If you could live in any other period of time, where and when would it be?

[Joe the Liberal]

If you could go back in time and live during a different part of history in a different place, where and when would it be? However,once you got there there was no coming back to the present, you had to stay there.

Or would you just stay where you are right now?

[blogslut]

1. I would stay

n/t

[csziggy]

2. If I could change times it would be the future or nothing

I'd probably be burned as a witch any time in the last 1500 years. Earlier than that would just be too crude.

[slackmaster]

3. Hawaii just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor

I'd like to be there and see it all unfold.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

19. My parents were there then...the stories they told...

[DJ13]

4. Since this is fantasy

Atlantis, about 200 years before it sinks.

[Mr. Ected]

5. I'd Go Back One Day

And lay bets on everything I could think of.

And tell my 11 year old son not to trip on that rock and skin his knee all to hell.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Oviedo, Spain, XIV Century

None shall pass!

[conspirator]

7. In the good old 1980's in the UK or US nt

[Orrex]

8. I would go back to Tuesday a week ago

That was the coolest Tuesday in months.

[HeresyLives]

9. Never to the past.

Only to the future.

[Ikonoklast]

10. Paleolithic North America.

I would love to see the megafauna that inhabited the continent at that time.

[bemildred]

13. Excellent choice.

Opening up a pristine continent with no other humans to compete with sounds hard to beat. But I have to say post-WWII USA was not bad either, but a much more short-lived opportunity.

[CTyankee]

11. When I read about the "olden days" I am so horrified with the disease, violence and poverty

of so many people, coupled with constant war, I cannot say I would like to live in those time periods.

However, I would like to "visit" them: Renaissance Italy for example, just to be alive when those masters were creating their works. Or Salzburg, Austria when Mozart was writing his music. If there were a time machine that would whisk me back I would take it to those times.

I enjoy the fact that medical science has saved me from certain death at times in my life. I am not sickly at all, but I have had situations that have been resolved thru medical science.

Also, I like flush toilets. I cannot imagine life without them...

[yasmina27]

12. Can we keep our current knowledge?

If so, I would go back 25 years or so in my own life, and council my younger self to do things differently, invest money wisely and leave it to myself when my younger self becomes my current age.

[Mr. Ected]

14. Reminds Me of an old Steven Wright joke:

I saw a sign that said "Breakfast served anytime".

So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. 1950's, and stay there.

Happily.

[Dramarama]

47. Same here

[KGodel]

16. 1995

When Apple was about $13 a share and I had some money to invest.

Currently > $120/share and has split since then. I considered it at the time but didn't.

Stupidest thing I ever did.

[pipi_k]

17. 1968 or 1969...those were the last years

of my innocence.

I would gladly go back and relive them as many times as I could.

[Canuckistanian]

18. 1968. I'd love to see the cultural revolution.

I'd buy a big place in either Frisco or NY, invite some influential people over and see what happened.

That would be fantastic.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

20. Elizabethan or Victorian England

[Selatius]

21. Spanish Civil War.

I would not mind doing what George Orwell did in the 1930s. He traveled to Spain to fight the rising tide of fascism there during the Spanish Civil War. I would've been a witness to the Spanish communes that rose up during those days and see for my own self how they operated. I would've joined an anti-fascist militia or even one of the famous American militias like the George Washington Brigade or the Lincoln Brigade, but it obviously wouldn't have been one of the groups funded by Joseph Stalin.

On a more personal note, I would've gone back to January 12th of this year and do it all over again. I'd be a happier man with fewer regrets.

[rockymountaindem]

39. That era is really fascinating

That's the answer I probably would have given too, although joining that Abraham Lincolns might not be the best idea considering they suffered above 50% casualties in many battles and lots of their guys were killed by political officers at or behind the lines. Then they were hounded by McCarthyites for years. But I know what you mean, having some role in the epic defeat of fascism, and perhaps saving some of my Jewish brothers from the Holocaust really appeals to me. A terrible time to be alive, I think, but the people who survived on the Allied side would probably never go through life feeling like they hadn't accomplished anything.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

22. I would love to have been a courtier

or a royal scribe in the days of Amenhotep III, his son Akhenaten and Tutankhamen (whoever the hell's son he was) just to know what happened. I've had a lifelong fixation on Ancient Egypt, especially the 18th Dynasty.

I would also love to have been old enough to experience the 1960s firsthand: acid, hippies (especially the hippie chix), activism and great music!

