Era and city you’d live in?

[HawkOptimist]

You’re given several million dollars and can put your current life on hold for one year, guaranteed to return to it as it is today. Meaning, everything and everyone is frozen in time for that year. What era and city (or country) would you choose to live in?

Personally, I’d go with Los Angeles in the late 70s to 80s and experience the Playboy lifestyle, if you know what I mean.

 

[DooBi]

I'd go back to the 90s and go to a shitload of concerts. City doesn't really matter

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

I’d love to go back and see this country as it was before European settlers ruined it. Live with the Native Americans and learn as much about their culture as possible. Find out about their knowledge of the plants and how to use them.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

I am not sure all things considered I would want to live in any day other than today. Plenty of psst events I would love to see firsthand. But for a full year? I would have to give up my smartphone, streaming, and potentially Climate control?

As to place I would have a hard time deciding between a cabin in the woods or some home on a beach. Smoky mountains in Tennessee or maybe some house on the beach in California.

And only of my family could come with me. If I didn't have my family I would fall into a depression in about a week.

 

[ping72]

I’d go back to when OP’s mom was 19 and much less used.

 

[fsu1jreed]

I'd go back to the 90s and go to a shitload of concerts. City doesn't really matter

You and I completely agree

 

[StormHawk42]

I'd go back to the 90s and go to a shitload of concerts. City doesn't really matter

 

[JupiterHawk]

Lately I have wondered what LA would have been like in the late 60’s after watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

 

[BioHawk]

You and I completely agree

Unless I got to also be in my 20's again I would never survive this.

 

[DooBi]

Unless I got to also be in my 20's again I would never survive this.

Facts

 

[DogBoyRy]

You’re given several million dollars and can put your current life on hold for one year, guaranteed to return to it as it is today. Meaning, everything and everyone is frozen in time for that year. What era and city (or country) would you choose to live in?

Personally, I’d go with Los Angeles in the late 70s to 80s and experience the Playboy lifestyle, if you know what I mean.

Houston and Dallas during the oil boom of the 70's/80's were crazy. Lots of $$ flowing, divorces, etc.

 

[seminoleed]

Late 60s/early 70s San Francisco--the hippies, the Diggers, the Summer of Love, lots of sex and drugs.

Hedonism only a Viking could replicate.

 

[DooBi]

Late 60s/early 70s San Francisco--the hippies, the Diggers, the Summer of Love, lots of sex and drugs.

Hedonism only a Viking could replicate.

Lotta hairy bush and armpits

 

[IowaPackFan]

I’d go to the 2040’s so I could search who won what games, lottery numbers, etc. then bring the knowledge back to today.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

I’d love to go back and see this country as it was before European settlers ruined it.

Good grief...

 

[Scruddy]

I’d love to go back and see this country as it was before European settlers ruined it. Live with the Native Americans and learn as much about their culture as possible. Find out about their knowledge of the plants and how to use them.

Chances are high that culture may lead to you being slaughtered or enslaved by a rival tribe of native Americans lol

 

[Scruddy]

Good grief...

White guilt plus a gross ignorance of history.. it's like these people are unaware that Indian tribes murdered and enslaved each other long before the Europeans arrived to "ruin everything".

 

[Chuck C]

Too many places and eras I’d love to see. Since I’ve been reading about the Punic Wars recently, I’m going with Carthage in the 220’s BC.

 

[Colonoscopy]

1950s Ottumwa

 

[hydro2.0]

Germany in the 1940s their views were so progressive at the time I’d like to experience

 

[Scruddy]

Germany in the 1940s their views were so progressive at the time I’d like to experience

I thought the "progressive time" in Germany was the 20s and early 30s prior to hitlers assent to power in the mid 30s?

 

[hydro2.0]

I thought the "progressive time" in Germany was the 20s and early 30s prior to hitlers assent to power in the mid 30s?

It’s a fuking joke.

 

[Scruddy]

It’s a fuking joke.

Fair lol though there may be a case to be made that the actual "progressive" time (that mimics the current progressive movement in the west) was one of the large reasons that Hitler and the nazi party came to power in the first place.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

I’d go back and make sure Don Denkinger never made it to KC to steal the ‘85 World Series from the Cardinals…

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Good grief...

Chances are high that culture may lead to you being slaughtered or enslaved by a rival tribe of native Americans lol

White guilt plus a gross ignorance of history.. it's like these people are unaware that Indian tribes murdered and enslaved each other long before the Europeans arrived to "ruin everything".

