What time periods would you guys like to have been born in?

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I wish I was born earlier in the 20th century. Like 1915, maybe. Assuming I got to live 80~ years, grow up in the 20s and 30s and see the world change like it did.

I'm wondering if anyone else is drawn to particular points in time? Like if any of you would want to be time travelers to other periods?

I'm glad to live in the 21st century, but I live like it's still 1910 or 1920. Surrounding myself with old things is kind of a nice way to live; I like the ritual of using that kind of technology. Besides, it doesn't cause as much physical distress even if it's more effort to use.

So people make a lot of jokes about me being a time traveler already, but that's OK.

I spent a lot of my childhood and teens with the desire to be alive in past time periods: medieval, English civil war, Jacobite risings.
Interesting times full of exciting events with flamboyant costume options.
Currently, however, I’ve come to the conclusion that all former times would be worse to live in than this one in one way or another... I don’t have enough confidence in humanity to project that forwards and say future time though.
So, I’ll stick with now.

Maybe an eternal stasis of the period 1997-2001 would be nice.

i wouldn't want to have been born in the past, but i'd love to travel back in time to pay visits. i'd start off with the 70s

It would have been cool to roam the Garden of Eden.

The 2030s. A good chance you’ll live forever.

Certainly wouldn’t want to have been born any earlier than I actually was. That would just mean more time waiting for life to get this good.

1947
Miss the war
Get to play and explore in relative safety
Swinging 60's
Rocking 70's
Easier to get on the housing ladder
Watch your property double or triple in value

I like Boomers

About 20-25 years before we make First Contact with a star-faring extra-terrestrial civilization.

I think I'm fine with the time period I was born in (early 1990s). Get to enjoy nature some before himans destroy it all, some technology when I was a kid but not a total takeover yet, enough understanding of autism for me to get by. Location could've been better, I would have adored having a wild area like a forest or something to explore and was disappointed that we had no "haunted house" in our area, but I think the time period was fine for me. In earlier times I would've had everyone telling me I just wasn't trying hard enough when I was actually trying my hardest, just didn't want to do things I actually couldn't do, and didn't give a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys about anything other than my current special interest when there actually is so much more I care about, instead of mainly just my dad telling me these things. I would've been seen as just being lazy and been kicked out of the house years ago so I'd "get off my bum and actually do something," and would've been forced to live on the streets when I couldn't get any sort of job no matter how hard I tried or how many I applied for. Or I would've just been locked away in a hospital somewhere and essentially forgotten about. And the way things are going, the future doesn't seem so great to me. So I think I was probably born in the right time period for me.

Ten years earlier - I think I should have been a flower child, that life style suited me perfectly when I was a teen and into my early twenties. I would have went to uni in California I think.
And I love period movies and enjoy old novels too. From ninjas, shogun, vikings, early man, victorians, crusades, it's all interesting to me. And the future too!

If you were born around that time then you'd live through the Spanish flu pandemic which apparently was more deadly than this one.

I wish I was born about 6 years ago, because this quarantine time is least worrying for young children, as they don't fully understand the seriousness of it and are just happy to get so much time off school and are even less likely to fall ill from coronavirus. Trust me, if this happened when I was 6 years old I wouldn't have been half as anxious about it as I am now.

I have always wanted to be a 80s child purely because of the music.

Believe it or not, on the 100th anniversary of the 1918 pandemic, I came down with it and almost died. H1N1 is the same (I hear) as the Spanish influenza.

Oddly enough I am not even sure if I could have lived through the 1918 pandemic, not because of any reason for sure, but because I made it through this one on modern medicine and still ran an incredibly high fever. I may have been able to manage the 1918 one (assuming I lived then) because perhaps with the world being a bit messier and more arduous, I'd have had a better immune system...it's all speculation, though.

Had I been born even ten years earlier, I would've either died very young or been completely bedridden. Was a close call in the 90s as well, but modern medicine saved me.

As for without my medical problems... eh, still fine with when I was born. If I was a man then earlier might've been fine, but since I'm a woman, I prefer this time to hundred years ago due to the difference between women's rights. Unless of course I would've been born to another country and culture, somewhere where women had equal rights or at least close to it... and if I had to choose a time in the place where I'm from, I'd say early fifties. The war would be over and by the time I'm of working age, there's enough of work for everyone who's willing to work, even for those with no high education. Of course, I'd be hit by the financial crisis in the early 90s, but that's something everyone's got to deal with now anyway.

I've always thought it would be cool to have been born sometime in the late 1970's or early 1980's. I have always been fascinated by the pop culture and technology evolution of the late 80's and 90's to now (like the changes and advancements of computers and mobile phones) and would love to have been able to experience it while still being around in the present.

None. There hasn't been a single time period in human history that didn't have something scary and horrible happening or threatening to happen.

I think the filter on my nostalgia goggles is broken because instead of fondly remembering the 1980's like I used to all I can think about is nukes and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. As long as deadly diseases and nukes exist the human world will never be good.