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In what era (if not the on you grew up in) would you have liked to have grown up in?

Few things got me thinking about this. I'm an early 80's child, was given a fair bit of freedom by my parents and had a good childhood. Nowadays parents including myself are scared to death about letting them off the leash because of the amount of nutters around. I'm also sat here listening to a rock music station playing 60s and 70's rock music and its fecking great compared to most of the fabricated shite out there now.

I've also travelled around a bit, mainly with work, and working in places in Asia where people really dont have a lot yet I've found them to be the happiest, most hospitable people around. Last week the electric went off in our house for a couple of hours and the kids thought their world had come to an end, what do you mean i cant get on the internet? was the whine!!!

Granted I enjoy creature comforts, I enjoy watching formula 1 in HD and reading peoples build blogs on the internet but I dont feel i depend on it like others do. I'm just as happy out on my bike on the middle of nowhere or up a hill somewhere.

Whats everyones thoughts on this?

late 60's for me, born in 80 and feel if id been born bit earlier id have experienced the best 10 years of cars - 80's turbo era. I remember seeing supercars as a kid, it was a real moment, now superfast cars are 10 a penny, just not the same. fuel was peanuts and the roads so much quieter and without cameras. iv seen some special kit but the single memory that Ill never forget is coming home from oulton park in my dads hf intergrali and 2 rs200's raced past at warp speed. magical

I would have liked to been in my early 20's in the 70's

I am 40ish, and think that the seventies and eighties were a great time to be growing up, certainly much later and the panic seems to have set in. I was also one of the last to benefit from a fully funded degree course,... and to have a job straight afterward in engineering. Perhaps a decade earlier would have been ok, but a decade later would not be good in my opinion.
I'm with you on the music too, but there is no shortage of rock still on the radio, so atleast there is still hope.

It's interesting thought, while you say:

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Nowadays parents including myself are scared to death about letting them off the leash because of the amount of nutters around.

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To a large extend it is the Media reporting that effects peoples decisions on this. I was born in 1960 and my Mum used to put my sister and I outside the front door in prams as babes while she cleaned the house. She also didn't eat on Fridays as there wasn't enough money (Dad was in the RN and it wasn't very well paid) but we kids never went short. My parents also moved house (with a 3 year old & 2 year old) on a push bike.

I remember watching England win the world cup in 1966 (vaguely), the moon landing, glam rock & free festivals on the stones at Stonehenge. The world has moved on considerably, but not always for the better.

I'll let you know when I have grown up. But after 69 years. there's no sign of it happening

I agree with Macbeast - still growing up at 62.

However I couldn't have had a better childhood in the 50's, then teenage years through 60's to 70's - a good time to grow up as lot's of freedom and very little crime to worry about and drug use and binge drinking and it's attached selfishness was almost unknown - to my mind drunk or drugged people spoil the fun for everyone not involved and are totally selfish - the only big downer was the injustices in SA of the time, which one became more and more aware of as one matured.

When I read Tom Saywer as a kid I though that sounded perfect - climb out of your bedroom window at night and go rafting on the Mississippi, and no school!

So late 19th century Southern America for me!

I was born in 63, maybe move to 1960 because it would have made buying a house a little easier but apart from that it's been good.

With regards to safety, I have never felt unsafe and blame the news for making people feel that way, drugs and booze have been around for years but I do think that over the last 10 years some peoples respect for others has slid but on the whole we live in a safe and tolerant society that rewards hard work.

Regards Mark

Victorian era... I would have quite fancied buying, dismantling and redistributing penny-farthing parts on the www.yemodestlypricedfabricators.co.uk website

I was born in 1960, wouldn't change anything.

We had enough, all we really wanted was a bike and bats balls etc. we used to spend lots of time building bikes from, well, scrap, and trading parts etc, locost cycling in the 60s.

Everything was a lot simpler then, maybe my parents didn't think so, but my lasting memories of long summer holidays and trying to squeeze everything into the last Sunday of the 6 weeks holidays before being shouted in for bath time....

70's got a bit more serious, especially 76 when I got a Garelli Tiger Cross.....

and I still have never owned a games console

Im 40 next month. Loved my childhood, vague memories of the 70's. The 80's were great as a kid. Got into music, had a good childhood, remember doing some of the things we did, and now as a parent things are different. But not that different for my kids, except most of the music nowadays is tripe. (sign of old age there!!)

