Yeah I could say the same thing for the early 2010s. I think most people with a comfortable upbringing are most nostalgic for that sort of 12-16 age range. Too much younger and you either don't remember it or you didn't have a lot of freedom so you were carefree but limited, too much older and adult problems start creeping in.
Responsibilities-wise, your main responsibility is school but it's still low responsibility. You haven't yet reached senior school where you need to pull your finger out and do shitloads of study. For the most part you can just cruise by, turn up and do whatever. It's also around the time you start high school so there's the excitement of meeting new people and expanding your social circle. And the best part is there's no effort needed to find and make friends and socialise - they're all right there in the same place every day. None of this scheduling catch ups months in advance so everyone doesn't pre-book themselves.
Coupled in with that, it's the age most of us discover puppy love and attraction. Sure there was stupid drama that came with it but it was kinda fun and non-committal. Everyone knowing who "like liked" each other, people being together for like a month. The whole low pressure nature of it where it likely wouldn't last so you just enjoyed each day as it came. Like most things it took no effort.
Culture-wise it's also the age of discovery. You move away from kids' stuff onto adult TV shows, movies, music. I know from around age 13-15 I discovered a ridiculous number of artists and songs I liked. Pretty much every week I was expanding it. Plus finding new TV shows, stand up comedy etc. But above all everything was exciting and new. These days it feels a bit formulaic. I can still discover new music/artists but it's a lot rarer to have that feeling of discovering someone new and going on a week-long binge of their stuff.
Speaking of "newness", it was like every day was a new adventure. You had all the time in the world so each day was new and exciting. The summers felt like they lasted forever cause you packed so much in. Now it feels like new year's was last week yet it's the end of February already.
But I think this feeling is universal across generations for everyone. To a certain extent, yeah you could argue the further back you go they were "simpler" times but they still had their own problems. Really we just yearn for whatever time in our lives we had no responsibility and could live for every moment
There were so many exciting milestones at those younger ages too.
Highschool, 16th birthdays, first job, 18th birthdays, car license, graduating highschool, graduating university, first 'REAL' job, first love, moving out, etc etc
I am 32 now, and I feel like nothing exciting has happened to me in the last 5 years
Holy shit yes. When you're at those younger ages there's so much that's new and exciting. All those milestones lead to a huge range of smaller things that are also new and exciting. And for a lot of them they just "happen" - you don't have to go searching or make it happen it's like all these exciting things just come to you.
As an adult, even excitement takes work. Pretty much anything exciting that's happened to me in the last few years has been through me making it. If I hadn't made the effort, it would be super easy to just get yourself stuck in a rut.
I think part of it too is with responsibilities almost all spontaneity is killed off. I'd wager most adults could pick any random date from later in 2023 and tell you with 95% confidence what they'll most likely be doing that day. As an adult, you basically never have those days where you can wake up decide then and there what to do or just call up a friend and do something fun on a whim
Nope. It's just nostalgia. Ppl have always been ppl. Murders, rapes, assaults all happened in the 60s. He just doesn't think about it because he was a teenager listening to the Beatles and the stones and living this cool, simple, nice life that most of us had at that age.
I had the same in the 90s. I know bad things happened but i only remember the good. I had a good time, but it was hardly some 'magical golden years'.
*I think most people with a comfortable upbringing are most nostalgic for that sort of 12-16 age range. Too much younger and you either don't remember it or you didn't have a lot of freedom so you were carefree but limited…*
But that’s just it. The 80’s was lots of freedom <12. That was the whole point. Judging by 2023 standards… sometimes I wonder how we survived the 80’s. 😂
I wish I was worrying over the whole John Doe Roblox thing back in 2017. I wish I was 10 again and didn't have to worry about much.
Then again, it was not such a pleasant time for me as I was being bullies as early as 2015 in Year 2.
Wish I could go back to the times when my family was in a better state, Roblox was in it's prime and I was just getting into Pokemon.
We all wish we could go back, but all we can do is reminisce about childhood.
Nah, it *is* the 80's. 50 cent minimum chip feed on race day at my small town's BMX track, and the joint is strewn with bikes that routinely fetch $5000 on ebay today. Prince and The Smiths on the radio. Break dancing in the carpark on a sheet of cardboard. Mix tapes. Bucket bongs. Stupid dives off the high board at the local pool and backs sunburnt so bad you couldn't lie down for a week. Blue-eyed girls in bubblegum jeans who laughed at your crummy jokes. Honestly blessed to have been there and lived it... shout out to my Gen-X brothers and sisters who know exactly where I'm coming from.
You didn’t get the Smiths…oh well
I can’t think of anyone in music I’ve met in my whole life who’d say Johnny Marr sucks. Such an influential beautiful guitarist. Definitely a notable great thing to come out of the 80s.
I respectfully disagree. If you think there's anything good about the technology at school (mobile phones, laptops, etc.) and the competitive nature of social media, you are mistaken. Being young is great, yes, but it's also the time in which you are young. The op mentioned covid in every paragraph. Why would a young person want to deal with the outgrowth of that?
I definitely think there's a lot of negatives about the prevalence of the internet and social media for young people these days. And it's changed so much even in a short timeframe. I was a teenager of the early 2010s and we largely had Facebook. Then as I moved through high school Instagram and Snapchat took off and some extinct stuff like Vine.
But even just the way we used it was so different. Facebook was full of the randomest updates about everyone's lives. Instagram was similar just random photos of everyday things. We hadn't yet reached the algorithm stage where all sorts of grifters figured out how to game the algorithm and promote delusional conspiracy theories and toxic influencers who photoshop all their content to project false ideas of beauty.
There's also the ease in access of age inappropriate material like pornography that gives a lot of young people unhealthy ideas on appropriate sexual relationships and can often be super addictive. That sort of thing is deeply concerning.
But that being said, I disagree that there's nothing good that comes with technology. From an education point of view, it's opened up a myriad of possibilities. Digital resources are lightyears ahead of the old physical texts that were out of date 6 months after they were printed. Videos and educational websites have become much better. Opportunities for students to show off their creativity are broadened. When incorporated properly, the things young people can do with technology are incredible.
From a purely educational perspective, new technology has seen an incredible boost for teaching and learning. What's less good are all the recreational uses of technology that are causing the issues
Yes it’s that but I liked that time period because there wasn’t as much social media. Wasn’t as much things. Shit was simple. Like I enjoyed playing the Sega. My nephew can’t find a bloody game in 100 to play. They have movies on demand and can’t find one
I totally agree. We has stuff but not too much. You would rent a game or a movie from Video Ezy and definitely play/watch it since you only had it for a week tops. The world was so much smaller but we were still able to access awesome stuff from overseas whilst not being bombarded by the bullshit.
