What was the best decade to live in your county?
70's here.
1995-2005
>>51615147
us 90s kids xP
>>51615105
50s
>>51615147
that
1979-1989
>>51615105
90s
Pretty fucking difficult to answer since I'm only 28 years old. I'd be surprised if most of you are even that old desu.
>>51615105
Were you even alive in the 70s?
50s
>>51615416
hello grandpa :-D
1940-1945
>>51615105
60s I guess, after rationing ended, before everything went wrong. Otherwise probably a pre-war decade so (19)00s or 30s
1930's, 1980's. First half of 00's.
>>51615346
90s were horrible from a cultural standpoint
>>51615386
>I'd be surprised if most of you are even that old desu.
most people who come here an hero before they turn 30.
it's like a conveyor belt
2
>>51615552
madchester though
End of 90s. Fuck anything before that. (Latvia)
0
>>51615105
The internet one
1
1350-1360
probably pre 1990, before Belgium got traumatized by pedophile practices, complete lack of trust in government and the cultural enrichment
>>51615615
Funny you should say that. I was considering doing that when I turn 30.
5
The late 30's to the early 60's desu.
>proper economic policy
>good political system
Downside is the mafia was present in nearly every big city, and safety/environment wasn't really a priority.
>>51615105
The late 80's and all of the 90's in Canada was pretty comfy
The 60s of course
70s were meh in Germany because terrorism and economic problems and such
also hippies
>>51615994
man those times rocked
90's sucked here, what about you?
>>51615105
late 20s, early 30s.
>>51616355
>>51616125
My dad lived and taught in 80's Canda. Loved it and still nostalgic about it.
>not the late 80s and early 90s
You just want your fifteen minutes of fame.
I'm not trying to meme but the 90's seemed pretty good.
Cold War was over, race relations seemed better than they are today (barring the Rodney King stuff), SNL was funny. 2001 fucked our shit up but early 2000s even seemed alright until the recession.
Post-WWII seemed like it was a good time too t bh
>>51615905
Why? Do you yearn for a time when the French people and countryside were being raped by the English or something?
There's no such thing as "Best time that's gone" especially for countries with a long history. Each period has it's downs and benefits. Take what you can get right now, work to improve things. You can enjoy both charm of past decades and your everyday life, it has it's magic either. Stop being silly.
>>51616804
Here comes Ivan to keep us grounded...
>>51616319
now sucks 2bh
50/60's desu
100% white, one of the best living standards in the world, and the fourth largest air force in the world
the 90s definetely
>>51615147
That's half of one decade and half of another.
>>51615461
>>51615416
Samefag.
Showa 60 - Heisei 2
right now actually
nostalgiafags will tell you anything but 1945-1989 was shit, 1989 - 2000 was shit getting less shit and 2000 - 2010 was okay
right now it's the fucking golden age man
>>51619145
golden like all the toilets you're cleaning :DDD
60 - 70s
>>51619967
Didn't you economy only start recovering in the 80's?
Or are you talking about traditional values.
>>51616713
1988fag here
For Americans 90's is objectively the only possible choice, unless you're old enough to remember the 1950's or 1960's, which I can't attest to. But the Vietnam War and mutually-assured destruction sounds like it sucked. I don't think anyone can say the 70's were the best decade... right?
But yeah in the 90's Cold War was over, we're the last remaining superpower, no ISIS or al-Qaeda in prominence yet. Shit's great. Our mortal enemy for the last 50 years is a fucking wreck and we're actually giving them aid and loans.
Economy was booming, Clinton was in the White House, worst political crisis was Clinton getting a blowjob. None of this Tea Party faggotry. Militarily we had Persian Gulf War and Bosnia (our bad on that last one), kicked ass.
A Golden Age for TV (Friends, Seinfeld, classic Simpsons, KotH, all that Nickelodeon shit).
A Golden Age for vidya (Super Mario, Mario 64, Golden Eye, Half-Life, Starcraft, C&C; Super Nintendo, N64 and FUCKING SEGA)
Music was awesome too (no autotune, you actually had to be semi-talented)
Compared to the 2000s it fucking rocked.
>>51620070
>Or are you talking about traditional values
So, being under the total iron grip of the Church where you have to marry at 16 and have minimum four kids and all birth control is banned and you're required to give your son to a priest to be molested?
Because, that was the summation of Spain and Ireland in those days.
>>51619145
Golden age for me fucking your mom, you cheap polish whore
>>51620074
>Clinton was in the White House, worst political crisis was Clinton getting a blowjob.
>Clinton
>the guy who started the NSA police state
>good
Also you know Monicagate was just a ruse to cover up for the real malicious stuff he did.
