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.

2000s didn't feel a heck of a lot differently than today. Now my teens-20s era - 70s/80s - now those were amazing! Yes I remember the fuel crisis etc but the music! Less said about some of the fashion....

1990s for sure - the sense of hope and change was palpable.

i was always skint as a teen / young adult who left home at 16 but everything was so much more affordable and I never had to use a food bank despite working low paid jobs or being on benefits. Now many working people need food banks to make ends meet.

i experienced and saw rampant sexism within various workplaces with behaviour that thankfully wouldn’t be acceptable today. I also hated the ladette culture and wasn’t a spice girl fan. Also big museums becoming free in the early 00s was a good thing.

2003 was a great year for me , we had a hot summer and I met my dp . I also took my dd on a lot of free trips due to living in an “ area of social deprivation “.

I don't have nostalgia for the 2000s,- it's a generation thing! For me the 2000s mark the end of the 90s. The 90s for me was free and easy- free university education followed by getting a job. The music scene was great, people still went out and the pubs and clubs were full every night and buying a house was easy as prices were low at the very end of the 90s.

The 2000s for me is where it all started to go down hill- September 11th changed the atmosphere- followed by invasion of Iraq and wars in Afghanistan. House prices rocketed- but that's only good if you already own property, then there was the global financial crash which and I feel we've been living with austerity policies ever since!

I miss the 90s - the music, the clothes, the cheap houses, the affordable travel, petrol prices - £5 half a tank or splash out and fill her up for a tenner, filling a trolley to overflowing in Kwiks and then filling your fridge and freezer and all your cupboards for the week. There was more going on, Saturdays off to local town then round some bars with dinner in your favourite.
The early 2000s were also good to me but in different ways, local jobs and working tax credits, thank you Gordon Brown, I was able to afford to live as a single parent and get out of DV situation.

Yeah, I miss the late 90s, early 00s.

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Oh gosh why does there have to be so much doom and gloom about how things currently are? There has always been awful things going on in the world but also great things. 2000’s feels like a nostalgic time to look back on but I’m personally happier and more content now in my early 40’s.

I'm sure the current generation of young people will eventually look back on the 2020s with fondness- even lockdown will become something to remember fondly for them- not having to go to school, Tik Tok videos, crazy Boris Johnson etc.

The early noughties were great for us. Living abroad, massive disposable income, great holidays. Such a positive time in the uk and abroad.

What it is specifically about the 2000s that stands out as being great? I was in my 20s finishing university and starting full time work, buying my first house and very independent. May it feels like a more freeing and fulfilling time because it was before I had the kids.

I think in 20 years time there will be a post saying I miss the 20s. I think its an age thing rather then an actual time period

I am getting really nostalgic for the nineties now! I seem to remember bright glorious sunshine when Blair won the election and we were all out celebrating. Have to got that right or is nostalgia playing tricks with me?

Yes, and I’m sure our grandparents would have said the same about the 1950s. Essentially we miss being young and carefree. There was nothing golden about the 2000s compared to other decades.

The Berlin Wall came down in 1989 I think. So in the 90s we ‘discovered’ new holiday destinations like Prague. Everything felt new and exciting.

9/11 changed things and everything became more ‘serious’ again.

And I was a junior doctor then. I can say without a doubt that the service we were able to offer patients in the 90s and early 2000s is a world away what we can deliver now, and I say that as a tired old hospital consultant. It’s such a damn shame.

Yes I was at uni, the Internet wasn't a huge thing yet so you didn't spend all day on 'socials' you actually spoke to people and went out.

And we were in Europe of course!

The 90s and very early 00s for me. I find everything now has gone too far- technology, cost of living. Theres no sense of joy and wonder anymore.

I get quite upset thinking about it too much.

I miss the 90s - from uni to marriage 😆
Great era socially
Such a great atmosphere when Blair got in.

Now in early 50s most of my wider family have passed on (only child) and I have too many ailments to count, the ‘empty nest’ times aren’t as fun as I thought they’d be! Plus all the awful news, lockdowns destroying my DCs’ mental health etc. Meh!

There was definitely a national sense of elation about getting the tories out. Even if that happens this year again it won't feel the same. At the time the labour party felt new, different, a breath of fresh air ran by young vibrant people. Now it feels a bit stale.

I’m 60.

The early 2000 and late 90’s were the best years for this country. Everyone seemed happy and foward looking. Everything worked. The 80’s were greedy, but around the turn of the century was the best era.

The Berlin Wall had come down, everyone thought it would bring peace. We had a great government too. I remember Blair winning after years of grey Toryism. The optimism in the country was fantastic. Cool Britannia. Now we’ve got Broken Britain.

Exactly this.

‘Joy and wonder’

l’d add effervescence and a feeling of being united.

I think we all think back to when we were younger and there were less responsibilities etc. I see a lot of 2014-2016 nostalgia online at the moment and that period just feels so safe for me. I’ve heard it as 2016 was safe and 2017 was the start of the downfall which is definitely true for me haha. Realistically we’re all going to look back to a time where we didn’t have the pressures of an arbitrary time limit by which we had to get our shit sorted and when we didn’t have health problems, aging parents and were basically inching closer to death. It’s a tough existential pill to swallow. I think a lot of young people have difficulties in their teenage and early adult days with mental health etc and as you grow up that just gets replaced by greater awareness but also massive existential dread. For this generation covid was the kicker, lots of people feel that the innocence dropped away after that. But for the younger generation, they’ll see this period as their safe period, before some other big world event that will shatter their worldview.
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I don’t agree. My young era was early to mid 80’s.

I found it all quite depressing and grim, even though less at university and had a whale of a time. But Thatcherism and the Cold War weren’t fun.

Social media has a lot of play in this, no opportunity to discuss with everyone how rubbish everything was back then. I had friends growing up that had far worse living standards than we mention on here including into the early 2000s.

What they didn't have was 24/7 access to seeing those who were much better off (or pretending to be).

Agreed. The 70s did not feel like fun. The 80s were more fun but there was always a threat of IRA attacks and Thatcher’s spectre loomed.