If you could go back to any year in history for one year

This topic was created in the Travel forum by LoverOfTheSea on Thursday, November 30, 2023 and has 13 replies.

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When, Where and Why would you go?

I'll pick somewhere between 1870-1890 United States Of America

The Gilded Age: A period of Economic Growth

Meeting some of the greatest inventors like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Nikola Tesla 🙂

I would of posted a picture but I don't know how to do this here.

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I'd kinda like to watch the pyramids being built. Or enjoying Rome in its glory days.

But I don't think I'd last a year before being sold into slavery or killed.

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The 70s - late 60s

1. Economically you can apply for a job and they will train you with little or no previous school or experience.

Cost of living was much more inline with wages, especially low level jobs. Buying a house and getting by wasn't such a mountain to climb to get there.

2. Hippie culture. They let it go to their head and didn't push for changes with actions, however the community and openness of the culture I like is my vibe.

3. I like the small town experience with local shops and business you go to. Self sustaining bubbles.

I love people and interacting with others.

Now a days or just the community I'm around, I feel a undercurrent of fear, distrust, and low vibe.

Ironically, I suppose I need to work on myself to be sure this mentality it's not a reflection of myself and life on some level as well. Birds of a feather.

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Assuming I would get to reap the rewards I would go back to like 1950, then predict everything that was going to happen in the next 50+ while being accurate similar to the Simpsons.

Actually no thats stupid. I'd go back to 1998. At that point I'd spend 6 months manipulating the lottery, then invest all of it into stocks for Google, Starbucks, eBay, and many more of our modern corporations that flourish.

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Posted by hydorah

Posted by LaGenereuze
Definitely the 70's

interesting, although I don't like the 70s, I think it's the decade with the most potential to see/do intreesting things, and I'd be least likely to be killed.

My favorite era is the bronze age, but I wouldn't survive a day

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I’d also kind of like to check out the dinosaurs. But I wouldn’t survive an hour!

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Posted by LaGenereuze

Posted by hydorah

Posted by LaGenereuze
Definitely the 70's

interesting, although I don't like the 70s, I think it's the decade with the most potential to see/do intreesting things, and I'd be least likely to be killed.

My favorite era is the bronze age, but I wouldn't survive a day

The Bronze Age seems like a really tough time to live in,

I also think people who were born in the 70's are the coolest ever

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I agree with that, they exude coolness somehow

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I had envisioned of going back as far as the late 1500s to somewhere around the early part of the 1600s during sir Issac Newton's time. Why that far back? Because I would like to witness first hand what life back then was like. Sometimes I ask myself how people today know sir Issac Newton sailed the seven seas and how anybody even know if that's how he looked if nobody that's alive today weren't around during his time. I find that to be a mystery.