[Hardrada]

24. I was there in the 1960's and was among those countercultural folk.

Great times but there really was a hygiene problem. I was raised to be fastidious.

[Mr. Ected]

25. Have You Ever Read "River God" by Wilbur Smith

I would highly recommend this work of fiction.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

26. Nope, but I've heard good things about Smith's historicals

I have read Allen Drury's "A God Against the Gods" and "Return to Thebes" about twenty times each and Pauline Gedge's "The Twelfth Transformation" four or five times.

[Mr. Ected]

27. Smith Is An Absolute Master

He takes on African history in a way that puts you in the middle of whatever era he is describing. Do yourself a favor and pick up this book. It will grab you from page one.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

28. Will do

There's a Half Price Books just down the road from me. They have everything and then some.

Edit: Just read Smith's autobio on his website. Why am I not surprised that a great writer of historicals is a Brit? I suspect he will wind up sitting right next to the late, great R.F. Delderfield in my personal pantheon of literary giants.

[Hardrada]

23. I could do 1/1 1957 to 11/21/1963 over again

but as a wiser person.Nothing ever the same after.

[ZombieHorde]

29. I would go back to this morning, it was pretty fun. nt

[Demeter]

30. 23rd Century

Star Fleet, here I come!

[Thothmes]

31. Primus Pilus in one of Caesar's Legions.

[Odin2005]

32. The Age of Enlightenment

Maybe have a few cold ones with Tom Paine. :evilgrin:

[lunatica]

33. All my life I looked forward to the 21st Century

because it was the future. The kind of future you read about in science fiction. I feel especially ripped off regarding my dream because Bush regressed us back to 1950. Imagine what this first decade would have looked like if science hadn't been ignored or stem cell research had been supported. Imagine how much further along we would be fighting global warming.

sigh..

[bemildred]

34. The next few decades ought to be one hell of a show. nt

[InvisibleTouch]

35. The Mesozoic Era. n/t

[BlueJazz]

36. 1935

[canetoad]

37. Nothing against here and now, but

next choice would be right here, in the same place, before Europeans colonized Australia. Meaning I would be an Aboriginal, living on, part of and caring for tribal land.

The tribe that used to inhabit the area I live are called the Wurundjeri. Many public events and buildings acknowledge the traditional owners. I am reminded of a conversation I had with an Aboriginal park ranger in Queensland over twenty years ago. He said that his people would select a big gum tree and carefully excise a bark canoe from it. They would never cut down the tree. 'That would be stupid, because if you leave it standing you can come back every year for ten years and get yourself another canoe.'

[MgtPA]

38. Early 80's, where I would buy boatloads of MIcrosoft stock.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

40. Where I am now

because that is where I am supposed to be.

If I could travel back for a visit, though, it would be to the Midwest in 1850s to look up a few elusive ancestors on my family tree.

[The Hope Mobile]

41. Pre-Bush/Cheney days . . . or November 21, 1963

to prevent that and maybe many future catastrophes.

The 90s were very good to me

[Generic Brad]

42. I would go back prior to the last Powerball lottery drawing

And then I would win the freaking jackpot!

Game. Set. Match.

[CANDO]

43. At first thought, it would be during the American Revolution.

But don't you think it would be pure torture to take current knowledge with you? Knowing what lies ahead and really having very little influence to change it. I'll stay here and live my life.

[seabeyond]

44. i just need my indoor plumbing.... depends if i have money. n/t

[pup_ajax]

45. today or tomorrow

I'm happy living in today's times when GLBT issues are front and center and changing rapidly.
Maybe not as fast as I'd like, but the times they are a changin' ...

I wouldn't mind going into the future to see if we evolve or devolve, but I have no real interest in returning to the past.

[Seldona]

46. I would live outside of time mostly.

Say in a large, self-contained, starship travelling at near the speed of light, stopping only now and again to gather information on how humanity has progressed or regressed. Than back to near the speed of light to stop by in another 1000 years, or a few days of my time.

I could watch nearly the entire history of the world unfold, with the price of never being a part of it. Sounds good to me.

[XemaSab]

48. I have to say being a part of the Lewis and Clark expedition

or a similar exploration would be pretty cool.

Marco Polo's trip would be a close second.

The world seems so small in so many ways, and the idea of heading out with NO idea what you're in for seems pretty cool to me.

[summer borealis]

49. The late Cretaceous

no cheneys