Yup that's when I would pick too. I always thought it was an exciting time of major changes with travel and lifestyles. The land wasn't all subdivisions and developments it was open natural. I just wish that there was more natural areas left.

yes--to living opposite Laura Ingalls but TODAY I would love to live in an Amish community and have wanted to do so for the last 17 years.:love:

Actually, I would love to have been a parent when I was a child. The late 70's-80's. It was an easier time and the kids could still play outside and come home by dark. No cell phones, computers or cable. It was just a great time to be a kid. I would love to raise my kids in that time.

Wow! This is such a hard question for me...

I agree with choosing the 50s (if I could have been a teenager), and the 80s...because life WAS alot less "technology based". I also (for a time) would've liked to live "across the field from the Ingalls", or in that era, or (currently) in an Amish community. I'm also drawn to "Midevil times", however I don't think I'd want to stay there for long!! (ha ha)

The great thing is, that we CAN still choose to live the "lifestyle" of our choice today, however, not in exactly the same way!! Medical advances, technology and medications would still be available, even to the Amish if needed, for example. We can choose to opt out of paying for cable, and spend family time playing cards and board games, like it was when I grew up. We can choose to live "off grid" too, for example (which is my dream) and in places where you don't have close neighbors checking out everything you do. There are alot of things we can do, and ways we can live, that CAN take you back to a simpler or more secure way of life....if you choose to do so.

I plan to do a paper on the lives of the Amish in school this Fall, and how they are able to live thier lives without all the conveniences alot of us take for granted every day. I envy them. Occasionally, we'll see Mennonites in our Walmart. They live across the border into Mexico. So many times I've just wanted to walk up to them and ask them questions about their lives. Apparently, they're not above going to Walmart for things!!

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I think about it everyday that I was born in the wrong time period. I wish I could go back to the 40's or 50's and live in Mayberry, USA. I have like 16 episodes of The Andy Griffith Show on DVD and watch them when I get tired of the violence and the lack of good values. I would mostly like to go back in time because these days there is a big lack of GOD in our lives. I wasn't raised in church and I wish I would have been. I have always believed in GOD and so has my family but they just never sat us down and talked about it. Also, back then I think families stayed together more. My mom and dad got married and divorced 3 times before finally calling it quits. So now as a married mother of a beautiful little girl of 5 months I just think every day how I want her to be raised and it envolves a lot of church and Andy Griffith.

Frugalwannabe--- yes-- the Andy Griffith Show. I live in New Zealand and we used to watch the AG show when I was growing up. Recently I purchased 8 episodes of the show and it was great to watch them.

That is funny but if I could choose I think this is when I would pick!

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Really I would have to live in the momement. I don't think with my childhood ilnesses I would have survived an earlier time. I would have died at a young age and if by some chance I made it to adulthood I would have died in childbirth.

Also, I would not want to give up the social networking the internet gives us.

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