When would you like to have been born?

[Ade8mm]

Just been musing on the net with a good mate in Herefordshire.

I am stuck in the sand-pit -Sultanate of Oman (for the foresee-able) as I cant do a planned trip back at Easter to see loved ones and some Roebuck hunting. (Cant take the chance of not being allowed back - C virus etc).

Anyway . Got to thinking..

Though I would most likely be dead now I would have been better born around 1935 ish. Purely an academic exercise but was wondering.

Why 1935 ish?

Grow up in England (oh we cant say that anymore) According to FEO time before last when I renewed and put Nationality as "English", quote " I will make a note to the Home Office about you"
OK I was provoking the fellow but really?

Too young for WW2 (just saying)

Be the right age to enjoy the permissive "indulgences" of the 60's

Be able to hunt in Kenya in the first part of the '70's

(Still be able to enjoy the "indulgences" of the '70's)

Be wise enough - hopefully by then - to make a fortune in the 80's
Carry on as above (minus Kenya and the mayhem of the previous two decades) in the 90's

(And over the above periods , no internet, no social networking bulls*t , no reality garboil and gossip spreading negativity that it all entails - (apart from SD and a few other exceptions. Exceptions prove the rule yes? ) No Lead ammo issues, no packham, no issue about bringing back a bit of dead animal/fish from a hunting trips, still had WAGBI (fw it was worth). Charities still charitable ,not money machines. No extreme minority groups setting the agenda

2000 to date;
Enjoying my home, family and our small flock of sheep in retirement over the last 20 years
*Yet worrying to hell about where our youngsters go with all this)

Though given the above would probably already expired !! Hey ho. We all have to exit the stage sometime.

(I was born in '63 btw.)

Any one care to add their thoughts?


Ade

 

[AN DU RU FOX]

A few seconds before you brother.

 

[VSS]

Either a very long time ago, or not yet.

 

[JockStalk]

Like your thinking Ade and on the same vein I can give you the exact time, date and location (all best in Oman btw)

14 November 1948, at 9:14 pm.

Location, Buckingham Palace.

I'd have been the best apprentice the world has seen over the last 72 years, when I wasn't firing, fishing or fu…. well you get the idea.

 

[Feugh]

My Dad was born in ‘35 and considers himself lucky to have been. Too young for WW2 but old enough for national service, which he enjoyed. He saw the world opening up to travel but there were few enough people to let him enjoy it. Good medical care, final salary pension, less fundamentalism in the world. Yes, there were hard times and we had to scrimp despite him having a good job but he still considers his generation blessed.
He now thinks the world has gone mad, and I agree with him.

 

[Howzat]

1940 I think I have been lucky to have seen and done the best of the last of it, hunting, shooting ,fishing,water sports, boating, sailing., ski ing , motor cycle trials and scrambling, you couldn't do it the same today

 

[bowji john]

Not today - far too suffocating

I would like to be back in the 70's in Africa with the knowledge and experience I posses now

Occasionally I day dream of a life as a young adult in the African bush of the 1890's, but I suspect it was not as great as I imagine it

 

[Roestalker39]

A long time ago , pre snowflake

 

[tackb]

3020 ad , I really want a lightsabre !

 

[paul o']

When you could still bash a mugger or child pest and not get a worst sentence than they got ?

 

[Red Dragon 2]

Having spent a long time in Oman both Muscat and desert based, not so much of a hardship is it. As for when being born I think a bit like you, actual birth in 1949 but would have preferred it to have been just before the second world war.

 

[enfieldspares]

My father was born in 1907. So he was eleven when WWI ended and had his first shotgun on his twelfth birthday in 1919. He was by the late 1930s as pretty much all his cohort were in the Territorial Army and then mobilised for WWII. He died in 1987 so just two years too late to see the fall of the Berlin Wall.

 

[TURNBOLT]

1848 in America.

 

[Mossypaw]

1932.
Miss the war
Enjoy the freedoms my Uncles had in the post war Highlands.
Emigrate in the late 50’s to Canada or NZ and enjoy.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Simples:

K

 

[John Gryphon]

Her old dad would have eaten your liver in those days Klenchy.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Her old dad would have eaten your liver in those days Klenchy.

1966 wasn't that bad!

K

 

[Pedro]

Woah! A hard question.

Patently, life expectancy and medicine has (with a few hiccups like Spanish Flu and a couple of World Wars) generally got better as time has gone on. The restrictions on personal freedoms have also increased with the passage of time. There was a time when if you had a fairly good reason you could simply kill your enemy, possibly in a duel, or possibly if you found him breaking into your castle, or indeed your wife. But it's fair to say that today the restrictions have gone far past the reasonable and you can quite easily find yourself in trouble, legally for saying the wrong thing, which is merely expressing an opinion.

It's easy to hark back to a better time and rose tinted specs play a part in that. I suspect that those who want to live at some time in the past will want to do so with, shall we say, the benefit of "independent means". Because living in the past with not enough dosh was even more hellish than it is today. There's also the thing that the older you get, the better it was. Which isn't often true.

As for me? I had a decent career. I did get to retire with a good(ish) pension. I've got a great wife, three children and six grandchildren and at present, at least, I've still got enough of my health to be able to enjoy my family and interests. So I would say that being born in 1956, for me, has been okay. Not perfect, but okay.

 

[Fadcode]

Any time in the past when you could go into a shop buy a gun, strap it on, and go out looking for trouble, or go out ready to hunt for a good steak............and have change out of a fiver.

 

[old keeper]

I was born in 1937, knew a bit about the latter days of the war but too young to be too scared at the start. Lived in Devon virtually all my life, had unlimited shooting/ferreting and freedom in the countryside that will never be seen again. That'll do for me.