But as for an era for growing up, I will stick to the one in which I did. As for actually growing up like others have said, not quite sure I have really.

Being born in early 80s i quite like my era. my parents were liberal due to the time of their up bringing but also timed well with huge growth in the UK. i also consider my age group as the first of the Information Technology era. i am not afraid of any new technology and grew up with pc being super slow so have a legacy to preach to my kids.

i missed out driving in the 80s, arguably the best car era but as a child i had the best dreams and inspirations!

I will hopefully live to see nuclear fusion become a energy source and petrol prices be peanuts again. ill probably be about 70 though!!

I don't feel i have missed out on rock as its just as strong now as ever. i can also listen to the beetles in perfect clarity with no screaming girls to spoil it!!

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Being born in early 80s i quite like my era. my parents were liberal due to the time of their up bringing but also timed well with huge growth in the UK. i also consider my age group as the first of the Information Technology era. i am not afraid of any new technology and grew up with pc being super slow so have a legacy to preach to my kids.

i missed out driving in the 80s, arguably the best car era but as a child i had the best dreams and inspirations!

I will hopefully live to see nuclear fusion become a energy source and petrol prices be peanuts again. ill probably be about 70 though!!

I don't feel i have missed out on rock as its just as strong now as ever. i can also listen to the beetles in perfect clarity with no screaming girls to spoil it!!

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I'd want to grow-up just a few years before I did! I was born in '71 but living in a sleepy village in the middle of knowhere, I missed most of the good stuff! We didn't have a telly until I found a broken one and fixed it when I was about ten. I used to go and collect my mam from work in whatever car I was tinkering with when I was about 13. That was about the time I got my first Magenta kit car and learnt how to start our old series 1 Landy with the starting handle. If I'd been born a few years earlier, I would have seen more mini-skirts and bra-less chicks......just like on the re-runs of the Professionals.

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Originally posted by scootz
Victorian era... I would have quite fancied buying, dismantling and redistributing penny-farthing parts on the www.yemodestlypricedfabricators.co.uk website

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Seriously though, I'm quite happy to have been a 70's / 80's child. I reckon I've lived through the years of most technological advancement. Most things from this point on will be an evolution of existing technologies.

That said, I reckon I'll also have lived through the period where we truly ****** the planet!

I'm holding out for an era that has not happened thus far. Maybe the 2050s.

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Seriously though, I'm quite happy to have been a 70's / 80's child. I reckon I've lived through the years of most technological advancement. Most things from this point on will be an evolution of existing technologies.

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But all in all I quite liked 'growing up' in the 90s, I got Mobile phones and the birth of the internet which aided my 'man slut' days no end!

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Seriously though, I'm quite happy to have been a 70's / 80's child. I reckon I've lived through the years of most technological advancement. Most things from this point on will be an evolution of existing technologies.

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No we still have warp drives, transporter and replicator technology to look forward to!

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I was born in 1970 and I remember being poo scared of global nuclear war. At least this generation don't have that to worry about.

I was born 63, and am happy with that.

I did consider that the most impressive generation to be would be that of my grandmother, who died in the 1980's. She was born in the 19th centry, would have have only known horses as private transport as a kid, yet before she died man was on the moon.

Current developments in medical, computer and other fields may be impressive, but it's not like when suddenly one day a car drives past, or a plane flies overhead, when you have never see anything like it before.

Cheers

Fred W B



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Originally posted by Fred W B
I was born 63, and am happy with that.

I did consider that the most impressive generation to be would be that of my grandmother, who died in the 1980's. She was born in the 19th centry, would have have only know horses as private tranport as a kid, yet before she died man was on the moon.

Current developments in medical, computer and other fields may be impressive, but it's not like when suddenly one day a car drives past, or a plane flies overhead, when you have never see anything like it before.

Cheers

Fred W B

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Born in '64 and on the whole had a brilliant childhood in the 70's.
Most of my everyday clothes were either hand-me-downs from older cousins, bought at the local jumble sale or made by my mum on her sewing machine!
Still, it meant I could get plastered in mud etc. without too much worry while climbing trees, building dens and tarzan rope swings with my mates or hurling ourselves down the steepest hills on our home-made pram-wheeled trolleys (local term for go-carts) with no regard for our safety whatsoever (still there were far fewer cars then.)
During school holidays and at weekends, I would get kicked out of the house at around 9.30 with a little money for a pasty and drink, and would not be expected home again 'til teatime!
I wasn't allowed to use the newly installed phone to ring my mates (unless I paid for it out of my meagre pocket money) and had to walk or cycle to their houses to see if they were in.
We were all fit as fleas, skinny as rakes and brown as berries during those seemingly long hot summers.
All that said, I reckon I would liked to have been born some 7 or 8 years earlier just so |I could be a teenager around the birth of glam and heavy rock in the early 70's.

