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QUESTION: Depending on when you were born, what decade did you enjoy the most? The 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s or 2010s?
Talk about it….
The 70s. A cool time to be a teenager. A cool decade in general.
The best music is from the 70s!
The 80s is my spirit I would rather go back to the ’80s
What I miss most is going to play video games at the arcade rather than playing video games on the phone I love those classic video games nowadays newer game cost $2 while classic arcade games only 25 cents for just a token
I love to order Airlines such a PSA and Air Cal, TWA, Westetn Aurlines and US Air
I love the old fascinated phone before cell phone took over landline phone for very popular
Old television was a great electronic back in the ’80s before flat television took over.
Commercials on television in the 80 was way better than what we have right now
Before a Spam call took over back in the 80s we would just go to bunch of prank calls from other teenagers and that’s one before caller ID was born.
Looking at the map was more fun to solve than it was to look at the GPS.
It’s a lot more but there’s too many to list
I enjoy all of them “first part of this one is a little rough but I see good times ahead” Been here for six of them and cannot say I did not enjoy my life. I hope this is not unique.
The ’70s, no question about it,
I made friends I still have, music I still listen to, and cars I still love to drive.
I loved my job, had a great lifestyle, and had a carefree attitude.
1970s – could go dirt bike riding often, camping, fishing, target shooting out in the open without people freaking out (kids in high school had gun racks in their pickups, usually with 30-30s and nobody freaked out) , worked but it was not the “watch your back” era yet – employers were glad to get you and keep you
Probably for me the 1990s because I finally had a decent income rather than being a “starving musician”. That’s because my work in the 1980s on the side as a computer programmer paid off. However “hands down” worst decade in my life has been this one. I’m sure that others here may feel the same way.
I spent a majority of the 80’s in service, so I’d lean that way
for nostalgia.
But this decade, I’m at the top of my earnings arc, women
no longer enthrall me, for the most part.
And I’m not in a hurry to get anywhere
or leave anywhere.
I have the patience and time to read deeply on subjects that interest me.
And I’m over politics or ideological extremes.
so my answer…this decade, assuming I make it to the end. 🤓
I can’t think of any that were not good. I had fun in my early years, met the woman of my dreams in college, had a great primary career, a big and still growing family, a second “not quite full time career” that I’m still enjoying, we have traveled to about 25 countries and made many trips to Hawaii and have been to 42 states. I have been very blessed.
80s-military, college, friends, sports, employment and most of all Music.
70s…Disco Duck on a 8 track, and getting some Coke for a Friday night.
As the saying goes each age (decade) has its charm. However, for me it has to be the sixties. I was a teenager and in my twenties, and a lot happened over a fairly short period of time. By the time I turned 22 and was an au pair in Westport Ct, I had lived in 3 other countries (including the one I was born in) hitchhiked for 6 weeks through Northern Europe, after leaving Iceland. Got back to Denmark in September of 1966, was very restless, and wanted to see more of the world, by January I was in the US. The next few years were magical, made lifelong friends, dated, partied, fell madly in love. Westport was a small town, no matter where you went, the beach, a bar other hang out places you ran into someone you knew. After 2 years and a few months back in Denmark, I moved to New York City with girl friends, it took me awhile to get use to NY after Westport, but eventually I did, again it was a magical time to be young, great music, although I had a more serious job than being an au pair, I still managed to have a good time. Most of the seventies I was married, in the eighties I had my daughter, a different kind of magical, got divorced, made new friends in the Scandinavian Club (many are still my friends), to quote a sixties song “to everything there’s a season”.
First, will say certainly not my 60’s yet. Many changes coming and fast, likely for the better. I’d have to say my 40’s. Best job, best friends, best Managers all the way around.
The decade would be the 2000’s.