>>51620074
>1988fag here
You mean 1998. Come on, you sound like an underage Facebook kiddie who thinks he was a 90s kid for being born during Clinton's second term and having no conscious recollection of anything before about 2003.
>>51615552
90s had the best music and there wasnt any of this politics trying to dominate culture or the law, and there was a lot more freedom.
I don't have enough knowledge to decide what periode was the best, but if I would choose, I would be curious about
>1918-1936 : For the feeling of victory and glory. France was with Britain the major power. We had our empire and french was the lingua franca. France was also complete with the return of Alsace-Lorraine and we lived in the sweet illusion that war will never happend again at our border.
>1799-1814 : To see France raising from ashe to the firmament of glory under the rule of Napoleon.
>>51615105
1392-1430
>>51620550
>90s had the best music
That 90s Britpop shit was awful, although it can't be worse than grunge.
>>51616099
>proper economic policy
I dunno if you call reducing Europe to rubble to buy ourselves 25 years of economic supremacy "proper", but...
>>51620618
Im not on about britpop, there was a lot more than just the most mainstream stuff
70's if I can belive my parents. The best is yet to come.
>>51620588
>1918-1936 : For the feeling of victory and glory. France was with Britain the major power. We had our empire and french was the lingua franca. France was also complete with the return of Alsace-Lorraine and we lived in the sweet illusion that war will never happend again at our border.
Then again, you had an entire generation of shell-shocked idiots walking around who could never function as normal human beings again.
Fun little story: When visiting Paris in 1924, Gertrude Stein's car started experiencing mechanical difficulties. So her driver pulled into a repair shop. Anyway, the story goes that she watched the attendant shuffle around aimlessly as if in a trance and the owner of the shop shook his head and said "Don't mind him. They're all like that, those who've been in the war. Truly they're a lost generation."
For this reason, the generation that fought the Great War was commonly referred to as the Lost Generation.
>>51620664
Funny, all the nostalgic middle aged maroons who wank over the 70s in Britain when the economy was dead and trash piled up in the streets b/c daily strikes.
>>51621016
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/9155645/From-stack-heels-to-heartbreak-in-1976.html
:^)
>>51620870
The war really wasn't that bad to be honest
>>51621148
Well yeah, there wasn't any fighting on your soil. In fact that's the main reason why Hitler happened; Germans didn't believe they'd actually lost.
Eh, I'd like to say 80s or 90s, but I was a little shit back then, so instead I'd say either 30s or 10s.
>>51620074
>Music was awesome too (no autotune, you actually had to be semi-talented)
They were actually using primitive autotune techniques as far back as the 60s. For example, there were assorted talentless hacks in those days like Fabian and Nancy Sinatra who were absolutely terrible vocalists and they had to string their recording together from multiple takes to get something that was even remotely listenable.
The fact is, they would have gladly used Autotune in those days if it existed.
>>51621444
>Not 2500 years ago
Nice trips tho
>>51621148
That's the most retarded thing I ever read on /int/.
Congratulation.
>>51621148
>The war really wasn't that bad to be honest
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWHbF5jGJY0
>>51615105
750s a.U.c.
>>51620870
"I would not say America suffered greatly in the war. Only five people from my graduating class didn't come back from France and the colleges had a higher than average proportion of enlistees. For comparison, men of my age do not exist in Europe. I've searched for them, but they're 25 years gone."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
>>51621813
Or you could look at Serbia where something like 30% of their entire population died in WWI.
>>51615615
That's aweful but not wrong ;_;
End of 90s and early 00s for me since im a 22yo kid. I think 80s is the biggest meme decade here overall.
in Pedro II or Vargas ruling
>>51615147
Basically this
>>51620618
Primal Scream, Shoegaze
>>51620657
Nah, it's fine
1980's to present
Anyone who disagrees will be euthanized for the good of the Earth.
>>51621148
1880-1914, fucking germans have to ruin our economy with war with Britain
>>51622811
Millennial please go back to your safe space
Any date before AIDS.
>>51622835
WWI was a whole 'nother level of hell never seen before or since especially since the fighting was as pointless as it could possibly get. There was no real villain in that war or just cause to fight for, also it ended in a way that Europe had to go to war all over again in 20 years.
WWII had worse in terms of atrocities committed on civilian populations, but in terms of spectacularly gory combat action, 1914-18 will never be topped. Verdun was the stuff of nightmares.
>>51615147
pretty much
>>51622668
I laff'd.
1970-75 were the year's where Canada had a quality of life above any other country
so that
50s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InzbUXRKY-4
>>51625131
It's not very different today. You're still really high on the rankings.
