£1 million or go back to the 90’s?

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I’d choose to go back and do it all again.

I was 13-23, had an 80’s childhood and 90’s teens/young adult years.
Yes I know many say oh it’s just your youth, everyone feels the same, i‘m not sure if they do, It was an insane time to be young and naughty, we thought those days would last forever…the dancing to house music until 6 am, the booze and cigarettes, listening to indie & Brit pop in pubs, the music, the clothes, the films, the excitement and freedom
Me then, wouldn’t recognise me now

Definitely the million now. Couldn't live through Tony Blair again. It was bad enough the first time.

Besides, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Cash please.

It would fuel my career dreams: whereas in the 90s I was a pushover and so wishy-washy, now I'm in my no fucks era I could rule the world (or at least worry my local competitors 😁) if I just had startup money.

@Youhaveyourhandsfull Yes 100%

Gosh I often think if I could go back in time for one day it'd be a Saturday night at my favourite club in 1997... and as a PP mentioned, watching top of the pops 1996 last night really brought some huge memories back, but a million quid now? Yes please. I can live off the memories.

This!

To be able to go back and see passed loved ones would be priceless ❤️

God no. I spent the 90s in a horrifically abusive relationship.
Wouldn't want to go back to the 70s or 80s either. My childhood was not fun.

I'd go back. It be really interesting. I'd be both more responsible and less responsible. I wouldn't worry about money as I would know which shares to buy plus I'd get a shed load of crypto

1990-1999 I was 20 at the turn of the millennium. What a time to be alive .
The club nights, the dancing , the rave culture. My student days were completely care free and hedonistic and ended up with life long friends.
The pubs and the music
The clothes and the hair
Cheap foreign travel ! It was so easy then- backpacked everywhere - South America, Africa , India , Laos, Thailand
Back packing was still an adventure then

Holidayed in the states , Australia, egypt and China and went on safari (my parents were very keen travellers)

Things worked in the country- trains, hospitals, schools, wages, housing

Pre 9/11 and post Perestroika. Wow i was lucky

i would like the 1 million please, as with time travel its ripples in a pond.

God no! 90s was probably my least favourite decade. Everything improved 1999 onwards. 80s maybe as I would do lots of things differently. Otherwise, cash please.

If I kept all my memories and experience and wisdom? Hell yes I'd go back. I'd make a lot of different choices and invest in Apple stocks. 😂

Knowing what a shit show is in store 2020 onwards, id take the £1M and live a comfortable rest of my life 🤭

that would be helpful, its more the pickle if its mind reset then its hell no

I'll take the cash so I have power over making my life easier (including family), etc. It would mean being able to give up work, buy a couple of new cars, move house to a better area with more amenities and less crazies walking the street, employ a gardener, and take lots of holidays, particularly cruises.

Going back to the 90s wouldn't appeal at all, it'd just mean 30 more years of work drudgery, and having to re live a few very stressful periods of my life.

I'd go back if I knew what I know now and make some radically different decisions. On the other hand if I did that I wouldn't have DD so I think I'd take the million. Now if it was the 80s...........

My era was the 80's and looking back it was a wonderful time.
Left school, first job, college, independence, travel, first house, the music.............

The 90's were fine in there own way (I met my OH and got married for instance) but I wasn't keen on the music.
No, the 90's were not a patch on the 80's for me.

£1m now, without question.

This is a hard decision.

Going back to the 90s would mean I could make different (hopefully better) choices and maybe end up meeting my potential, which I don't think I have.

But then, to do that, I'd have to have consciousness of the life I have led to this point, which means I'd know how much I love my children and consciously choose to never see them again.

So I'll take the million and continue to be a disappointment with amazing children.

The 90s felt so much more optimistic than now. Obviously as I was younger then I had a different perspective but I think global disaster (particularly climate change) didn't seem so imminent and scary.
I hope that young people now are enjoying themselves as much as we did then but I don't see that they are (work in a uni) they all seem anxious and distracted.

In 1990 i was married had 2 children and my DH was on the Iraq border, my Mum was given weeks to live and i had moved to three different camps in the space of 16 months. A tour in NI followed another 4 houses and 3 different countries in less than 3 years. It was crazy but even though it brought stress life was great and the UK was buzzing, everyone had hope, food and goods were affordable, work was normal, people worked hard and played hard, just got on with it. No screens, no sheer bloody madness, no sense of entitlement. I would go back tomorrow.

Live in that house with my father again. I'd pay 1 million not to.

Gimme the mill.

What school & uni again ? Without a total personality transplant I’d have the same shit misfit experience. Now is way better than then.

The first half of the 90's wasn't that great for me and I wouldn't want to have to go through that again, so I think I'd like the money please. Ta.

Similar vintage to you would take the money but I'd be definitely tempted. I grew up in Dublin in the 90s. It was amazing I turned 14 in 1990 so lived my teens and early 20s in that decade. Ireland was coming of age the 80s of recession, mass emmigration and huge unemployment rates were coming to an end, the economy started doing well people were beginning to have a bit of disposable income we were beginning to shed the shackles of the Catholic church, there was a massive youth population who just wanted to party and boy did we. Great memories and so glad to have lived through it.