What decade is it best to grow up in?

[NYCBlue]

Re: What decade is it best to grow up in?

I grew up in the '70s. It was pretty grim really. 3 day week. Energy crisis. Blackouts etc. Came of age in the '80s. Thatcher's Britain. Unemployment. Miner's strike. Falklands war. City were shit. I wouldn't change anything about my life though. I always had a great time though and I still do. Long may it continue.

[NYCBlue]

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I grew up in the '70s. It was pretty grim really. 3 day week. Energy crisis. Blackouts etc. Came of age in the '80s. Thatcher's Britain. Unemployment. Miner's strike. Falklands war. City were shit. I wouldn't change anything about my life though. I always had a great time though and I still do. Long may it continue.

I worry what will be left for our kids and grandkids though.

[The Bloop]

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why? social media and smart phones are great

Of course they are- I'm grateful that I'm of an age which allowed me a childhood without them, whilst appreciating their benefits as an adult.

[Fatty Thornton]

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Not sure id like to be a kid growing up now with everything around social media but there’s more opportunities now than in the 70s

Happy with the 90s/2000s personally

I always think 'how far back can I remember' and it's usually always 1990, the World Cup. As an aside a year later I was walking around town with my Mum when Ian Rush scored in that friendly and we heard the roar from the Arms Park! I started Comp in 1992 and through to 1997 then onto Uni until 2002. If I could choose, I'd have liked to have been born maybe 5-10 years earlier, and made more of the mid to late 80s, mainly for music / culture reasons. Saying that I think being a young adult around the turn of the century meant that all the new tech was exciting. Remember getting my first mobile in 1999 (incidentally because I ended up in a bit of a pickle after a night out!), and then getting into Napster a year later and basically saved a fortune through Uni not having to buy CDs.

[tforturton]

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I was born in 59, so grew up in the sixties and seventies. I like to think that I benefitted from all the freedoms and the music that came with that era. Sure, the seventies had strikes and power cuts, but they didn't really affect me that much. And as I've grown older, I have had the benefit of all the improvements and advancements made over the last twenty or thirty years, like computers, mobile phones, etc. My youth was less affected by pollution and crime, and cyber-bullying didn't exist. There was less traffic and more manual work, but the food was simple, and (mainly) UK grown. I have become used to regularly eating food that was considered 'exotic' when I was young - and I don't mean Indian or Chinese, I mean things like peaches and strawberries all year round. Whether this situation will continue remains to be seen.
So I'd say the sixties were the best. But then I am a bit biased.

[xsnaggle]

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but the OP asked which decade 'is' not which decade 'was'.
the naswer to that must surely be the one you are born in!!!

[jon1959]

Re: What decade is it best to grow up in?

but the OP asked which decade 'is' not which decade 'was'.
the naswer to that must surely be the one you are born in!!!

Or maybe the answer is 'the first and second' - although some of us are still working on it in 'the fifth, sixth and seventh'!

[The Bloop]

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Or maybe the answer is 'the first and second' - although some of us are still working on it in 'the fifth, sixth and seventh'!

Just grow up will you 😜

[xsnaggle]

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Or maybe the answer is 'the first and second' - although some of us are still working on it in 'the fifth, sixth and seventh'!

and eighth

[xsnaggle]

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and eighth

oops no idea where the kabab came from..... bit I'll eat it!!!

[splott parker]

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and eighth

I’m with you, happy to wake up every morning above ground and breathing

[PontBlue]

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why? social media and smart phones are great

They are both conduits for unnecessary pressure being put on children to look and act a certain way and to bully anyone who is different.

As an adult I think smartphones are great. Social Media isn't and wouldn't mind if it was legislated out of existence; I much prefer a forum like this one for people with a common interest to converse.