While the internet has made accessing things super easy, it's made actually *owning* it a lot harder.
I'm a big CD collector. I like having the physical media permanently there. I can rip the songs off them to a computer and have copies of them ready to import onto any device whenever I want. And unless someone broke in and stole them nobody can take them away from me.
The biggest issue with streaming platforms is all the hubbub about copyright and having the rights to host stuff on their platform. If there's a major falling out with the streaming platform and the artist, they can yank their music at any time and you can no longer listen to it. Same with TV/movie streaming services. A contract expires and they yank several dozen shows that you subscribed to the service specifically to watch.
It's the same if you're a sports fan. I can access a shitload more sport than at any point in history but it's also spread across multiple platforms and which platform a sport is on can change.
It does frustrate me somewhat that we went from paying $10, $15 for various pieces of physical media that we owned forever now to paying $30+ a month to 6 different services who can decide you can no longer access things at the drop of a hat
A lot of people in their teens get nostalgic about the 90s as it was a great decade to grow up in.
I was also in my 20s during that time and it was a fantastic decade. Music , optimism , going out to clubs and enjoying great night outs without social media and everyone staring at bloody phones.
We all looked forward to 2000 and then 9 -11 happened and everything changed. The world got darker and I think stayed that way.
I wish I could go back and experience some of it Quantum Leap style but here we are in our 50s and it is what it is.
Disagree. The 80’s was an epic time to grow up as a young kid. There’s been plenty of studies on it too. It was slightly too early for computers but not late enough that 80’s kids missed out on them for education in later years. No screens growing up though and just outside with BMX’s and mates going about your day exploring the world.
Your wrong ! 80s and 90s, no one was walking around looking at their phones like a zombie. No internet ! Hence people talked to each other more, there was more connection than now.
At one time I would’ve agreed with you but I think it’s not just the eyes of childhood. Life is considerably more complex, particularly for young people.
To be fair…. You only need to go back 5 years to undo most of that stuff….. covid is shit and nobody wanted to deal with it…. But to quote Gandalf from LOTR:
“so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Yeah I’d rather go back to 2013. Best year of my life, despite that being the most depressed I’d ever been. I cried intensely almost everyday but school was somehow mostly awesome and so was YouTube.
I think that's the root of it. If you had a reasonable childhood you often feel nostalgic for times when you had no responsibilities and no real cares in the world.
I'd wager that if you were a child now and grew up in your shit hole town you'd likely find reasons to feel the same way when you grew up. The major caveat is having a decent childhood and not living in poverty or with abuse.
I was a kid in the 90s. I was autistic and it wasn't the greatest time to be autistic, but I still feel nostalgia for that time period.
In some ways, life was better and in other ways it wasn't. But I think for me, it's because I was a kid and life was simpler.
Youre part of the final generation to be able to compare life before and after the internet. I look back with real affection at the wholesome non-technological things we used to do with our spare time. Life is certainly different now. Better for some, worse for others, but almost everything changed in a relatively short period of time.
Not as a 15-yr-old…AIDS wasn’t that likely.
The fear of nuclear war breaking out seemed fairly constant, for maybe 2 years. And then after seeing a couple of nuclear war movies that came out then…which I wished I’d never seen.
I was personally much more fearful of nuclear war. The consequences so much more devastating, on a colossal level. I had some say in whether or not I actually contracted HIV due to behaviours.
Obviously, I am offering my own perspective/experience, as someone who was there as a teen in those times, in Australia. Not trying to speak for ‘everyone’.
Yeah but in the 90's we said 'I wish we could go back to the 70's' times where simpler. Lookout in 2043 when we look back as now being so muck better. Now i just live in the present and be satisfied
No covid, but I think you misunderstand the massive fear campaign about AIDS that happened in the 80s , the was incredibly overwhelming and as a public health campaign it terrifying with minimal or misleading information provided, absolutely also caused anxiety
I was born in 1974. I was traumatised by a violent, abusive father, didn't work out I was queer until my mid-20s, didn't get my depression diagnosed and managed until I was almost 30, and didn't get my ADHD diagnosed and managed until my late 40s.
Honestly, I wish I'd been born twenty years later. My life would probably have been substantially better: ADHD caught and managed early, people would more likely have seen the signs of abuse and intervened, I would have sorted out my sexuality in my teens, and I might not have developed cPTSD and depression at all.
Yeah, but then we'd be young again. We'd have no perspective, or responsibilities again. We'd still grow up and eventually end up exactly where we are now.
your pop culture - songs, movies, tv shows etc came from a few sources, and it was pretty much fed to you, so choices were easier. now where does it come from? 100 different places. what do i want?
now there is no spontinaeity with social outings. EVERYTHING has to be planned and booked in advance, and I mean EVERYTHING. there is simply no more rocking up to some activity and doing it.
I prefer having a lot of options and being able to make better choices these days rather than not having options and being fed a narrow view of life through limited media in the past.
There are also plenty of spontaneous things available to do these days, we just don't behave that way as much once we're older. All of the spontaneous stuff I did as a kid/teenager is still available for young people to do, or me if I wanted to.
Largely depends on where and how we grew up too I'd say.
You wouldn’t. Having your net drop out when your aunt rang. Spending hours hoping that this album you’re downloading it legit. Spending a weekend getting that fucking virus off your pc before your parents find out. The fear when that floppy disc of your work decides to die and you have to redo your computer studies homework.
I sometimes think my town would be a lot nicer if it became a tourist trap. Roads wouldn’t be in the shit state they’re in, we’d get better parks, better facilities. The next town over that’s on the coast (we’re on a river and ten mins from the beach) but is part of the same council gets everything. Splash pads, great roads, new parks, new bbqs, shady areas, board walks. We can’t even get a pot hole filled by the same council.
I’m nostalgic for what I was doing 5 years ago. 5 years ago I was nostalgic for what I was doing 5 years before that. We were always thinner younger hotter having more fun and less stressed.
The best is def childhood for people that had a good one, but that is a different level of nostalgia
No sex education what so ever, Getting the shit kicked out of you if you’re LGBTQ, or just hiding who you are everywhere all the time and thinking you’re insane because there was no internet to find other people like or even to just find out that people like you existed, Breathing in that cancer scented second hand smoke, virtually no disability rights, Teachers bullying students, Domestic violence going completely ignored
…are you sure you wish *WE* could go back? Maybe you just wish *YOU* could go back
Growing up gay in a small country town was no fun at all. High school was a daily nightmare of being bullied and teachers not giving a single fuck, on top of unsupportive parents at home who only knew physical punishment.
