What year would you have most like to have been born in?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

1976.

It would've been much cooler to have come of age around the beginning of the 90s instead of around the turn of the century.

[Aizen]

Probably sometime like 1300. I could learn to swordfight, slay dragons, sound cool by speaking in Old English, catch the black plague etc.

[MasterJedi]

1987, just like I was.

[Franzl]

Maybe around 1950 for me.

[Mint]

I'm pretty satisfied with 1988, given how wonderful growing up in the '90s was. Although I feel older than that.

[Franzl]

I'm pretty satisfied with 1988, given how wonderful growing up in the '90s was. Although I feel older than that.

The 90s were indeed excellent....although I feel I could have gotten more out of them had I been considerably older.

[Smid]

About 1860. I'd have relished living in the Regency era. That should have read 1760.

I also love jazz, I could have very easily lived through the 20s, 30s and 40s.

[Brittain33]

1976.

It would've been much cooler to have come of age around the beginning of the 90s instead of around the turn of the century.

In many ways, it was a great year to be born. Graduating college into a boom was a big plus, and the 1990s were better than the 2000s, which feel like what I was told the 1970s were like. In my own case, if I'd been ten years older there's a decent chance I'd be dead, whereas if I were ten years younger I wouldn't have internalized the message of the AIDS crisis to the extent that it has protected me.

There were a few major drawbacks:

1. Not having the Internet until college.
2. It makes you 18 in 1994. Think of how that feels as a Democrat--paying for the sins of earlier generations and not being able to catch a break in election after election. It's one reason I empathize with our young conservatives here, who can't help coming of age at the end of a conservative cycle. (Yes, I know, anything can happen in 4 years! I doubt it, though.)
3. If you didn't buy a house early on, you got locked out of the boom.

For myself, I would have chosen 1981. You still graduate into a good economy, but you have better computer games and the Internet at an earlier stage. That would have made high school so much better.

[Brittain33]

About 1860. I'd have relished living in the Regency era.

You have died of dysentery.

[RosettaStoned]

1969.

[Lief 🗽]

In the 1870s somewhere. Human civilization reached its height between about 1890 and 1914 and has been in steady decline ever since.

[12th Doctor]

1740.  That way I would have been just old enough to play some part in the Revolutionary Era.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

1950 or so.

[Aizen]

1740.  That way I would have been just old enough to play some part in the Revolutionary Era.

and own slaves.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

1950 or so.

So you would find getting sent to Vietnam fun?

[Franzl]

1950 or so.

So you would find getting sent to Vietnam fun?

That's something I didn't consider when I said 1950

ok ok....let's say 1970 then.

[Boris]

1997

[Stranger in a strange land]

Around 1978 or so, so I could fully appreciate the 90s.

[Sensei]

1973

I want to be a web tycoon.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

1950 or so.

So you would find getting sent to Vietnam fun?

Ah, true.  1940, then.

[Sensei]

1950 or so.

So you would find getting sent to Vietnam fun?

Ah, true.  1940, then.

Congrats, you just voted for Ronald Reagan.

[muon2]

1950 or so.

So you would find getting sent to Vietnam fun?

That's something I didn't consider when I said 1950

ok ok....let's say 1970 then.

Or you could wait until the late 50's. There was no draft for those born in 1957-9.

[Meeker]

I'm perfectly happy being born when I was.

[Eraserhead]

Around 1953 if I wasn't going to be drafted.

[Platypus]

Either 1905 or 1972