>>51625005
>>51622835
A French veteran of the Great War recalled that "We used the dead as stepping stones so we wouldn't have to step through pools of water and get trench foot. You had to lay them face down and step on their backs, otherwise their stomachs would sink in. It was horrible. It was disgusting. Everywhere were were surrounded by death."
>>51615976
I always thought that i will die before 30.
34 and still here :I
>>51620618
>he doesn't like grunge
>he doesn't think Alice in Chains was among the best bands of the 90s
1933-1945
>>51625390
proxy?
80´s No franco, good heroin and freedom
>>51625307
>>51625005
>>51622835
At battles like the Somme, you had entire villages of 18-40 year old men wiped out in 30 minutes of action.
>>51625293
yeah, but i mean we had the highest HDI in the world at this time, were still up there, yeah
>>51615105
Amazing how much Algeria looks like Moscow
>>51625822
It's Moscow mane.
Now.
>>51625860
I'll admit 70s USSR looks pretty comfy
>>51625860
How is life in Algeria? Seems pretty comfy?
60's-70's & 95-2007
>>51615105
mmm dem titties ;) x
>>51615105
80s or 90s.
>Not today
We have so much shit compared to the past, yeah there's problems, but there was never a time better than the present
>>51615105
Now
>>51620550
90s rock was quite good, but 90s pop and hip hop were worse than what we've got today
>>51615147
this
>>51615105
20's and 40's. Economy booming. Integrated society. "The Switzerland of the Americas".
I was born in the 80's and I can't decide which one was better:
80's: dictatorship for the first five years. National union mood against it. Hyperinflation. Poverty. Very limited access to foreign goods. We felt that the first world was another galaxy. Decent first democratic government that couldn't manage the economic destruction that the military left. Great time to enjoy the street. 8 year old child who went with neighborhood friends to the park in perfect safety while mom and dad took a nap. Local clubs are crowned world champions.
90's: economic bonanza, people starts to buy imported shit and travelling abroad, street starts to get dangerous, Argentinian TV invasion, Shallowness on the rise. Crisis hits at the end of the decade.
00's: starts with the worse crisis ever. 18% unemployement, everyone tries to leave to Spain to wash dishes for 500 euros. 2004 we have a rebound to the biggest economic mega boom ever. Cars, cellphones, travels. Any 20something with a shitty job posts pictures of his caribbean vacations in facebook. Center Left wing governments for the first time who get a grip and seem invincible. Street violence on the rise. Razorwire starts to appear in houses by the end of the decade.
10's: Economic megaboom continues, 18 year old girls dress like whores and take 20 selfies per night thinking they're models. Bars and clubs are full every single night. Mujica becomes an international mega star. Gay marriage, abortion, weed. Economy starts to lose steam and everybody is nervous now. Children can't go to school in some neighborhoods due to gang shootings.
Personally, I enjoyed the 80's and 00's more, but I think that's not really related to the march of the country.
ITT: People wishing they were from a time period they know fuck all about. I've heard enough rambling 15 minute stories about lawnmowers from my grandfather to know the 60s fucking blew.
>>51625980
Can be comfy if you live in the mountains.
>>51626511
Good post. Thouroughly informative.
>>51615105
>What was the best decade to live in your county?
3,000 BC
>>51620074
>But yeah in the 90's Cold War was over, we're the last remaining superpower, no ISIS or al-Qaeda in prominence yet. Shit's great. Our mortal enemy for the last 50 years is a fucking wreck and we're actually giving them aid and loans.
Yea, the US hadn't invaded the middle east then. That kinda pisses people off.
>>51615727
Rare flag
>>51627242
kek
1888 desu
>>51626550
uracunt
1945-1964 for America.
>>51626550
Did you enjoy his rants about damn hippies and their damn Rolling Stones garbage music and Artie Shaw had more talent in one pinkie than Mick Jagger in his entire...
>>51629274
>age of McCarthyism and nuclear scares
>>51615105
1910s-1920s
The decade before islam came in
1450–1850
>>51629454
it was also the age of unparalleled economic prosperity for every level of society (even the blacks got richer) and hallmarked by a flourishing of the arts.
>>51629916
>it was also the age of unparalleled economic prosperity for every level of society
You know that was only because Europe and Japan had been destroyed in the war and we had no industrial competition.
>and hallmarked by a flourishing of the arts
Wut.
>>51629961
>You know that was only because Europe and Japan had been destroyed in the war and we had no industrial competition.
for some reason you think the means have anything to do with the ends.
america produced an astounding amount of culture in that period. art, literature, music, movies... you know -- like fucking disney movies, abstract expressionism, post-WW2 southern gothic, rock and roll. remember, THIS was the period of time when foreigners started to really grasp how imperialistic american popular culture was.