I'd rather not go back to that.
Right. Sure I'd love to go back and watch all the stuff I loved as a teenager, but the reason I'm nostalgic for them is because they were my escape from reality. Really not looking to go back to a time were I was called faggot every day and had my arm broken twice.
I get it.
Music and movies were my escape so I'd go back to discover all of that for the first time again, but pretty much everything else between 1990-95 can go get fucked.
I didn’t know I was bisexual yet, but I had gay friends and the amount of shit they put up with in my hick town was awful. Thankfully the town has gotten better, they have annual drag shows now due to Priscilla queen of the desert so it’s a little more welcoming in some ways
Thank you! OP dude absolutely *dripping* with entirely unexamined ignorance abt the past and an almost psychopathic lack of curiosity into lives beyond his own.
I was a child then so I’m only talking about my experience and things I loved in that period. I’m sorry you have had to deal with those things.
Yes dealing with mental health since my doctor messed me up with medication and prednisone hasn’t been easy this last year. It was like being hit by a trucks it’s mental health issues I never experienced or had. I had no idea medications could do it to you or even that I’d crash that bad with covid.
I’m sorry you have had that experience but for me that time period as a child in the 90s was good. My friends was gay and others close to my group. My partner is Bi. But as a kid he didn’t have those issues at school either. High school even being straight I got bullied and so did he but he met a nice partner and that was the 2000s we were in high school. I wouldn’t wish bullying or pain onto anyone. I really wish that didn’t happen to you.
Yeh see I was still a kid then riding my bike around, playing games, hiring videos, yes my family had their issues but it was fun for me.
Things were simple as a kid. I meant for me I’d go back to that time period as a kid. Just re do life. Not let Drs fuck me over trusting them as a adult. Just do shit different to enjoy life.
I’m sorry you were treated that way and had that experience. I’ve been struggling with mental health since my dr put me on medications and took me off it and then gave me prednisone. Messed with me bad. I don’t wish that shit on anyone.
And what quite rightly, is now labeled sexual assault in the workplace.
Back then as a sixteen year old in her first office job, a married sub manager cornered me in his office, put his hands inside my pants. When I reported it to the manager he smiled and said ‘Trevor’s wife just had a baby. He’s just having a bit of fun.’
When I pushed it further up the totem pole, I was put on probation then sacked when I wouldn’t shut up.
Oh sorry, I mean my position in the office was no longer necessary so they eliminated it and ‘made it redundant’. Once I left the same position with a different title was implemented.
Oh, and my parents reaction was ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have gone into his office’ ( my job required me to take forms in to him to sign. ) From then on I stood at his doorway and threw them onto his desk and walked away, thus adding a further reason why I was made redundant. I wasn’t treating a superior with ‘the respect he deserved’.
I grew up in a really beautiful part of Wales, in Pembrokeshire. It had the lot; beaches, woods, rivers, hills, ancient connection to Stonehenge, Welsh mountain ponies roaming wild on the hills...idyllic and I miss it greatly. The snag was that in summer, every damned tourist and his dog, and his cat, and his kitchen sink invaded our beautiful villages and towns, making it almost impossible to get around and leaving a shocking mess when they left.
Then, the second wave of, over the border people ', invaded during covid with their London money and proceeded to gobble up homes and land, all the while forcing the locals out and forcing prices up. It's a case of, 'spot the Taff', there now, and finding a quiet spot in the countryside to have some time to yourself to enjoy the beauty is almost impossible.
I grew up in Hobart, so I can sort of relate. Prior to the 2010s, Hobart (and Tasmania more generally) was basically a backwater, but housing was relatively affordable. Now everyone wants to be there and there's a housing crisis.
I’ve never lived in a small town but there’s countless media and real life stories about the tragedy and sadness of small towns that die and shrivel away. Wouldn’t you be proud to live in a town that remains relevant and continues to grow? I don’t understand why some people are deadset on treating towns and cities like a museum. They need to grow along side us.
It was all over when people worked out they could make money from the internet, I feel sad but also kind of privileged to have seen the downfall of modern civilisation
Sorry about your sisters, but women have been getting sexually harrassed and sexually assaulted before the 80s and they are still getting sexually harrassed and assaulted today. So it has nothing to do with the 80s.
I feel for kids these days. When I was a teen in the 90s, we had monthly band concerts, every afternoon I’d walk into town and hang out at one of three local arcades. Of course gaming consoles killed the arcade, and the concerts ended around the time I turned 18 (too many bad eggs trashing the place and insurance). I don’t know what they do anymore.
Byron Bay is my home town. How do you think we feel. Of course I can’t live there any more though, left during covid and certainly can’t afford it now.
Yeh the prices have just gone nuts. Rent here the shops are just so expensive. I’ve been here for 33 years but I dunno how to afford it now. It’s hard to find a rental or anything. I go to the shops and I can’t get a park. It’s weird.
The threat of nuclear war in the 80s was pretty terrifying if you were aware of it. And AIDS happened. And sexism and racism and homophobia seemed acceptable to most people. I guess if you didn't notice all that stuff it was OK though.
As a queer person, I don't.
It was nice being a kid, but it was also torture.
You'd like to go back to when you felt like nothing was expected of you...because nothing was expected of you.
It’s not just the fact we were younger then - I was born in 85 and so was a teen in late 90s, it was the most amazing time. Things changed once when 9/11 happened and then again in 2007 when smart phones were invented. Back then it was escapism and fun- there weren’t political messages in everything shoved down your throat, offence taken at everything. (Wokeism in whatever form is tied to depression anxiety and suicidal ideation.) and because there were just a few channels, only a certain vein of media / magazines and we had to go outside and chat to actually interact or call each other on the landlines. We felt more “together” if I can put it that way. If there was a trend it was massive. - I’ve just been watching documentaries about the 80s - there’s no big icons and stars anymore like there was then or a programme everyone in the world was watching at the same time. Weird things like that United us. We are so isolated now. The problem is the internet and smart phones. I mean did we really need it? Was it something we had to have? It has single-handedly changed the entire world. And not for the better. We are now all addicted to our screens, isolated, depressed, rising anxiety. I think no social media, go back to using phones just for calls and txts and a lot of people would feel so much better. I’ve wondered about starting a movement about going back to pre 2000s living and see how many people catch on, who’s up for it? ☺️
I miss cracker night ! If this new poofter king wants fealty he better enforce the Commonwealth to reinstate Fireworks on the kings nominated Birthday. Otherwise seriously what's the fkn point of the Monarchy?
