re: What is the greatest decade in history to have been a teenager in?

75-85
Life was NO DOUBT slower and much easier. A kid could be a kid. Just listen to the damn music produced then and now. Then it was ABBA and dancing queen or Don Williams I believe in you, or John Denver.
Now it all the same. Rap and rap wanna be. Even the country music is a rap song. It’s like being on speed all the time. Hurry hurry hurry loud loud loud

80s

People are going to say whatever decade they came to age.

The correct answer is the 80’s.

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I am somewhat biased but I'm going to go ahead and say the 90's. We had the music and the old "when the street lights turn off it's time to go home" way of life. People still knew their neighbors and looked out for each other. Simpler place and time.

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I think I agree. While I was a teen in the eighties, I dont think the 90s were that much different overall. Except that chicks started shaving. 80s teens needed a bush hog to get some poon.

I grew up on Staten Island, New York. I remember as an 8 or 9 year old child (1959/1960) I was on a shopping trip with a girl (who eventually became a nun) who used to baby sit us. As we were walking down the street a man handed her a pamphlet. I just caught a glimpse of it and could see that it was a caricature of a black person. She crumpled it up; threw it in a trash can; and said, “Don’t pay any attention to this garbage.” It was a pamphlet that was promoting segregation. I can assure you that there was every bit as much racial prejudice in NYC as there was in the south.

It was the Republican Party of the late 50s and early 60s who were supporting civil rights, not the segregationist Democrats.

I did not have any interaction with a black person until I was a freshman in an all-boys Catholic HS as a 14 year old in September 1965. I was not then, nor am I now, a proponent of segregation.

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I wasn't born in the 60's, but I've researched that decade extensively and the chaos was worse than now. Vietnam/Protests/Civil Rights/Women's Rights/Presidential Assassination/Civil Rights Leader Assassination.

Riots everywhere, the South was a freaking mess with bombings/dogs/fire hoses/buses/marches. It's like the entire country was in upheaval and the hatred between American's at a fever pitch.

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Don't forget the domestic terrorism. Black Panthers, Weather Underground, SLA, etc.

I’m biased, but the early 90s as a teen we’re great times.

90’s easily. 80’s...also fricking easily. But I’d go with 90’s because of the video games. We played outside all day and only then at night we would turn on the Super Nintendo, 64, gameboy. We enjoyed 80’s music as much as we did the 90’s and vice versa. Action Movies. Technology was advancing but we were not married to it. Blockbuster. Oh and girls were improving.

I turned 13 in 2010.


2010 through 2016 was a fun time for me.