive and well, civilised. Optimistic and I felt the U.K. had a positive potency.

Now it feels like it's in a death spiral.

No I'm not missing my youth . I was a married woman then . I had lots of responsibilities .

It was the 90s for me. We were in our late teens and then early twenties. Uni and settling in London, going out lots (how I miss the Atlantic Bar), having a life like the good bits of One Day(!!), the Labour landslide victory, we won Eurovision and then we and all our friends started getting married and every year had 2-3 fab weddings. Amazing times. In the 2000s we all started having kids and the fun stopped 😂

I’m voting YABVU, because everyone would say this about a different era, that being one they had carefree memories of, when you a teenager and young adult without the responsibility of kids, mortgage, the hamster wheel of life everyday. Everyone would think the period when they were young, carefree and could hang with friends and have fun easily is the best decade. I could say the same about 60’s/70’s. Others would say it about 80’s/90’s etc.

D'ya know what, it gladdens my heart to read you saying things are looking up now and life is moving in a positive direction for you. So much of what we read about is the negatives, it's good to know that despite the monumental challenges and doom, there are success stories out there 👍 we need to celebrate these, as they come from determination and good decisions (and hard work!).

The 00'ies were positive years under New Labour. The economy was in a completely different place, then again the world was very very different - social media, online shopping and OLD weren't really a thing (in fact when I OLDd in 2006, I kept quiet about it, because it was perceived as something for weirdos and quite stigmatised). Whatever criticisms there were about Blair's leadership, and mistakes made, looking back he was a visionary and an inspiring leader, the calibre of which you don't get any more. He set the tone of optimism for the country, it was a positive era.

I don't agree. I did have a mortgage in the 80s/90s, now I'm renting and will be for life. I don't have kids, I don't have responsibilities, and I no longer work - it should be a great time in my life, and parts of it are. However, I still look back at earlier decades and think how much better they were. Life was more simple and uncomplicated, people weren't so selfish, or aggressive, and life was just better.

I was 21 in 2000, just qualified as a teacher. I was able to buy a house on a 100% mortgage on a graduate bank account. I had a Uni loan but, thanks to Labour, I also had bursaries throughout my education as my parents received benefits. As a council estate kid who basically raised herself, I felt there were so many opportunities for me. Teaching was also bloody great then! I loved going to work and I taught in a shite school where only 22% children left with 5 A* - Cs. Maybe I’m looking through tinted glasses and not the eyes of a knackered parent, but life did seem so much better … until the Tories got in.

Not necessarily the case.

I was only a small child in the 1990s and I practically ache for that era! I watch exclusively 90s films and TV, desperately wishing I could have been a young adult then instead of the 2010s/2020s.

The kids must be grown up and the fun can resume now, surely?!

When this hideous perimenopause passes I hope. Roll on being 60!

Hmmm I lived in London in 2001 and I remember the fear of terrorism being massive after 9/11. The illegal war and then 7/7 bombings. It wasn’t all roses - it was quite scary a lot of the time.
Also music was shit by then - full of Darius and Atomic Kitten and Coldplay. Dreadful. Things were still expensive in London too - the pp who said they were paying £50 a week rent in London must have been very lucky - I lived in zone 3/4 and was paying £500 a month on wages of £1300. So it wasn’t all boomtime!

What I miss is the time pre social media. I think social media has done for so much that we valued in any period before. People are so much more selfish and isolationist, and there is less of a community feeling.

And yes. The 00s were banging. A childhood in the 90s and my start of adulthood and my twenties on the 00s were great.

The only thing I really miss about the early 2000s is the fact that I was in my late teens/early 20s! Otherwise, life wasnt any better (or worse) then!

I am obsessed with nostalgia. I stumbled across a group on fb of pics from the 50s and 60s so it’s all folks over the age of 60 gushing at what a better time it was etd, only some of it is clearly rose tinted and some of it is totally bonkers - like now apparently children don’t play in outdoor pools anymore, or go on swings!
I miss the 90s and have started to reminisce over early 2000s too. I yhink it starts to hit most late 30s onwards. Its when we have started to lose the older generations of our family or even our parents, so our connections to those times seems to start to slip away. We start to perhaps get less involved with new music, new tech or fashion so the new stuff starts to become a bit alien, a bit strange and make us want to cling to what we know and love.

I too miss the early 00s but that maybe be because I was 10 in 2000 with no responsibilities.

I’ll probably get crucified for this but what made it a golden time for me was genuinely cheap flights. So long as you were prepared to get up at stupid o’clock you could fly all over Europe for a few quid. We saw so many places and did so much that our kids now can only dream of. We were living like rich kids do now.

It’s not just the travel aspect though; because we went places and met people we felt connected with them, not so different from them and their home but in an analogue offline way that today’s kids won’t get. That probably makes very little sense but that’s how I feel.

Morning Keir!😅

Joking aside, yes. The NHS was much improved, everything seemed much more hopeful. Then 2008 happened followed by 2010 and the Tories getting in. I know it was officially a coalition, but Clegg was Cameron's poodle.

Isn't it fairly common to feel nostalgic about the days of your childhood or early adulthood? Since you weren't an adult OP in that era, your perceptions are not what they would be if you had been. That time was a good time for me because my children were young then - but that's personal to my life stage at the time, not related to what the world was like. Horrendous acts of terrorism were frequent if that helps.

Yes the early 2000s were great. Topped off with 2012, I remember that Olympic year so fondly. Really felt good to be British for all the right reasons.

I've grateful to have been really lucky in my life overall throughout all stages so far.

But although age-wise I was in my prime (turned 18 in 2000, I think), when I look back overall I think of 9/11, war, 7/7, the tsunami, and also I believe a few train and plane crashes, all of which raised a sense of fear, even though chances of being involved were slim.

A decade with a pandemic in is always going to be tough. But my own DS is late primary and has a really happy life so am thinking when he's an adult he might look back on this as a happy decade.

I miss the 90s more with each passing day tbh. It was a time of hope and the future was going to be great.