Pick where you'd choose to go with historical time travel

[Wikipedia delenda est]

You can spend as much or as little time as you want there before returning to the present day. Assume there is no language barrier. Mine:

1. Paris
2. Florence
3. London
4. Madrid
5. Berlin
6. Tokyo

[brucejoel99]

NOTA, because I'd wanna go to Alexandria in ~50 BC to read everything I possibly could at the Library.

[NewYorkExpress]

None of the above.

If I have time travel, I'm going to use it to kill Hitler before he becomes Chancellor of Germany.

[ReallySuper]

1. Madrid
2. Florence
3. London
4. Tokyo
5. Paris
6. Berlin

[The Mikado]

NOTA, because I'd wanna go to Alexandria in ~50 BC to read everything I possibly could at the Library.

BruceJoel99: "Only 7 of Sophocles' over 120 plays survived to present! I can't wait to finally see the rest of these and learn what we've been missing for 2 millennia!"

BruceJoel99, several days later: "Burn it. Nothing of value will be lost."

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Realistically speaking we would be dead on arrival in basically all the first four and even 1890 Berlin would not be so safe.

Of course "realistically speaking" does not make any sense whatsoever when we are talking about time travel. I pick 1490 Florence to see peak Renaissance.

[dead0man]

Tokyo 1990, not close.  Modern(ish) medicine but more important, all those cool cars.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

None of the above.

If I have time travel, I'm going to use it to kill Hitler before he becomes Chancellor of Germany.

Berlin 1890 is close enough. Take a train to Braunau am Inn and throw Baby Hitler out the window.
Not that it would have done much to prevent the rise of Nazi Germany, though.

[President Johnson]

Berlin would be interesting.

Overall: To Washington DC in 1964. I'd like to see the 1960s live. But at first, I'd actually try to reach the then-President and beg him not to go into Vietnam.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Berlin would be interesting.

Overall: To Washington DC in 1964. I'd like to see the 1960s live. But at first, I'd actually try to reach the then-President and beg him not to go into Vietnam.

So that he can be perfect instead of near-perfect?

[Wikipedia delenda est]

The poll results are further proof of how much the Early Modern era is underrated compared to the 19th and 20th centuries. 1490 Florence is objectively the best choice for the reason Battista said, though 1690 Paris is my personal favorite. Berlin and Tokyo voters, explain yourselves.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Anything except Tokyo is unacceptable,  since there wasnt any sterilization and anesthesia before 1920s

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Anything except Tokyo is unacceptable,  since there wasnt any sterilization and anesthesia before 1920s

This is exactly my reasoning. I briefly considered Florence, but why die as soon as I get there?

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Anything except Tokyo is unacceptable,  since there wasnt any sterilization and anesthesia before 1920s

This is exactly my reasoning. I briefly considered Florence, but why die as soon as I get there?

Because as I stated there is no reason to speak realistically about that when the topic is something as unrealistic as time travel?

[mgop]

bahamas 1490s, france 1790s

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Tokyo 1990 is safest. Florence 1490 or Paris 1690 is unrealistically the best bet.

[jaymichaud]

1990 Tokyo.