<p>I've been pondering this question for a few days. I think I would've picked somewhere in the New England area, in the late 30's. America was just coming out of the Depression. I'd grow up during WWII, which while was a horrible conflict, forced America to come together (the "can-do spirit of America" as my USH teacher likes to call it). As a kid I would have been exposed to golden age of America, leading into the 50's (Leave It to Beaver anyone?).</p>
<p>How about you? Time era/country?</p>
<p>This is a really good question. Probably 1990s or later because of the Internet. Then again the 1970s/80s would be fun too because people still telnetted and used ytalk. I'm big on command-line apps. And everyone who used computers back then knew how they worked. Or maybe even earlier, because before people were out fiddling with computers they knew how to build stuff and fix stuff.</p>
<p>Actually, maybe I'd be happiest in some small town before the age of instant communication. Life was more stable back then and people were closer together. Then again, I am an Asian female, so I wouldn't want to go back to an era when women had no rights or Asians were persecuted.</p>
<p>Anyway, if I was going to be born now, I'd live in New York. There's great schools there and you can walk everywhere.</p>
<p>^ You know, big animals usually don't taste very good. :)</p>
<p>I would choose born in the 1960s, grow up in the 70s and 80s, in some small town or rural area in the north, like Iowa. I have always loved the small towns because I have lived in big cities all my life. I would love to just walk to places when I want to, not to go in a car the moment I step out of my house. Also in the 1970s, internet hasn't developed and so there weren't this crazy instant communication.</p>
<p>I completely agree with jamesford, exact era, exact region, exact same reason. I would love to be able to come together with my neighbors against a common enemy and share in the victory and the new institutions and technology coming about afterwards.</p>
<p>I wouldn't want to be born anywhere else in the world in any other time period. The chances of me being in a upper class family in one of the best public school districts in America are slim.</p>
<p>I would want to be born as a lady in Elizabeth I's court, or as Elizabeth herself. <3 I have a really good feeling about reincarnation, and I feel like i was there!</p>
<p>Whenever scarcity is eliminated, every conceivable energy need is solved, interstellar travel is achieved, terraforming perfected, and immortality unlocked. Ie in the distant future ;]</p>
<p>But if we're only talking about the past, and we disregard any advances in medicine and the like (so I don't die from one of the many many uncured diseases that ere around back then a month after my birth, haha. High infant mortality rates ftl...), then I'd probably want to enter ~maturity shortly after the revolutionary war and witness the birth of the country and whatnot. I'd also be very interested in exploring the then unexplored frontier, haha.</p>
<p>I'd also like to have lived sometime during the edo era, though that's more a flight of fancy than anything else, as I'm sure I wouldn't have liked it as much as I would like...</p>
<p>In the year 3000.</p>
<p>That is an amazing question.</p>
<p>If I couldn't be a different ethnicity, I probably wouldn't want to go back too far in time and stay in America. We used to be a very racist country (some areas still are, I guess), so that wouldn't be cool.</p>
<p>It'd be pretty sweet to participate in any revolution, though. American, Mexican, Bolshevik, viva la revolucion!</p>
<p>I would want to live through the sixties.</p>
<p>Some interesting responses here.</p>
<p>I wish I was born in America, basically any state will do. And I wish I was born in the 21st century, because my school system has all these new programs for the elementary schoolers now :/</p>
<p>i would rather have been born as my great grandfather. he was born around 1910 to italian immigrant parents. he grew up in north jersey. he worked with the mafia, but he wasn't a bad guy, he was really a community organizer in the eyes of most people. i cant reveal his position but he was a prominent figure in his community. he never went to college, and he didn't live exravagantly, but people had so much more respect for each other back then. we are islands unto ourselves now.</p>
<p>I actually like this time period...the internet is probably the single greatest thing for me, I'd die otherwise.</p>
<p>i like my date and place exactly the way it is... i wouldn't change it for the world</p>
<p>probably same time, either in NYC or london or somewhere in New England</p>
<p>Bethlehem year 0000 so I can meet Jesus woo!</p>
<p>2852 AD, Centauri Prime- Acting capital of the Human Federation. No real reason... I wish I could be in an age of space travel...</p>
<p>Born in Italy in th 15th cenutry and chill with machevalli, me and him could have done good</p>
<p>or born in the 1950s so i could fight in vietnam</p>
<p>I'd want to be born in 1620 so that 16 years later I could attend the newly established H without having a 2200+ SAT and a Great Wall of extracurriculars. I have like 0 ECs now, and if I keep being like this I won't even be able to graduate b/c my school has a requirement of 100 service hours.</p>