I was born in '85, which I think makes me a young one on here?

Although I see what people say about missing out on the 80s era for cars, I quite liked growing up during the 90s and early 00's. Technology almost seemed to progress with me, and as my friends and me wanted the enxt best thing, it arrived.

Have to agree with the comment above about the internet, and of cause social networking (THANK YOU MYSPACE!) did a lot for me

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Born in '64 and on the whole had a brilliant childhood in the 70's.
Most of my everyday clothes were either hand-me-downs from older cousins, bought at the local jumble sale or made by my mum on her sewing machine

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I wasn't allowed to use the newly installed phone to ring my mates (unless I paid for it out of my meagre pocket money) and had to walk or cycle to their houses to see if they were in.

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Some great responses there! I really could imagine a scootz emporium of used victorian carriage parts!

I agree with a lot of the comments regarding technology, It kind of grew at the same time I did so feel completely at ease with it, however I still cant abide facebook or twitter, Facebook great for contacting old mates but not for finding what dave had for his lunch 10 mins ago etc.

Agree the media has a lot to answer for in this day in age, this morning looked at the front cover of the record (mickey mouse scottish tabloid for those south of the border) full page spread and 2 more inside on the situation at Rangers, no mention of the 6 soldiers killed fighting for their country in afghanistan until page 5 or 6, a complete disgrace, who really cares about bloody rangers when people are dying

For me personally I would have like to have been a bit earlier to see a lot of my favourite classic cars in their original condition rather than rotten restoration projects.

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I was born in 1970 and I remember being poo scared of global nuclear war. At least this generation don't have that to worry about.

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I was born in 1970 and I remember being poo scared of global nuclear war. At least this generation don't have that to worry about.

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i rmember watching "threads " i think it was called and being a bit freaked out by it as a kid ,

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Has anybody on here realy grown up? We're all still playing with toy cars.

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Has anybody on here realy grown up? We're all still playing with toy cars.

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And then once the cold-war ended, they traumatised us even further by telling us we were all going to catch AIDS just from looking at each other...

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But all in all I quite liked 'growing up' in the 90s, I got Mobile phones and the birth of the internet which aided my 'man slut' days no end!

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I was born in 1968 and having observed the teenagers living in our house I'm actually really glad my teenage years were spent without mobile phones, the internet and especially Facebook! I wouldn't want to be without them now (with the exception of Facebook) but I don't see being in constant contact with your 'friends' when you're a teenager as being a step forward.

Being born in the 60's is about right I reckon (although I'm obviously slightly biased!) the freedom of being a kid in the 70's, seeing 'youth culture' evolve (it just goes round in circles now) and watching technology take off.

I'll be honest I don't miss the cars - 70's and 80's cars are vastly overated nowadays, yeah some of the top of the range/sports versions were okish but most people didn't drive them they drove the base models and I'm sorry but an 1100 MK2 Escort/1300cc MK 4 Cortina/ 1100cc Chevette/1100 Allegro etc etc were pretty horrible then and are pretty horrible now!

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I would have liked to been in my early 20's in the 70's

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I would have liked to been in my early 20's in the 70's

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Everyone's a child of their times. No choice to be otherwise.
I'm a 'baby-boomer.' b 1948.
The late 50s (Ted's--teddy boys) and early 60s were fabulous. Winkle-picker boots and 'elephant's trunk quiffs.'
As 10 yr olds we'd set off for the day with a pack of sarnies and a bottle of 'spanish juice', (an old pop bottle into which was poured hot water and a liquorice stick to give it flavour. ha'penny a stick)). Treck from Burnley to Pendle Hill (Barley) over the fields via Fence and the style at the back of the Sparrow Hawk pub. "Make sure you're home before dark", was the only caveat.
Burnley 'Mechanics Institute' in 1963 to see the Kinks, (who no-showed), drunk in the lav by 10pm.
Hollies and the Beatles at Nelson Imp (Imperial Ballroom) in the mid 60s.
Man on the moon 1969, same year as Woodstock.
"Turn on, tune in, trip out," was the mantra of Doctor Timothy Leary.
I'd love to write a book.

