I always hear that people say that people were happier & nicer in the 80s this could have truth to it people were more optimistic back then

I think Ive posted this before. The only time the UK has felt postive and optimistic in my lifetime was the early 1960s before Heath got in. We are famously the centre of the pop music revolution, but also fashion, and we still made cars, and even ships, and even semiconductors, and even had our own nuclear weapons - note to all the US decides weather or not we launch our tridents - they are not ours - they belong to trump and he is fast looking like our enemies friend - so where does that leave us ??? It wasnt just winning the World Cup, it was in part the lead the US took under Kennedy - and it wasnt like the nuclear war didnt nearly happen but ti was that the human race had a big idea to work toward - the moon - and it was in everyones psyche I'm sure. It didnt matter that escaped nazis and gun ho yankies were doing it - it was the boldest thing man had ever attempted and it inspired, even a tired war torn Britain to believe. Then of course there were miniskirts, minis, and the real beginning of consumer electornics - remember in the 50s everyone kept food in pantries and used dollys to rinse their clothes. Life go better. Does it now ??

Guy you had to live in the time to even judge it.

There was parts of the country that were really bad in every decade.

I was traveling around at that time. No two parts were the same. And not all of them were good.

I was never optimistic in the 80s. Thatcher sold us out to the US. So the only optimistic people around would have been the bankers and what happened in 1987 - the bankers were found out for having screwed us up. Until they dropped us in it again and again since as well. So no - the early 60s is the only time Ive known the country to be optimistic, before they realised th ereality that the US was taking us to the cleaners. Blairs government did start on a wave ot optimism and the transfer of interst rate control to the BOE but the Gulf War and ERM blew that away

The older generation were more traditional. Values and morals have changed based on what grandparents and great grandparents have passed on.

You can’t really know and unfortunately, some people have a bad habit of romanticizing the past and blocking out the difficult parts.

I was born in '86, so I can neither confirm nor deny that.

Not really

Optimistic, yes.
Nicer, ehhh maybe.

Idk about that, but there was more freedom when laws are not on crack back then.

there was no internet..