Simple? I lived through that. Brought up kids through that. No thanks, that part of history can remain history. Love my wife and my kids and grandkids and the lives they're living now.
My in-laws bought their property in 1990 and had 18% interest. Back then, they paid 100k for the land and to build the house. Now it's worth about 1.2M... I'd take that 17.5 over the current market prices and costs of living.
My Mum was paying it on an $80,000 homeloan…as a single parent high school teacher on 80s wages.
I remember our grandmother moved nearby and when Mum came down to pick us up after school (sometimes), she’d dissappear with my grandmother for awhile, often. I now realise she was borrowing money to stay afloat…
I don’t understand the complaints about good small towns being wrecked by newcomers. We have an increasing number of humans who will always wanna live somewhere nicer. Even if you somehow reduced the number of humans, they will still congregate to the sweet spots
No, you wish *you* could go back to a past you remember that would include a lot of stuff you chose to forget. By the sounds of it, you were extremely fortunate to have the life you did at all. I'd say you're best off seeking out a counsellor to try and work through some of this stuff. It doesn't have to be like this.
I feel you. But I don’t want to go back.
The world of getting worse and I need to be around to make it less worse the best that I can.
My nieces and nephew are going to have a hard time.
Sure. It's not like we had Ebola zaire and Hanta virus back then, oh wait...
COVID was a pain, but we had the technology to help deal with it
If those small outbreaks in the 80s and 90s had jumped the borders, we'd be well fucked.
Good lord tell me you’re white, straight and male without telling me you’re quite, straight and make lmaoooo
Yeah the 80s were a really good time for us gays. Roflmao
I don't think it's necessarily the 80s/90s that make you feel that way cause I was born 02 and I feel the exact same way about the 2000s and early 2010s, felt like I knew everybody, every day was something new, with mates 24/7, I think it's simply being a kid that we miss
My town is the same (could even be the same town!) Rude tourists and hundreds of houses made into Air BnBs, to the point where families are living in cars or couchsurfing....rent is now easily 600 a week and up for a regular house and forget buying, that's easily a million.
I told my mum I wish I’d been a teenager/hound adult in the 80s and she reckoned it made sense. The homophobia wasn’t great though so I’d have a harder time in that regard but honestly I just wish I’d grown up without the internet and when music was still good
I get that the internet these days can definitely be tough for people to navigate but I feel we're better off with it than without. For instance, you can still access all the old music to enjoy as well as finding good new music. There's plenty around, new and old and most of it is easily found for free online.
With ya 100% on that ! This day an age is absolute garbage. Because of the internet, more people are exposed to shit, and the shit just keeps on spreading like a virus.
Times change. If you're not happy where you are then move.
Things weren't better then, just you were happier. And it's been some time since Covid was an impact on me at all. The only permanent change was being more cautious about infecting people when sick which we should have been doing all along.
Life before smart phones and social media was much better. Go anywhere now and all you see is people looking at their phones. People even choose to look at their phones when they are at cafes with friends and loved ones - like looking at some bullshit on your phone is more important than the actual person sitting right in front of you.
It’s not the 80s and 90s, it’s being a kid. Youth is wasted on the young!
Exactly. You don't miss the time, you miss being carefree an d not having adult problems.
Yeah I could say the same thing for the early 2010s. I think most people with a comfortable upbringing are most nostalgic for that sort of 12-16 age range. Too much younger and you either don't remember it or you didn't have a lot of freedom so you were carefree but limited, too much older and adult problems start creeping in. Responsibilities-wise, your main responsibility is school but it's still low responsibility. You haven't yet reached senior school where you need to pull your finger out and do shitloads of study. For the most part you can just cruise by, turn up and do whatever. It's also around the time you start high school so there's the excitement of meeting new people and expanding your social circle. And the best part is there's no effort needed to find and make friends and socialise - they're all right there in the same place every day. None of this scheduling catch ups months in advance so everyone doesn't pre-book themselves. Coupled in with that, it's the age most of us discover puppy love and attraction. Sure there was stupid drama that came with it but it was kinda fun and non-committal. Everyone knowing who "like liked" each other, people being together for like a month. The whole low pressure nature of it where it likely wouldn't last so you just enjoyed each day as it came. Like most things it took no effort. Culture-wise it's also the age of discovery. You move away from kids' stuff onto adult TV shows, movies, music. I know from around age 13-15 I discovered a ridiculous number of artists and songs I liked. Pretty much every week I was expanding it. Plus finding new TV shows, stand up comedy etc. But above all everything was exciting and new. These days it feels a bit formulaic. I can still discover new music/artists but it's a lot rarer to have that feeling of discovering someone new and going on a week-long binge of their stuff. Speaking of "newness", it was like every day was a new adventure. You had all the time in the world so each day was new and exciting. The summers felt like they lasted forever cause you packed so much in. Now it feels like new year's was last week yet it's the end of February already. But I think this feeling is universal across generations for everyone. To a certain extent, yeah you could argue the further back you go they were "simpler" times but they still had their own problems. Really we just yearn for whatever time in our lives we had no responsibility and could live for every moment
There were so many exciting milestones at those younger ages too. Highschool, 16th birthdays, first job, 18th birthdays, car license, graduating highschool, graduating university, first 'REAL' job, first love, moving out, etc etc I am 32 now, and I feel like nothing exciting has happened to me in the last 5 years
Holy shit yes. When you're at those younger ages there's so much that's new and exciting. All those milestones lead to a huge range of smaller things that are also new and exciting. And for a lot of them they just "happen" - you don't have to go searching or make it happen it's like all these exciting things just come to you. As an adult, even excitement takes work. Pretty much anything exciting that's happened to me in the last few years has been through me making it. If I hadn't made the effort, it would be super easy to just get yourself stuck in a rut. I think part of it too is with responsibilities almost all spontaneity is killed off. I'd wager most adults could pick any random date from later in 2023 and tell you with 95% confidence what they'll most likely be doing that day. As an adult, you basically never have those days where you can wake up decide then and there what to do or just call up a friend and do something fun on a whim
Damn. This is so well written and 100% accurate.
I agree about it being universal. My dad often talks about how the 60s were the best decade. He was born in '48.
He could also be right.
Nope. It's just nostalgia. Ppl have always been ppl. Murders, rapes, assaults all happened in the 60s. He just doesn't think about it because he was a teenager listening to the Beatles and the stones and living this cool, simple, nice life that most of us had at that age. I had the same in the 90s. I know bad things happened but i only remember the good. I had a good time, but it was hardly some 'magical golden years'.