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I was born in 1939, lived through the 2nd world war, (although remember very little about it), evacuated to a farm near Royston. It was by far the best time to be born. When I started riding bikes, (motor kind) there were no silly blanket speed limits, and very few cars, you could do the main roads as fast as you could go. If you got pulled on minor roads you could usually outrun the copper on there Triumph speed twins, and their cars didn't stand an earthly. Went through the worst part of the Cold War in the services, when the warnng light was often at amber and occasionaly at red, but hell we/I was going to live for ever, (so far, so good). I think that whenever you are born, the times you live through always seem the best, because thats what you are used to, but I know my time WAS definately the best, Regards Ray

Born 66


Good year for me and English football




Spent my time, catching frogs and newts, fishing, catching bees in a coffee jar, catching mice, killing rats with air rifles and cattys.


Bonfires where we cooked spuds, chased each other all over the North east with toy rifles, bayoneted each other, rode bikes 25 miles to watch the aircraft taking off, cooking with my grandmother. working on the family friends farm at harvest time, driving the gorgeous David Brown tractor


going to my brothers friends, to see twin engine dragbikes, drag cars (Mid 70s) and other car mad things.



riding my other brothers Suzuki TS125 , his RD400, His GT750 between the ages of 14 and 16 - he caught me ! Ouch.....



Passing my test and driving my brothers BMW 323i Alpina - wow




its all too serious now, its a shame

Everyone's a child of their times. No choice to be otherwise.
I'm a 'baby-boomer.' b 1948.
The late 50s (Ted's--teddy boys) and early 60s were fabulous. Winkle-picker boots and 'elephant's trunk quiffs.'
As 10 yr olds we'd set off for the day with a pack of sarnies and a bottle of 'spanish juice', (an old pop bottle into which was poured hot water and a liquorice stick to give it flavour. ha'penny a stick)). Treck from Burnley to Pendle Hill (Barley) over the fields via Fence and the style at the back of the Sparrow Hawk pub. "Make sure you're home before dark", was the only caveat.
Burnley 'Mechanics Institute' in 1963 to see the Kinks, (who no-showed), drunk in the lav by 10pm.
Hollies and the Beatles at Nelson Imp (Imperial Ballroom) in the mid 60s.
Man on the moon 1969, same year as Woodstock.
"Turn on, tune in, trip out," was the mantra of Doctor Timothy Leary.
I'd love to write a book.

"Born in '64 and on the whole had a brilliant childhood in the 70's.
Most of my everyday clothes were either hand-me-downs from older cousins, bought at the local jumble sale or made by my mum on her sewing machine!
Still, it meant I could get plastered in mud etc. without too much worry while climbing trees, building dens and tarzan rope swings with my mates or hurling ourselves down the steepest hills on our home-made pram-wheeled trolleys (local term for go-carts) with no regard for our safety whatsoever (still there were far fewer cars then.)
During school holidays and at weekends, I would get kicked out of the house at around 9.30 with a little money for a pasty and drink, and would not be expected home again 'til teatime!
I wasn't allowed to use the newly installed phone to ring my mates (unless I paid for it out of my meagre pocket money) and had to walk or cycle to their houses to see if they were in.
We were all fit as fleas, skinny as rakes and brown as berries during those seemingly long hot summers.
All that said, I reckon I would liked to have been born some 7 or 8 years earlier just so |I could be a teenager around the birth of glam and heavy rock in the early 70's. "

Pretty well, ME !

I was born in 60, and did pretty well all the above, i had forgotten the phone ban!! yep my house had that as well,

My best mate lived about 100 YARDS away,but his and my bedroom type of faced each other, we did morse code with torches even worked in the day if you stood way back from the window

My favorite band is Deep purple, and i was to young to see them in there heyday, but still prefer heavy metal to any toyband of today

I remember the first TV in the house apart from the Lounge was in my bedroom, 1981, i was 21,
cassette tapes, and taping stuff off the radio

the colour schems/decorating! my bedroom walls were bright orange, and the ceiling light blue, hideous now, but looked fine when i was a kid

They were really good times, and as a kid 8ish and on, i was never in the house or home, yet my 11yr old Grandson never plays outside, and isnt really allowed to do much at all, so plays on xbox etc for 24 hours a day

sad really

Steve