I would like to live in the 19th century just so that i could wear all the really cool clothes without looking like a weirdo. Of course if you trace my family history back i would have been a miner or something so probably wouldn't have been all that good. Lets just say i want to live in Charles Dickens world.
When would you like to live?
2007-07-26 11:32:43 · 32 answers · asked by Stephen M 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The 70's
2007-07-26 11:35:04 · answer #1 · answered by Irish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the past - Medieval times or the 19th century. Like you I want to wear the clothes of the time, but I'd also love to be able to ride horses all day. I would have to be rich though, so the comforts of the day could be afforded as I wouldn't like to be living in the peasant huts or slums!
In the future - after Armageddon so that all the problems in the world are eliminated and only good people are left.
2007-07-26 21:54:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
~Knowing all the deficiencies of the past and having no clue as to what the future may hold, why would I want to? Obviously "I" couldn't live in the past because if I did, I couldn't be "me" as a simple matter of logic and fact.
Now, if I magically send myself into the past, do I get to choose who I am going to be, as well? If not, I haven't gone into the past, I've committed suicide and a new entity has been created (thus making the whole affair an exercise in futility but I'll never know that because "I" won't be there anymore). If I do get to retain my own identity too, I'm really screwed. Not only will I have nowhere to live, no friends, no family, no useable skills and grossly insufficient knowledge with which to cope with even the simplest taskes of going about my life, but I'm going to be locked up in the looneybin or burned at the stake as a witch. If I've got to remain me without taking on a new contemporary identity with a contemporary education and memory to go with, in what kind of situation am I going to find myself, and, if I am a peasant in London in Dickens time, how am I going to survive?
2007-07-26 12:44:57 · answer #3 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would want to be 18-20 years old in 1939. That way, I could enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force and be an tail gunner in a bomber, preferably a Wellington and later an Lancaster. It sounds crazy, but I think it would be the adventure of a life time.
2007-07-26 15:10:26 · answer #4 · answered by James S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
During the Bronze Age - when art was being cultivated, soap had been invented, technology was forging ahead (sorry for the pun!) and religion was the type of worship you did to the gods that made sure you lived rather than something you just relegate to an hour one day a week.
2007-07-26 11:46:35 · answer #5 · answered by Hedge Witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably some time in the future when there are no wars and the world is at peace with no hunger or health problems. An age of live and let live
2007-07-27 23:20:16 · answer #6 · answered by biff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A few hundred years back to some Ancestors' tribes in [what is now] the U.S. before other people came and screwed it all up. They were the only people to ever know actual REAL freedom in this land. I would love to see this place without a bit of pavement.
2007-07-26 11:54:16 · answer #7 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to live right now. The quality of life today is better than at any point in previous history, and I also am interested in space.
2007-07-26 11:46:11 · answer #8 · answered by marconprograms 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the 60s
2007-07-26 11:35:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to live in the sixties because it was such a great time of change and reform and the artistic movements and the musical innovation were just mind blowing to me, especially being born in the late eighties.
2007-07-26 11:36:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