Do you Wish you were born in another decade/century?

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I'd probably wish to be born in the future more so than the past. That is, given that conditions have improved a bit. xD I just know that the past was not always friendly to women or those with AS alike.

I wish I could have been alive in the 60s, there is just so much I find intresting and enjoy from that time period. Also it would have been awesome to see Pink Floyd in concert in their early days.

I like the 60's also. The late 1860's -- post Civil War.

ruven

No I would not.

I wish I was born in the 1940s, when jobs were easier to get. My nan said that she hated a job she was in, so she walked out, then walked into another place and asked for a job, and she started the job 2 days later.

I would like to be either born just now with all this technology, or born in the future with even more technology. I hate being my age right now but I definitely wouldn't want to be born in the past because of the lack of technology. What would I do without my iPod? Or the Internet? I need them to live. Imagine 100 years from now what technology is going to be like if the world is still here.

I want to be born sometime in the future. I am more interested in the future than the past.

I really don't want to live in the past. I prefer to live in the present. I do have interests around certain time periods, though. I've been interested in the 17th century, the period between the two world wars and the 1960s. At the moment, my interests centre around New York in the 70s.

I'm interested in the future...but I don't know if I'd want to visit it because that would spoil the surprise and screw up the space-time continuum.

I wish I lived before any math was invented, that way I would've gotten credit for inventing it, unlike today where it is just a contest of who reads the book more

The past was laughably primitive. I think that, despite the media's pessimism, the future is very promising. I wish I was born in the next century, at least.

Sometimes I wish I was born in the late 70s so I could grow up won the 80s with the music, movies, cartoons, arcades and the NES.

I was born in 1936. Yup. Those were the days.

I picked a good time to retire., Just before the economy went into the tank.

I am sorry to be pessimistic, but I don't think you will see any major growth for some years. It will take us a minimum of five years of belt tightening just to -begin- to dig ourselves out of this hole.

ruveyn

There are periods of history that I am particularly interested in, but I'm not sure I would want to live in those times. I think it would be very hard for an Aspie to live in most previous centuries or cultures. Plus healthcare was dire. My ggrandmother had to have both her legs amputated because of diabetes and there is a history of low life expectancy in my family.

Anyway, my favourite time, despite its obvious negative points was the late 70s and early 80s. I think if I could have been born maybe 10 years earlier, in the mid 60s, then that would have suited me perfectly. I'm not so comfortable with the increasing technology in our society, although without it I would not be writing this message.

I don't think it would've made any difference when and where I was born. They all got their upsides and their suckiness.

I am grateful that I got out high school prior to the social networking boom. With all the cyberbullying that goes on, I would've have been able to cope with that as a teen. I wouldn't gotten the full blunt of it in middle school.

I wish I could live in a Jane Austen novel!

This.

I have a fondness both for historical and future sci-fi worlds and like to imagine living in both. However, there are serious drawbacks to the past in regards to equal rights, and I fear the future... well, what nemorosa said.