I would have loved living in the 50s also...but I would have like to experienced the wagon times...I call it LAURA INGLES TIMES...LOL

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I don't think I would have liked living 100 years ago. *That would have been during the Victorian times, and that era does not interest me. *Although I'm fascinated with the Great Depression, I wouldn't have wanted to live during the 1930's and experience that first hand. *That was a very horrible and scary time in our nation's history.

I would have liked living during the 40's, 50's, and 60's. *Those were times of great change and prosperity in our country. *It would have been interesting being a part of it.

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I think I could go back 100 years..maybe more. I wouldn't mind the "Little House on the Prairie" age. I could do with what I would give up in modern times in exchange for that simpleness...I really could.

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Not in a million years!!! My grandma lived in the early 1900's in rural Tennessee - lots of open spaces, but a life I would not want to have.

Plus, 100 years ago, women had NO rights! We couldn't even vote! Why would I want to live in that time?

I sometimes wish I could live in the 1970s or 1980s before all the technology made our lives more complicated. Funny coming from somebody surfing the net, but sometimes I wish we had a less complicated life like our parents as far as "stuff" that is - i.e. cell phone, cable, computer/internet, etc.

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I read the Little House on the Priairie books waaaay too many times and I have always wanted to live back in those times. I have read each book at least 20 times. I still bake my own baked good and I just made homemade jelly yesterday. I wish things were as simple as they were back then

I watched "Pioneer House" when it was on PBS about 4-1/2 years ago. While I wouldn't mind visiting the pioneer days, I don't think I'd want to leave behind all of my modern conveniences for good. Plus, if I lived back then, I doubt my twins would even be here. Lily would've died for sure, and Leah too, probably.

PBS has done several "period-type" shows with the people of today living like in the romanticized "olden days." It's always very eye-opening to me to watch these. I remember the one they did at least 3 years ago now about the Victorian era. Your social class basically determined everything, and I'm quite sure my whole family would be living in servitude if we were living back then. Doesn't sound like much fun to me.....

So I think I'll just be happy in the here and now, though a little visit wouldn't be so bad!

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I've read the Little House series lots too, but cloth toilet paper that someone (meaning me) has to wash? Hmmm...not so appealing. Ladies you are romanticizing this way too much! I would absolutely miss running water, flushing toilets, my dishwasher, central air, and heat. Waking up in the morning covered in a blanket of snow (Like in Little Town on the Prairie) doesn't sound like much fun to me, and I don't think my dh would want to shovel us out in the morning either!

Oooh, I made fresh strawberry jam on Friday too! Tastes so good! Now I need to work on my cherries....

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I keep my house warm in the summer and cool in the winter but I could not live without a/c and heat! Living on the Kansas prairie, I've often said that I would have made a horrible pioneer.

The 50's comes to mind as a great era to live in but realistically there was so much oppression, racisim and sexism in this country that it really was not a fun place for most Americans. It has been romantized as a great time in our history but most of the citizens in America were not allowed the freedoms we have today - women, blacks, hispanics, religious minorities, even political oppression with McCarthyism. I watched an interesting show on polio last night - which my mom got in the 1950's - so medical advances alone are a reason to not live back then.

Guess I'll stay here in the 2000's and just try to make it the best time the world has ever seen!

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YES!!! i love those shows on pbs like pioneer house, colonial house, texas ranch house...i'd love to do something like that. i cannot wait until my girls are old enough to understand colonial williamsburg. i'm a huge history buff--love the old times...the only thing i'd have to protest would be the corsets.

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I always wanted to live in the 1920's and 30's. I know that it was a hard life at times but life was so much simplier then. I have always romanticized that era.