re: I was born in the 90’s, were the 80’s and 90’s truly the best time to be alive?

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yep, the Manson family was just a wild and wacky version of the Brady Bunch

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The amount of crazy cults, serial killers, etc. in the 70s and 80s was absolutely INSANE.

So.. and had zero clue what life was about till maybe 88… you were way
Too young to even have an opinion on the way the 80’s were. Just like me with the 60’s I was 10 at the end of that
Decade and don’t remember most of it..

Without question.

Youre off a decade - 70s and 80s.

This picture objectively answers the question.

49/50 states said they liked how things were going.

Don’t think there has ever been another time in history where this was the case.

100%. It’s not even close. Our summers were basically lord of the flies. Wake up. Hop on the bike and gone until dark. No cell phone. Nothing.

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49/50 states said they liked how things were going.

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Don’t think there has ever been another time in history where this was the case.

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No, that was the70’s

Trash bag full of Penthouse's in the woods with terminates in them was a rite of passage.

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As a kid who was 9 years old in 1980, I wouldn't change anything if given the opportunity.

Summers were glorious and seemed to last forever. We'd play neighborhood baseball or football that spanned 6 different home lawns and nobody complained. We rode bikes to the neighborhood pond and caught bream on white bread balls and scaled them on the sidewalk so mom could fry them.
Most entrenched memory was playing spotlight chase at night throughout the whole block. Moms would take turns bringing out Kool-aid and spraying us down with OFF. The combination of those two smells mingled together is my youth.

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I'm one year older than you and I agree with everything you said.

The 70s weren't so great if you were an adult—stagflation, oil embargoes, etc.

But if you were a kid who didn't have to worry about such things they were glorious.

IMO the best era for popular music in America was from roughly the mid-60s to the early 80s. We caught most of that. I still remember the first record I ever bought with my own money—KISS Destroyer, followed quickly by KISS Alive! I was seven years old and thought I was a badass listening to that stuff.

David Bowie, T Rex and glam rock, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Sex Pistols and punk, Stevie Wonder, Elton John's peak period, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Dire Straights, CCR, Van Halen's early albums, Talking Heads, Boston, ELO...great music all over the place back then.

That stuff was the soundtrack of my youth.

We were so much more independent than kids are today. We left home in the morning and didn't come home until dark or we got hungry, whichever came first.

I'll tell my kids stories about things that happened back in the 70s/80s and they'll ask, "What did your parents say about that?" And I will say, "I never told them anything about it." We didn't feel the need to tell our parents every little thing back then. If it happened on the street it usually stayed on the street.

No cell phones, no internet, hell, until the 80s we didn't know anybody who even had an answering machine.

Life was better in many ways when it was simpler IMO.