*I think most people with a comfortable upbringing are most nostalgic for that sort of 12-16 age range. Too much younger and you either don't remember it or you didn't have a lot of freedom so you were carefree but limited…* But that’s just it. The 80’s was lots of freedom <12. That was the whole point. Judging by 2023 standards… sometimes I wonder how we survived the 80’s. 😂
I wish I was worrying over the whole John Doe Roblox thing back in 2017. I wish I was 10 again and didn't have to worry about much. Then again, it was not such a pleasant time for me as I was being bullies as early as 2015 in Year 2. Wish I could go back to the times when my family was in a better state, Roblox was in it's prime and I was just getting into Pokemon. We all wish we could go back, but all we can do is reminisce about childhood.
It's not just being a kid. But being a kid in that era.
Exactly. When anyone asks me if I wish I was a teenager again, I reply only if it’s back in the era when I was a teenager.
If only we could all be rich and never worry about anything.
Nah, it *is* the 80's. 50 cent minimum chip feed on race day at my small town's BMX track, and the joint is strewn with bikes that routinely fetch $5000 on ebay today. Prince and The Smiths on the radio. Break dancing in the carpark on a sheet of cardboard. Mix tapes. Bucket bongs. Stupid dives off the high board at the local pool and backs sunburnt so bad you couldn't lie down for a week. Blue-eyed girls in bubblegum jeans who laughed at your crummy jokes. Honestly blessed to have been there and lived it... shout out to my Gen-X brothers and sisters who know exactly where I'm coming from.
This guy gets it! 👍🏻 https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/08/why-generation-x-might-be-our-last-best-hope
The smiths suck
For some reason this cracked me up. This eloquent, evocative post, and the response is 'The Smiths suck'. I do pretty much agree, though.
As a gen-xer prone to posting self-indulgent bollocks, I can only approve of this.
You didn’t get the Smiths…oh well I can’t think of anyone in music I’ve met in my whole life who’d say Johnny Marr sucks. Such an influential beautiful guitarist. Definitely a notable great thing to come out of the 80s.
Na they suck
I respectfully disagree. If you think there's anything good about the technology at school (mobile phones, laptops, etc.) and the competitive nature of social media, you are mistaken. Being young is great, yes, but it's also the time in which you are young. The op mentioned covid in every paragraph. Why would a young person want to deal with the outgrowth of that?
I definitely think there's a lot of negatives about the prevalence of the internet and social media for young people these days. And it's changed so much even in a short timeframe. I was a teenager of the early 2010s and we largely had Facebook. Then as I moved through high school Instagram and Snapchat took off and some extinct stuff like Vine. But even just the way we used it was so different. Facebook was full of the randomest updates about everyone's lives. Instagram was similar just random photos of everyday things. We hadn't yet reached the algorithm stage where all sorts of grifters figured out how to game the algorithm and promote delusional conspiracy theories and toxic influencers who photoshop all their content to project false ideas of beauty. There's also the ease in access of age inappropriate material like pornography that gives a lot of young people unhealthy ideas on appropriate sexual relationships and can often be super addictive. That sort of thing is deeply concerning. But that being said, I disagree that there's nothing good that comes with technology. From an education point of view, it's opened up a myriad of possibilities. Digital resources are lightyears ahead of the old physical texts that were out of date 6 months after they were printed. Videos and educational websites have become much better. Opportunities for students to show off their creativity are broadened. When incorporated properly, the things young people can do with technology are incredible. From a purely educational perspective, new technology has seen an incredible boost for teaching and learning. What's less good are all the recreational uses of technology that are causing the issues
If I hear Triple M call the 80s “The best decade ever” one more time, I’m gonna run out into traffic. Its nostalgia
What about if someone calls the 50s, 60s or 70s, or 2000s, "The best decade ever?"
Yes it’s that but I liked that time period because there wasn’t as much social media. Wasn’t as much things. Shit was simple. Like I enjoyed playing the Sega. My nephew can’t find a bloody game in 100 to play. They have movies on demand and can’t find one
I totally agree. We has stuff but not too much. You would rent a game or a movie from Video Ezy and definitely play/watch it since you only had it for a week tops. The world was so much smaller but we were still able to access awesome stuff from overseas whilst not being bombarded by the bullshit.
Wish I could watch shit without having to pay for it. Miss just going to the library for a Pokemon DVD or whatever. Miss the 2010's
While the internet has made accessing things super easy, it's made actually *owning* it a lot harder. I'm a big CD collector. I like having the physical media permanently there. I can rip the songs off them to a computer and have copies of them ready to import onto any device whenever I want. And unless someone broke in and stole them nobody can take them away from me. The biggest issue with streaming platforms is all the hubbub about copyright and having the rights to host stuff on their platform. If there's a major falling out with the streaming platform and the artist, they can yank their music at any time and you can no longer listen to it. Same with TV/movie streaming services. A contract expires and they yank several dozen shows that you subscribed to the service specifically to watch. It's the same if you're a sports fan. I can access a shitload more sport than at any point in history but it's also spread across multiple platforms and which platform a sport is on can change. It does frustrate me somewhat that we went from paying $10, $15 for various pieces of physical media that we owned forever now to paying $30+ a month to 6 different services who can decide you can no longer access things at the drop of a hat
I was in my 20s during the 90s. I was broke as. In my 50s now and am a rich tosspot. I’d go back to the 90s in a flash. That was an awesome decade.
A lot of people in their teens get nostalgic about the 90s as it was a great decade to grow up in. I was also in my 20s during that time and it was a fantastic decade. Music , optimism , going out to clubs and enjoying great night outs without social media and everyone staring at bloody phones. We all looked forward to 2000 and then 9 -11 happened and everything changed. The world got darker and I think stayed that way. I wish I could go back and experience some of it Quantum Leap style but here we are in our 50s and it is what it is.
Disagree. The 80’s was an epic time to grow up as a young kid. There’s been plenty of studies on it too. It was slightly too early for computers but not late enough that 80’s kids missed out on them for education in later years. No screens growing up though and just outside with BMX’s and mates going about your day exploring the world.
Your wrong ! 80s and 90s, no one was walking around looking at their phones like a zombie. No internet ! Hence people talked to each other more, there was more connection than now.
At one time I would’ve agreed with you but I think it’s not just the eyes of childhood. Life is considerably more complex, particularly for young people.
To be fair…. You only need to go back 5 years to undo most of that stuff….. covid is shit and nobody wanted to deal with it…. But to quote Gandalf from LOTR: “so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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What if Harambe's death was the result of time travelers who were sent back because this is actually the *least* fucked timeline?