>>51630175
>abstract expressionism, post-WW2 southern gothic, rock and roll
Most of that was degenerate art like Jackson Pollack's random paint sploches and Andy Warhol's paintings of soup cans. In a few more decades that led to feminists smearing menstrual blood on canvases and calling it "art".
>>51625323
Unfortunately that's probably what will happen to me. I've already pussied out twice.
Dunno... (90's = 2000's) > 2010's
>“I think we agree, the past is over. ”
>― George W. Bush
>>51630250
Go back a few decades when Hitler was expelled from art school for wanting to paint traditional portraits/landscapes because in Vienna at that time, only degenerate art was allowed.
>>51630250
i reiterate:
>for some reason you think the means have anything to do with the ends.
it counts as flourishing despite your feelings due to lasting influence. this much you admit. furthermore, there isn't any purpose (or intelligence) in stating series of events. stop being a fucking dipshit, dude.
Memes aside, it was without a doubt the 1990s.
>Cold War over
>Economy booming
>Only wars were few, small-scale, short, and conventional
>Politics less racial
>Population used to decades of fear from The Great Other finally gets to breathe a sigh of relief and outlook is optimistic
9/11 seriously fucking ruined everything.
>>51626511
would you still live in uruguay if you didn't have to?
>>51630538
>>51620231
Also political correctness became a plague for the first time.
>>51615105
2004-2014 desu
There is no such thing, as "best decade to live".
>>51620074
>"Music was awesome too (no autotune, you actually had to be semi-talented) "
Do you actually mean this, by chance?
>>51615105
80s here where pretty 'meh' for the most part, just an extension of the 70's with even worse clothes and better music.
Early 90's where fucking awful- high unemployment, shit economy, late 90's where better though as things began to pick up and people could get work.
2000's, despite being at war for most of it, the country was doing pretty well back home and I honestly don't think anyone had too much to complain about.
2010's, not bad so far
>>51615105
>70's here.
You must be really old, or have false nostalgia
>>51615552
>manchester scene
>factory records
>raves
>horrible
>>51630586
and so did ruthlessly mocking it.
the 90's in america were fantastically optimistic. i don't think anyone born 87-89' could have asked for a better childhood. school shootings and domestic terrorism became a thing too -- but it didn't matter. it was the ecstasy decade.
1871-1914, until some autist fucked up again. Really, everytime we're on a good path autism happens.
>>51615105
16th and 17th, 18th century. .
>>51631375
Sounds like Russia. Every time things are looking up, something horrible happens that sets the country back 200 years.
20s
>>51631487
Tbh if it wasnt for you usa, bitain and france would have fucked up germany to neber rise again after ww2. And communism destroyed just half of germany, the ther half had another golden age in the 60/70. Overall not so bad, but it could have ben so much greater if wilhelm the second had some allies and not just the assburger
404
>>51615105
1960s.
Booming economy. Everything was affordable. Space Race, moon landing. all the good drugs were not illegal.
>>51615105
400 AD, Gupta Empire was best bro
>>51615105
1920s
We were developed, industrial and rich.
>>51631635
Most major narcotics had been banned since the 1930s desu.
>>51631587
Do the Wirtschaftswunder dance!
The only remotely good times were 1905-1915
and 90's because muh freedums. Also 70s and early 80s probably.
>>51631687
POO
>>51631864
Forgot to mention, from prosperity point of view now it's better than ever.
1970-90
those 20 years were actually the most legit desu
2015
>1920-1930
>ruled 1/3 of world pop
>no war
>no spanish flu
>much money
All down hill from there, f.am
>>51622835
The attack on Les Éparges was hindered by the hilly terrain and the failure of French artillery to destroy the defensive obstacles in front of the German trenches, especially barbed wire entanglements, which limited French gains to 500 meters, won at huge cost (above, French soldiers carried a wounded comrade from Éparges). Meanwhile the southern offensive was hardly going any better, as German artillery, machine guns, and massed rifle fire inflicted huge casualties. German artillery bombardments of the French frontlines proved particularly devastating. On April 5, according to the German war record, "Hunderte von Leichen wurden nach vorne aus den Französisch Verschanzungen geworfen." The following day,
German positions on the southern wing… were kept under the fire of the heavy French artillery the whole night, to which our guns successfully replied. These artillery duels lasted… the whole of the following day... Four times consecutively they assaulted our positions only to be thrown back each time with heavy losses. Heaps of dead lay before our trenches.
