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 90s it was so simple back then had my son in 2003 still a simple life.
I think for me it was a time when people just got on with things a lot better no one had their heads glued to SM.
Young single mums didnt get looked down on as much.
The times when you met someone in person or by chance not online dating.
When parents would parent children.
When women never find offence in everything and not scared to look after their own children on their own.
When mums were house proud now they can't clean up because they have a baby.
Or have to hire a cleaner.
Times when you could get a job and not need a stack of paper to prove you can do the job.
Men were men now they cant get anything right.
I dont get the school gate mum friends thing i thought your kids went to school to make friends now its all my school mum friends.
We used to talk to school mums when dropping off and picking up our kids and leaving it at that no drama.
Every thing starts with some sort of SEN nowdays.
People dont pick up the phone or dont reply to messages for days on end but when you meet up they are constantly on their phone.

Sometimes i miss the 30s & 40s thats an odd one as i wasn`t born then.
I was born way after my time.

No, I am not missing my youth. I had a lot of health problems and I was always worried about money. Now at a later age, my life is a lot better and I have so much less to worry about. but the outside world is in an era that doesn’t suit me and it won’t change in my lifetime, or ever.

I am not counting a lot of the political and economic things that people talk about. It’s social and cultural factors that were better for me. So I’d like to be the age I am now - but in the social background that we had in the 90s and early 00s. I’d especially love to have the world back that didn’t require use of tech to do the smallest things.

A op mentioned a sweet spot in terms of tech, that was ideal. Using it for fun but not being forced to use it for everything, especially at work. If my life ever flashes before me, a horrible amount will be “learning yet more boring tech to earn a living”.

music remains a constant thing that’s great, I love all of it. A lot of things are great for me personally but when I compare the social background, it’s a planet of difference.

@teabooks if you feel a bit country, there’s a song called Born Too Late by Steve Forbert that you might like

ds is 20 and living his best life. Uni, working PT, has disposable income and can go on holidays with his large group of friends.

There was lots going on in the 80s when I was the same age that my parents worried about and either just went over my head at the time or we just got on with. Thatcher, Aids, unemployment, the cold war, Chernobyl, mortgage interest rates, IRA, etc etc.

I am sure ds will look back on the 2020s fondly as the best time before the realities and worries of adulthood set in and some friends start moving off to start their own families/move away for work and lose contact etc.

Also some posters might like this

his reference to a “constant drumbeat of punishing input” really resonates

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=inJm6usW_I0&pp=ygUfRWxlbWVudGFyeSBzaGVybG9jayBib3JuIHNwZWVjaA%3D%3D

London 2012 olympics is a high water mark for me. Public services celebrated, community, creativity, the arts, diversity, hard work, self confidence, and achievement. Traditional and modernity all aspects of our national story.

It’s not about my personal milestones - the happiest and best parts of my life all centre around my children.

If I were to describe what the current period feels like it’s rundown, division, commodification, nothing works, selfishness, aggression under the shadow of war. I heard a government minister saying that they would go for a later election because by then they would have deported people to Rwanda. That’s the progress, optimism and hope offered to us as a country? Seriously 😧

Is this for real? 😧

Whoops wrong quote

Phew, I was wondering what I'd said that was so shocking...😂

@Tlolljs
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."

Normally I would agree with you except what I miss is the period of "Cool Britannia" which ran from the mid 1990s to mid 2000s with the finale being the London Olympics of 2012 rather than a period of my youth.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Britannia

Specifically I miss the pride in British culture and society which too many people now want to criticise or mock.

But by far the biggest thing I miss from that period is the feeling of hope for the future which is so sadly missing today.

I was already middle aged at that time. It was a mixed time as every era is. Some good things and bad.

Trouble is that many of those "big names" have buggered off to tax havens and are spending their millions elsewhere, thus not contributed to the economy. The likes of pop stars who actively plan the dates and locations of their World tours to avoid being tax resident, top athlete tax exiles who had to be bribed with tax concessions to attend the London Olympics, works of art that are sold offshore to avoid UK tax and VAT, etc.