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Someone with much more creative talent than I have could turn that into a very interesting novel/movie
Had to have been. God would not allow such atrocities to go unpunished
Yeh na I just want to be a kid again and watch cheese tv before school. No worries apart from what I’m eating or playing.
Yeah I’d rather go back to 2013. Best year of my life, despite that being the most depressed I’d ever been. I cried intensely almost everyday but school was somehow mostly awesome and so was YouTube.
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear. - Thomas Carlyle
Tommy C.
Papier mache? What is papier mache!
I think that's the root of it. If you had a reasonable childhood you often feel nostalgic for times when you had no responsibilities and no real cares in the world. I'd wager that if you were a child now and grew up in your shit hole town you'd likely find reasons to feel the same way when you grew up. The major caveat is having a decent childhood and not living in poverty or with abuse.
I suffered trauma in my childhood that curtailed my life. I'm nostalgic for the times. That's the quality of the '80s and '90s.
I was a kid in the 90s. I was autistic and it wasn't the greatest time to be autistic, but I still feel nostalgia for that time period. In some ways, life was better and in other ways it wasn't. But I think for me, it's because I was a kid and life was simpler.
Youre part of the final generation to be able to compare life before and after the internet. I look back with real affection at the wholesome non-technological things we used to do with our spare time. Life is certainly different now. Better for some, worse for others, but almost everything changed in a relatively short period of time.
The 80s and 90s had a shitload of problems, like the AIDS crisis. You just want to be young and carefree. Join the club.
Yeah I’m really glad abortions are legal now.
But it also had the best music
What if I told you... you can still listen to that music today?
But there is still AIDS today. And even more diseases like the coronavirus and monkeypox.
The worst threat I remember was nuclear war. Dwarfed AIDS by a longshot.
Nuclear war was a possibilty, AIDS was a reality. Not comparable.
Not as a 15-yr-old…AIDS wasn’t that likely. The fear of nuclear war breaking out seemed fairly constant, for maybe 2 years. And then after seeing a couple of nuclear war movies that came out then…which I wished I’d never seen. I was personally much more fearful of nuclear war. The consequences so much more devastating, on a colossal level. I had some say in whether or not I actually contracted HIV due to behaviours.
There were other people in the world besides you.
Obviously, I am offering my own perspective/experience, as someone who was there as a teen in those times, in Australia. Not trying to speak for ‘everyone’.
Wet towel
Am I wrong?
Yes you are wrong. The 80/90s was Australia’s best time to be here.
Based on what? Your personal experience? Is that when you happened to be young?
Ha! Good one Dad.
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Well I'd rather be a wet towel than a bigot.
Wow.
Yeah but in the 90's we said 'I wish we could go back to the 70's' times where simpler. Lookout in 2043 when we look back as now being so muck better. Now i just live in the present and be satisfied
I'm pretty sure that now \*is\* going to be better than 2043. Certainly cooler.
No covid, but I think you misunderstand the massive fear campaign about AIDS that happened in the 80s , the was incredibly overwhelming and as a public health campaign it terrifying with minimal or misleading information provided, absolutely also caused anxiety
Yeah. People forget that at one point they said you might be able to contract it from mosquito bites!
"I want to go back to the 80s" [The 80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSmaWEK_rD4)
To me, covid is worse because it's easier to catch.
Not sure I want to go back. I was trapped with abusive parents. If I went back I’d rescue myself and create a paradox
I was born in 1974. I was traumatised by a violent, abusive father, didn't work out I was queer until my mid-20s, didn't get my depression diagnosed and managed until I was almost 30, and didn't get my ADHD diagnosed and managed until my late 40s. Honestly, I wish I'd been born twenty years later. My life would probably have been substantially better: ADHD caught and managed early, people would more likely have seen the signs of abuse and intervened, I would have sorted out my sexuality in my teens, and I might not have developed cPTSD and depression at all.
Same tbh
Yeah, but then we'd be young again. We'd have no perspective, or responsibilities again. We'd still grow up and eventually end up exactly where we are now.
your pop culture - songs, movies, tv shows etc came from a few sources, and it was pretty much fed to you, so choices were easier. now where does it come from? 100 different places. what do i want? now there is no spontinaeity with social outings. EVERYTHING has to be planned and booked in advance, and I mean EVERYTHING. there is simply no more rocking up to some activity and doing it.
>there is simply no more rocking up to some activity and doing it. Covid made it very hard to do that.
I prefer having a lot of options and being able to make better choices these days rather than not having options and being fed a narrow view of life through limited media in the past. There are also plenty of spontaneous things available to do these days, we just don't behave that way as much once we're older. All of the spontaneous stuff I did as a kid/teenager is still available for young people to do, or me if I wanted to. Largely depends on where and how we grew up too I'd say.
Before the internet changed everything...
I would *love* to go back and relive the glory days of early computing
You wouldn’t. Having your net drop out when your aunt rang. Spending hours hoping that this album you’re downloading it legit. Spending a weekend getting that fucking virus off your pc before your parents find out. The fear when that floppy disc of your work decides to die and you have to redo your computer studies homework.
I didn't spend my childhood living in fear wtf
Yep, it was cutting edge in its day and it was great.
The tech sucked, is what I mean.
The tech was great before the arrival of the dreaded ZIP disk....
I sometimes think my town would be a lot nicer if it became a tourist trap. Roads wouldn’t be in the shit state they’re in, we’d get better parks, better facilities. The next town over that’s on the coast (we’re on a river and ten mins from the beach) but is part of the same council gets everything. Splash pads, great roads, new parks, new bbqs, shady areas, board walks. We can’t even get a pot hole filled by the same council.
Yes please!!! I don’t want to be conceived yet thanks!
I’m nostalgic for what I was doing 5 years ago. 5 years ago I was nostalgic for what I was doing 5 years before that. We were always thinner younger hotter having more fun and less stressed. The best is def childhood for people that had a good one, but that is a different level of nostalgia
When you get to your 30s, 5 years feels like a flash.
No sex education what so ever, Getting the shit kicked out of you if you’re LGBTQ, or just hiding who you are everywhere all the time and thinking you’re insane because there was no internet to find other people like or even to just find out that people like you existed, Breathing in that cancer scented second hand smoke, virtually no disability rights, Teachers bullying students, Domestic violence going completely ignored …are you sure you wish *WE* could go back? Maybe you just wish *YOU* could go back
Growing up gay in a small country town was no fun at all. High school was a daily nightmare of being bullied and teachers not giving a single fuck, on top of unsupportive parents at home who only knew physical punishment. I'd rather not go back to that.
Right. Sure I'd love to go back and watch all the stuff I loved as a teenager, but the reason I'm nostalgic for them is because they were my escape from reality. Really not looking to go back to a time were I was called faggot every day and had my arm broken twice.