>>51632656
Despite the spiraling body count Dubail returned to the attack on April 12, with three simultaneous operations from the north and south, including another attack on the German position at Les Éparges. This time he ordered even heavier artillery bombardments to precede the infantry advance, in order to cut the barbed wire and other defensive obstacles. Once again however the Germans hit back with massive artillery fire against the French artillery and front lines, and according to the German war record, “it was observed later that the French heaped up their dead like sand-bags on the parapets of their entrenchments, covering them with clay…” On April 14, Joffre removed two infantry corps from the attacking forces, signaling that the battle was just about over (below, the Bois-le-Prêtre, or “Priest’s Wood,” after the fighting near the town of Pont-a-Mousson on the eastern end of the salient’s southern flank).
>>51632673
However the Germans had other plans: on April 23, 1915 Strantz launched a surprise attack against the French near Les Éparges, and the following day succeeded in capturing several kilometers of French frontline and secondary trenches—a victory due in large part to a massive artillery bombardment. In his memoir Storm of Steel, Ernst Junger recalled his first experience of combat at Les Éparges, which had a somewhat surreal flavor:
Towards noon, the artillery fire had increased to a kind of savage pounding dance. The flames lit around us incessantly. Black, white, and yellow clouds mingled. The shells with black smoke, which the old-timers called “Americans” or “coal boxes,” ripped with incredible violence. And all the time the curious, canary-like twittering of dozens of fuses… they drifted over the long surf of explosions like ticking copper toy clocks or mechanical insects. The odd thing was that the little birds in the forest seemed quite untroubled by the myriad noise… In the short intervals of firing, we could hear them singing happily or ardently to one anothe
>>51632688
Afterwards, Junger encountered a horrifying scene in the conquered French trenches, where he encountered the casualties of previous battles:
A sweetish smell and a bundle hanging in the wire caught my attention. In the rising mist I leaped out of the trench and found a shrunken French corpse. Flesh like moldering fish gleamed greenishly through splits in the shredded uniform. Turning round, I took a step back in horror: next to me a figure was crouched against a tree. Empty eye-sockets and a few strands of hair on the bluish-black skull indicated that this man was not among the living. There was another sitting down, slumped forward towards his feet, as though he had just collapsed. All around were dozens more, rotted, dried, stiffened to mummies, frozen in an eerie dance of death. The French must have spent months in the proximity of their fallen comrades, without burying them.
>>51615105
70's - 80's I guess
Though I leave a pretty comfy life overall, wouldn't trade it for anything.
>>51615105
The 50s or the 90s
>>51615147
those were terrible years
late 90's fashion, the music, everything about that was fucking shit
>>51626288
Hip hop is better now that it was in 90's...nigga are you serious?
>>51615105
1470's
Moldova knew its glory back then.
1930's where fine as well.
2030's
>>51632733
Sorry you got beaten as a 10 year old clive
>>51633131
tfw no longer chabelo jokes about the future
>>51632733
90's graffiti and skateboarding was pretty good bruh
>>51615105
>was
right fucking now nigga
Im nearly 30 and it keeps getting better
WW2
>tfw wil never go on a rampage slaughtering russians for Führer
>>51619145
this
>>51620070
1470.
2005-2015
Easily
1933 - 1942
My family jumped on the nazi bandwagon very early, all had good jobs as nazi bureaucrats, some were officers in the military. Lived in a villa in the suburbs of Berlin. One family member was a highly decorated war hero who fought in the invasion of france.
>>51636245
Really? I was gonna say 1996 - 2002
>>51620074
It wouldn't surprise me. Winning the cold war was cool.
The decade started with Hannah Barbera stuff still going very strong on TV.
For Norway I have no idea. Such much slowly rising degeneracy.
>>51620599
ayy senpai. We will bring it back.
I would have loved being a nobleman in the pre-Révolution era, waging war all your fucking life until your son kills you at 37 in single combat to marry some bitch you didn't like.
Or a ruthless and ungifted thief during the Révolution, pillaging both the riches and the poors, getting into street fights, jailed for slicing a hobo's throat in an alley and freed back to die as cannon fodder in the Grande Armée on it's way to get France's glory a last spark of hope.
Or a fucked up poète maudit during the 19th century in Paris, spending my few coins on coke, booze and whores between two writings, getting universally famous at 49 right before dying of cirrhosis with my name engraved in History for all eternity.
early 1940s
>>51636438
In 10 years people will look at this photo and think "omg, what a bunch of stylish motherfuckers". Clothes designers will be inspired by it and 90s will come back.
Just like people are inspired by 80s right now.
