If you could come-of-age during any other (1900s-) decade, which would it be?

[N.i.K.]

If you could come of age during any other (1900s-) decade then the one you did so, which would it be? I'll allow two votes, because people can be indecisive. I'll define "coming-of-age" to be turning eighteen.

For me, I'll choose two very different times, but with the same sort of feeling. First, I'll choose the 1990s, for obvious reasons. Second, I say the 1920s, for subjective reasons.

Don't choose the decade that you turned eighteen in...

[ChairmanSanchez]

60's and 70's.

[dialectical fetishist]

20s or 60s, though 90s puts up a good fight

[Simfan34]

1910s, 1930s.

[IDS Legislator Alfred F. Jones]

I don't get why people would choose the 20s. I mean, they were great while they lasted, but then the 30s happened.

I'd choose the 90s.

[Insula Dei]

Late 1940s?

[N.i.K.]

I don't get why people would choose the 20s. I mean, they were great while they lasted, but then the 30s happened.

I'd choose the 90s.

That's also true, but we'd have no way of knowing at the time. But yeah, in retrospect it makes it a poor choice. Now, if retrospect is given, I'd probably choose 1970s/1990s.

[crypto-fascist superhero]

90s had by far the best pop culture and the most optimism, so probably then.  70s or 80s would be awful choices for obvious reasons, anything before that would be unbearably dull to anyone living in the modern day.

[memphis]

90s were pretty sweet. I can certainly do without any decade that preceded widespread indoor plumbing, air conditioning, and vaccines. That test remains the gold standard for international travel as well.

[oakvale]

All decades are terrible in their own special ways, but the 90s nostalgia is the dumbest thing ever.

[Redalgo]

The 1990s for me, though I am completely content with having come to age in the 2000s. If I needed to choose another decade it would most certainly be one in the future, not in the past.

[All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.]

The 1960s, of course. The peak of Pax Americana.

[memphis]

The 1960s, of course. The peak of Pax Americana.

Lolwut?

[Proud Lieberal from Northeast]

1960s for the win.

90s had by far the best pop culture and the most optimism

Stop being such a Naso.

[politicus]

Depends if I was rich or poor. If rich, the 1920s. Fascinating era. Would love to have travelled the world back then. If poor the 60s.

[Frodo]

Definitely the mid-late 1960s.  

[All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.]

The 1960s, of course. The peak of Pax Americana.

Lolwut?

I'd rather live in interesting times, where there were things worth fighting for and arguing about. All of those things helped foster incredible creativity and ingenuity. I'm not saying I'm glad everything went down the way it did, of course... but experiencing the magnitude of an era like the 60s firsthand would be enlightening.

Plus, the music was absolutely incredible!

[Governor Scott]

The 90s.

[Californian Tony]

The 1960s look like the peak of western civilization to me.

[For Oklahoma]

The 90's. Duh.

[Senator Napoleon]

All decades are terrible in their own special ways, but the 90s nostalgia is the dumbest thing ever.

Not really.

[ModerateCoward]

90s: technology, optimism, fun etc.
60s: counter-culture

[ModerateCoward]

The 1960s look like the peak of western civilization to me.

That is a sad way to look at things, I would say the 90's before third-wayism and extreme right wingers destroyed it. (I'm being an optimist here).

[afleitch]

As a gayer? Now.

[Californian Tony]

The 1960s look like the peak of western civilization to me.

That is a sad way to look at things, I would say the 90's before third-wayism and extreme right wingers destroyed it. (I'm being an optimist here).

Neoliberalism had already startead breaking apart the welfare State in the 1980s.