is there one besides me that wishes that they would have lived back in 1850 to 1900 range or is it just me?

My first job was working at a pioneer village, so I have got as close to living in that time as possibly. The village had building dating from 1810-1910 so it was easy to see the great steps these people made. I can see both the positive and negative of living in this time frame, but their are so may negatives....Those nice outfit consist of 3 layers mim often wool, farm animals can be dangerous (ever try to walk a Ox or a calf on a lead?)every thing is done with open flames, and I've never been colder then that day I did x-mas service in our church.

But I just can't get over the mortality, the death rate...If I had been born in that time i would most likely be dead and my brother would have been!

I would be much happier if I could be beamed back in time with all my vaccinations and shot and a tube of polisporin.

My suggestion is to find a pioneer village or a historical museum home near you and volunteer.

I have always thought about what life would have been like back then. I have always been curious what it would have been like to live with no vehicles, electricity, Yes I would have liked to have lived back then. But then I probably wouldn't have lived past 32 because of illnesses I have had and only lived because of the modern day medicines and surgery. Maybe only to trade places with someone for say a month. That would be great.

Ah, you'd enjoy putting on the bustle every morning, followed by the chest bone and the corsette. Of course, using moss as a sanitary pad might be a little uncomfortable. Washing clothes all day, spending hours preparing meals, ocassionally working in the fields .... ah yes, those were the days.

Well,if you wanted to hunt for your own food, shoot it, clean it and cook it, OK. No toilet paper, if it works for you, great. No electricity, so if you didn't mind burning down your house with lanterns, OK. If you wanted to put up with all the horse turds in the unpaved dirt street, good. Especially drinking water-if you were lucky you didn't drink unsafe water. Women had to wear about three layers of clothing from the neck to their feet year round, even in 100 degree weather. No hospitals. Let's not talk about the medical community. THat's just the tip of the way it was.

Other than those minor problems, I'd love it.

I forgot ! No Tampax or Kotex.

Me too! The world was much more simpler, but women weren't really allowed to vote until the mid 1920's about. You could adopt children more easily, but life was also much harder in the chore section. I totally agree with you, to be in those times would be just grand!

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I do everytime I watch a movie like "Pride and Prejudice" and then I think about what it was like to go to a 19th century dentist. Ouch!

I've always wanted to live during the 1920s myself. But no you are not alone.

Its not just you. I would love to have lived back then. I love the dresses that the women wore.

Those are the dark ages. I love the world as it is today.