It occurred to me, as I turn 56 next month, that I'm no longer a spring chicken BUT I got to be a kid during the 70s and finish "growing up" in the 80s. I think I really hit the jackpot.
I do think I would have enjoyed moving back about 10 years, because hell, it would have given me another decade to try to break into the music biz!
I think I turned up at the right time for so many things. I arrived at about the same time as Sputnik. Saw a lot of the world before air travel meant you missed most of it, had the music of the 60s,70s and 80s and the best movies... Benefitted from modern medicine and the internet and established a home and family before those things priced me out. Now I dont think I will have to go through some of the tougher parts of what the next century will bring most people.. So I'll take it...😷
I agree. Im also 56. I've often thought being 5 to 10b years older would have been perfect for me. Having much older siblings i was always into music, but kinda just missed being fully on board with with glam, punk, new wave, new romantics coz i was too young. But, it was a great time to grow up in the UK. X
I was born in the mid-fifties just after food rationing ended in the UK. I was a teenager in the late sixties and early seventies with miniskirts, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, and all the other great bands of the era. We were there when Black Sabbath revolutionised rock. Computers were just starting to be something that ordinary people might have access to with a bit of effort. Digital electronics and microprocessors were just about to become mainstream. I grew up in a time of great optimism even though there were hiccups like the Oil Crisis, the miners' strike, the Falklands war, the first Iraq War.
I don't think I would swap the second half of the twentieth century for any other period in history. And despite the challenges of the last twenty years a lot of people are doing better now than at any time in recorded history
@Firestarter [quote]What is food rationg?[/quote] A typo for food rationing :-)
During and after the Second World War most European countries didn't have enough food to allow it to be used willy-nilly so it was rationed. Everyone had a ration card that entitled them to buy certain quantities of certain staple foods such as flour, vegetables, meat. In the UK it stopped in 1954. During the war sugar was rationed and the dental health of the population improved.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom
Next time some reactionary tells you that life was so much better in the past you can direct them to that Wikipedia page
I'm a little older than you but grew up in the 70s and finished my teens in early 80s.
I had great opportunity that I probably would not get now. I never went to university for example but still had a professional career. I'd not have had that later.
Were the same age and I think I should have been at the latest the 1920s but I that I want to be teenager in the late 1800s
Why do I say that. Because my vast knowledge is from the birth of photography and the birth automobile. I am a living encyclopedia of them things and many other early 1900 turn of the century items.
I don't know as I have no idea what it is like to grow up in other times. Location is crucial too. I'm damn glad I wasn't growing up earlier at the same location.
I wish my son and I weren't living in this current BS. I got a taste of the 80's and enjoyed the 90's a lot. I definitely think I would of enjoyed the 60/70's a lot.
I think I lived at the right time for me. Whenever I want to recapture the feeling of being a young adult in the late 70s I watch a movie that came out when I was in college, "Between The Lines". [media=https://youtu.be/GVJyvyNRUf8]