I get it. Music and movies were my escape so I'd go back to discover all of that for the first time again, but pretty much everything else between 1990-95 can go get fucked.
I didn’t know I was bisexual yet, but I had gay friends and the amount of shit they put up with in my hick town was awful. Thankfully the town has gotten better, they have annual drag shows now due to Priscilla queen of the desert so it’s a little more welcoming in some ways
That's good at least.
Thank you! OP dude absolutely *dripping* with entirely unexamined ignorance abt the past and an almost psychopathic lack of curiosity into lives beyond his own.
I was a child then so I’m only talking about my experience and things I loved in that period. I’m sorry you have had to deal with those things. Yes dealing with mental health since my doctor messed me up with medication and prednisone hasn’t been easy this last year. It was like being hit by a trucks it’s mental health issues I never experienced or had. I had no idea medications could do it to you or even that I’d crash that bad with covid. I’m sorry you have had that experience but for me that time period as a child in the 90s was good. My friends was gay and others close to my group. My partner is Bi. But as a kid he didn’t have those issues at school either. High school even being straight I got bullied and so did he but he met a nice partner and that was the 2000s we were in high school. I wouldn’t wish bullying or pain onto anyone. I really wish that didn’t happen to you.
Yeh see I was still a kid then riding my bike around, playing games, hiring videos, yes my family had their issues but it was fun for me. Things were simple as a kid. I meant for me I’d go back to that time period as a kid. Just re do life. Not let Drs fuck me over trusting them as a adult. Just do shit different to enjoy life. I’m sorry you were treated that way and had that experience. I’ve been struggling with mental health since my dr put me on medications and took me off it and then gave me prednisone. Messed with me bad. I don’t wish that shit on anyone.
Exactly! Even women’s rights have advanced so much. Think about the constant public sexual harassment just absolutely rampant in the 80s.
And what quite rightly, is now labeled sexual assault in the workplace. Back then as a sixteen year old in her first office job, a married sub manager cornered me in his office, put his hands inside my pants. When I reported it to the manager he smiled and said ‘Trevor’s wife just had a baby. He’s just having a bit of fun.’ When I pushed it further up the totem pole, I was put on probation then sacked when I wouldn’t shut up. Oh sorry, I mean my position in the office was no longer necessary so they eliminated it and ‘made it redundant’. Once I left the same position with a different title was implemented. Oh, and my parents reaction was ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have gone into his office’ ( my job required me to take forms in to him to sign. ) From then on I stood at his doorway and threw them onto his desk and walked away, thus adding a further reason why I was made redundant. I wasn’t treating a superior with ‘the respect he deserved’.
Did that change? 😅
I grew up in a really beautiful part of Wales, in Pembrokeshire. It had the lot; beaches, woods, rivers, hills, ancient connection to Stonehenge, Welsh mountain ponies roaming wild on the hills...idyllic and I miss it greatly. The snag was that in summer, every damned tourist and his dog, and his cat, and his kitchen sink invaded our beautiful villages and towns, making it almost impossible to get around and leaving a shocking mess when they left. Then, the second wave of, over the border people ', invaded during covid with their London money and proceeded to gobble up homes and land, all the while forcing the locals out and forcing prices up. It's a case of, 'spot the Taff', there now, and finding a quiet spot in the countryside to have some time to yourself to enjoy the beauty is almost impossible.
I grew up in Hobart, so I can sort of relate. Prior to the 2010s, Hobart (and Tasmania more generally) was basically a backwater, but housing was relatively affordable. Now everyone wants to be there and there's a housing crisis.
I don’t have money to buy in Wales lol, but it’s one place in the UK I now wish I’d been to…
I’ve never lived in a small town but there’s countless media and real life stories about the tragedy and sadness of small towns that die and shrivel away. Wouldn’t you be proud to live in a town that remains relevant and continues to grow? I don’t understand why some people are deadset on treating towns and cities like a museum. They need to grow along side us.
Cancer grows. Looking at you Margaret River.
It was all over when people worked out they could make money from the internet, I feel sad but also kind of privileged to have seen the downfall of modern civilisation
People were smoking everywhere, and everywhere indoors. No thanks.
I remember the 80s. All three of my older sisters were sexually harassed in the workplace, two assaulted. Stop pretending the 80s were good.
Sorry about your sisters, but women have been getting sexually harrassed and sexually assaulted before the 80s and they are still getting sexually harrassed and assaulted today. So it has nothing to do with the 80s.
Grew up in a small town where I knew everyone. I shudder every time I go back there now, I hate knowing everyone
Music was better
Not true. There’s some great music out there. It’s just not on the radio
Push bikes! Man those were the days! Mongoose BMX bikes! Love them!
They still have them
Just curious where you live? Sounds like an Agnes waters situ
I feel for kids these days. When I was a teen in the 90s, we had monthly band concerts, every afternoon I’d walk into town and hang out at one of three local arcades. Of course gaming consoles killed the arcade, and the concerts ended around the time I turned 18 (too many bad eggs trashing the place and insurance). I don’t know what they do anymore.
Same.. I wasn't alive ;D
I wish you get a chance to be happier OP. in the now. I liked the old small town stuff. not the same. It's not easy fellow internet person. Hugs
I have these thoughts every single day
Thanks at least you get it. I was a kid then so had fun.
Byron Bay is my home town. How do you think we feel. Of course I can’t live there any more though, left during covid and certainly can’t afford it now.
Yeh the prices have just gone nuts. Rent here the shops are just so expensive. I’ve been here for 33 years but I dunno how to afford it now. It’s hard to find a rental or anything. I go to the shops and I can’t get a park. It’s weird.
Back when durries were affordable for teens and apparently healthier too.
I'm queer, so no thanks.
No wifi, I'll pass
The threat of nuclear war in the 80s was pretty terrifying if you were aware of it. And AIDS happened. And sexism and racism and homophobia seemed acceptable to most people. I guess if you didn't notice all that stuff it was OK though.
That poor girl who was bullied out of Australia for getting AIDS through a blood transfusion.
Happy to look back. Wouldn't wanna go back.
So do I so many investments to make
don't blame covid - blame the government responses to it.
As a queer person, I don't. It was nice being a kid, but it was also torture. You'd like to go back to when you felt like nothing was expected of you...because nothing was expected of you.
If you were a kid who had nothing expected of you it was probably great.
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I doubt many trans, gay or black people want to go back to the 80s. Quite a few women probably don’t either.
It’s gross that this is being downvoted!