Hate to interrupt your white nationalist circle jerk here, but the practice of enslavement was rare and almost exclusively done on war captives. The practice exploded in every facet only after European colonialism. I guess Scruddy is ignorant of any actual history that he didn’t find from his Neo Nazi friends online. But continue your Kim Reynolds-approved whitewash of history for us.

 

[Scruddy]

Hate to interrupt your white nationalist circle jerk here, but the practice of enslavement was rare and almost exclusively done on war captives. The practice exploded in every facet only after European colonialism. I guess Scruddy is ignorant of any actual history that he didn’t find from his Neo Nazi friends online. But continue your Kim Reynolds-approved whitewash of history for us.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/seminars-symposia/the-other-slavery-perspective.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwipgNuS_uiAAxUSMDQIHS7pAjAQFnoECAwQBg&usg=AOvVaw0x1pvGeP-2R8_s5uiPd8DG

Except you're completely wrong (per usual). Nice attempted flex though, doofus

 

[Thunderlips71]

Great thread idea OP. My paternal grandfather died of lung cancer before I was born, so I’d go back to the mid-50’s in Cedar Rapids to go fishing with him and my dad. Otherwise Los Angeles in the Playboy era would work.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

…As for my answer: 1977 in London and the “Summer of Punk”. See the Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Damned, The Jam, Blondie, The Clash, Talking Heads, etc.

Second choice: Chicago 1990. Final season of Old Comiskey, when they were first place late but were second best in the AL to a ‘roided up A’s team. Be in the epicenter of alternative and industrial music with Wax Trax Records and The Metro: Ministry, NIN, early Smashing Pumpkins. See grunge in the earliest stages with Nirvana etc. all coming to town.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/seminars-symposia/the-other-slavery-perspective.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwipgNuS_uiAAxUSMDQIHS7pAjAQFnoECAwQBg&usg=AOvVaw0x1pvGeP-2R8_s5uiPd8DG

Except you're completely wrong (per usual). Nice attempted flex though, doofus

Did you even bother reading your own link, Nazi? It corroborated exactly what he and I said. The egregious examples of enslavement that typified the European conquest occurred in South and Central America, rarely in the United States region. They then note this:

“These practices of bondage were embedded in specific cultural contexts. Europeans tapped into them and went on to commodify and expand them in ways that would have been unimaginable in earlier times.”

 

[Scruddy]

Did you even bother reading your own link, Nazi? It corroborated exactly what he and I said. The egregious examples of enslavement that typified the European conquest occurred in South and Central America, rarely in the United States region. They then note this:

“These practices of bondage were embedded in specific cultural contexts. Europeans tapped into them and went on to commodify and expand them in ways that would have been unimaginable in earlier times.”

"Indigenous slavery long predated the arrival of Europeans in the Americas. As far back as we can peer into pre-Contact monuments, codices, and archaeological evidence as well as the earliest European accounts, we learn about Indigenous Americans enslaving one another."

Clearly you didn't, dip shit.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

"Indigenous slavery long predated the arrival of Europeans in the Americas. As far back as we can peer into pre-Contact monuments, codices, and archaeological evidence as well as the earliest European accounts, we learn about Indigenous Americans enslaving one another."

Clearly you didn't, dip shit.

Do you know the difference between the United States and “the Americas”, you illiterate fascist? 😂

 

[Scruddy]

Do you know the difference between the United States and “the Americas”, you illiterate fascist? 😂

Peak cope has been reached. ****ing idiot.

 

[83Hawk]

A small town in Iowa in the '30s and '40s.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

London/Europe in the late 60s

 

[goldmom]

Houston and Dallas during the oil boom of the 70's/80's were crazy. Lots of $$ flowing, divorces, etc.

We moved to D in 1985. Definitely at the end of that oil boom but it is still a town where people can grab success.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

1865 D.C.

 

[Jan Itor]

I’d go to 1883 and get in the wagon train to Oregon. And I’d **** Elsa the whole way.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Peak cope has been reached. ****ing idiot.

No wonder you apologize for European slavery practices. You clearly enjoy getting owned.

 

[drew_hawk]

A small town in Iowa in the '30s and '40s.

Why on earth would you want to try that?

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Honestly your best post ever.

I’d go to 1883 and get in the wagon train to Oregon. And I’d **** Elsa the whole way.