Well my husband who was in the armed forces at the time and went to Iraq I can still tell you it was a better time to raise children . He finally got decent pay , the school weren't begging parents for donations , Ha you could certainly see the GP the same day .
Some people on here are consoling themselves by saying your only saying that because of your youth . It's not .
Me and my husband were raising our family and yes times then were better then for raising families .
9/11 was indeed a horrific thing .
Did you know the devastation the IRA caused ?
In the 70s they blew up a bus of armed forces personnel and their families .

I think we all think back to when we were younger and there were less responsibilities etc.

Well I'm 64 and have no responsibilites at all now, but did have in earlier years so that doesn't apply to me. Through my work I have seen the number of young people and adults with problems increase in recent years. Something is badly wrong with society today and I can't imagine how anyone will look back at today and say how great it was.

@IloveAslan You are absolutely right there is something wrong with society today . Where is the hope for a bright future ? Where is the hope gone ?

Me too. All of my family at home, shared a room with my big sister, Mum still healthy and fiesty always glam, sat night in front of the TV (38 at the min) then when old enough out with my mates til early hours.

Makes me sad. Feel old and ugly now. Started to lose family members. Having bad week mental health wise this week an just keep thinking about back then.

Of course the early 00s were amazing l, they were built on the world's biggest fraud. Everyone had more money then they knew what to do with, everything was getting cheaper because of china, property was easy to buy because you could self cert 105% mortgages.

It was all a vapid dream that no one on the high street had the ability to see. The 07 banking crisis was the early 00s coming home to roost.

Think about this way, the 00s is that party you went to when 19 where everyone was beautiful, the drink was free and you stayed up for 24 hours taking every drug known to mankind whilst being wilidy promiscuous.

The inevitably of a guaranteed hangover makes everything after feel horrific in comparison.

The western world is still paying the price from that period and will be for at least another decade.

I think enjoy now. I look at the volatility in other countries and think it’s just luck. I know mn generally is quite down on this but I am aware of the state of other people’s lives

Plus on a basic level I house shared back then and was at start of my career and dating, none of which I miss

70s, 80s and 90s.

I hate all this living in past. Get over it. Make the most of now.

Yes, it's a lack of hope. Whatever happened in past decades there was always hope for a brighter future, but that seems to be lacking now.

I moved to London as a graduate trainee in 91, with a starting wage of 14k. By 1995 I was on double that, and my then-boyfriend (now husband) was on about the same, we rented a one-bedroomed garden flat in Balham for 650pm. We were loaded, out at least four nights a week, restaurants out, clubbing at the weekend, lots of weekends away to Amsterdam, Budapest, etc. It absolutely blows my mind when I see UK wages don't seem to have moved on much at all, especially with housing prices as high as they are,. I moved away from the UK in 2003 and feel like I had a lucky escape when I visit now. So while I feel lucky to have had a great time back then, I don't feel too nostalgic as in many ways my life is better now. But they were fun times.

I enjoy a little nostalgia, even for times long before my own life. I know things were never perfect, and in many ways we're among the most fortunate people in history to live where and when we do, but sometimes it feels like the world's gone mad, and I worry about what the future holds. It's nice to slip back into my fantasyland version of the past for a little holiday from cold, harsh reality. I just ignore the outside world and pretend I'm where/when I want to be.

I have high hopes that things will be on the up soon. Not that Labour is particularly inspiring but it’s got to be better than the current shit show. It will take a lot to start putting things right and there is much that cannot be undone but I am still hopeful that my children will reach adulthood in better times. I have amazing memories of working in the civil service in London late 90s and 00s. It was a great time to be in the public sector.

That's an insensitive thing to say when some people in society don't have the ability to "make the most of today." I'm just about the most optimistic person going, but I cringed when I read your post - try telling that to someone to "get over it" who's at risk of eviction due to Section 21 (including former serving military), or someone who is having to care for elderly relatives and children one of whom is disabled with no provision for support because services have been cut to the bone, or who can't work due to long COVID or someone who's having to survive on minimum wage whose bastard employer doesn't even give them paid holiday or secure work and employment rights.

There is a lot of extreme suffering out there, right now, and if thinking about happier times is what helps our country get through this bleak era, where hope is mangled and non-existent, who are you to say otherwise.

I know your opinion is as valid as the next person's, but maybe think about what it actually means to someone reading it.