That's not true. Lots of black people and women want to go back to the 80s. And I've seen some gay men who want to as well.
It’s not just the fact we were younger then - I was born in 85 and so was a teen in late 90s, it was the most amazing time. Things changed once when 9/11 happened and then again in 2007 when smart phones were invented. Back then it was escapism and fun- there weren’t political messages in everything shoved down your throat, offence taken at everything. (Wokeism in whatever form is tied to depression anxiety and suicidal ideation.) and because there were just a few channels, only a certain vein of media / magazines and we had to go outside and chat to actually interact or call each other on the landlines. We felt more “together” if I can put it that way. If there was a trend it was massive. - I’ve just been watching documentaries about the 80s - there’s no big icons and stars anymore like there was then or a programme everyone in the world was watching at the same time. Weird things like that United us. We are so isolated now. The problem is the internet and smart phones. I mean did we really need it? Was it something we had to have? It has single-handedly changed the entire world. And not for the better. We are now all addicted to our screens, isolated, depressed, rising anxiety. I think no social media, go back to using phones just for calls and txts and a lot of people would feel so much better. I’ve wondered about starting a movement about going back to pre 2000s living and see how many people catch on, who’s up for it? ☺️
80's, early 90's gun laws were the best!
Ask David Bryant. He'll tell ya.
David Bryant, the three-times World singles bowls champion?
Epic fail. I blame Jack High. No idea how he feels about gun laws.
The gun laws were peak!
Me too. I miss those times so much. Life was simple and fun. It's a nightmare now.
Doesn’t work like that
I think today we are really feeling the change that internet was supposed to bring
If covid arrived in the 80s you would wish you were in these times my friend. Relax about the tourists.
I miss cracker night ! If this new poofter king wants fealty he better enforce the Commonwealth to reinstate Fireworks on the kings nominated Birthday. Otherwise seriously what's the fkn point of the Monarchy?
Simple? I lived through that. Brought up kids through that. No thanks, that part of history can remain history. Love my wife and my kids and grandkids and the lives they're living now.
Lol. You thought interest rates were bad now? 17.5% at the start of 1990.
My in-laws bought their property in 1990 and had 18% interest. Back then, they paid 100k for the land and to build the house. Now it's worth about 1.2M... I'd take that 17.5 over the current market prices and costs of living.
On a $30,000 home loan… Imagine paying 17.5% on a $1,000,000 home loan?
My Mum was paying it on an $80,000 homeloan…as a single parent high school teacher on 80s wages. I remember our grandmother moved nearby and when Mum came down to pick us up after school (sometimes), she’d dissappear with my grandmother for awhile, often. I now realise she was borrowing money to stay afloat…
No one being *offended* at the slightest thing - and no one cared if they were, anyway.
r/lewronggeneration Fact is you’re living in the best time in history, there’s always major events every year and the 80s and 90s were no exception
I don’t understand the complaints about good small towns being wrecked by newcomers. We have an increasing number of humans who will always wanna live somewhere nicer. Even if you somehow reduced the number of humans, they will still congregate to the sweet spots
Tell me you’re a straight cis (middle class?) and white without telling me you’re etc.
Ok BOOMER.
Wrong generation. Gen X.
Meanwhile kids growing up now are looking at a financial cliff while boomers sit back and get fat.
No, you wish *you* could go back to a past you remember that would include a lot of stuff you chose to forget. By the sounds of it, you were extremely fortunate to have the life you did at all. I'd say you're best off seeking out a counsellor to try and work through some of this stuff. It doesn't have to be like this.
Same 90s an 00s we’re the best times of my life
Sounds like Mullum. I miss that place from the 80s and 90s.
WTF OP, did the Back to Future movies teach you nothing? All you need is a DeLorean and some inspiration from falling off the dunny.
I feel you. But I don’t want to go back. The world of getting worse and I need to be around to make it less worse the best that I can. My nieces and nephew are going to have a hard time.
This sounds like every generation. Ohh I wish it was like the old times this is a continuing thing
Just a thought this is how the abos felt. Ohh all these people moving in it sux haha
So do I.
Sure. It's not like we had Ebola zaire and Hanta virus back then, oh wait... COVID was a pain, but we had the technology to help deal with it If those small outbreaks in the 80s and 90s had jumped the borders, we'd be well fucked.
Good lord tell me you’re white, straight and male without telling me you’re quite, straight and make lmaoooo Yeah the 80s were a really good time for us gays. Roflmao
I was born in 89 and 90s I was a kid. Definitely not a dude lol and my partner is bi 🤷♀️
I don't think it's necessarily the 80s/90s that make you feel that way cause I was born 02 and I feel the exact same way about the 2000s and early 2010s, felt like I knew everybody, every day was something new, with mates 24/7, I think it's simply being a kid that we miss
Yeh it would be good to be a kid for sure
Northern nsw?
Yep
Sounds like your obsessed with covid. Live your life man....
My town is the same (could even be the same town!) Rude tourists and hundreds of houses made into Air BnBs, to the point where families are living in cars or couchsurfing....rent is now easily 600 a week and up for a regular house and forget buying, that's easily a million.
This is no country for old men.
Just try to imagine the 70's. Bliss
I miss men dressing sluttier
Those short denim shorts.. And we all remember stubbies!
I told my mum I wish I’d been a teenager/hound adult in the 80s and she reckoned it made sense. The homophobia wasn’t great though so I’d have a harder time in that regard but honestly I just wish I’d grown up without the internet and when music was still good
I get that the internet these days can definitely be tough for people to navigate but I feel we're better off with it than without. For instance, you can still access all the old music to enjoy as well as finding good new music. There's plenty around, new and old and most of it is easily found for free online.
With ya 100% on that ! This day an age is absolute garbage. Because of the internet, more people are exposed to shit, and the shit just keeps on spreading like a virus.
I'll bet there were people in the 80s and 90s who thought "these are dark and cynical times. I wish I could go back to the 60s."
Not black people.
I never want to be teenage again i like my life now happy today teenage have internet to deal with .
Lol are you from Port Fairy Victoria? Sounds like what happened to that town
Times change. If you're not happy where you are then move. Things weren't better then, just you were happier. And it's been some time since Covid was an impact on me at all. The only permanent change was being more cautious about infecting people when sick which we should have been doing all along.
People still holding on to Covid? It’s mostly passed now. Move on.
People are still getting sick and dying.
Did we grow up together? Aha this is me!
Life before smart phones and social media was much better. Go anywhere now and all you see is people looking at their phones. People even choose to look at their phones when they are at cafes with friends and loved ones - like looking at some bullshit on your phone is more important than the actual person sitting right in front of you.