Depends on how long I'd have to stay. I'd vacation almost anywhen, but for long-term living I can't imagine a better time than now. That said, my second choice would be 1978: Reasonably decent health care/dentistry, a nice assortment of tinkerable technologies to play with (I wire-wrapped a computer in 1976), government and culture that weren't as paranoid, religion that was not as combative, and a reasonable labor shortage rather than the permanent surplus we have today. I'm contrarian in that I don't consider the 70s especially ugly; at least they were no uglier than the 60s or the 80s. I still even have and use a 1976 Harvest Gold Crock Pot. The 50s were a psychotic era; the nostalgic glow comes from people who were 6 years old when McCarthy happened. It was a hideous time to be an adult. Anything before antibiotics is off the table for long-term living. And anyone who pines for the Europe of earlier centuries should read Colin Wilson's book A Criminal History of Mankind. That'll scare you right back to 2008.
Even with pressing problems, like climate change, our future looks very bright.
“I'd believe you, if you were right.”
The next fifty years are going to be the worst that Western Civilization has faced since the 17th century. It's gonna be bad. A lot of chickens are coming home to roost, a lot of trends are climbing or dropping to breakoff points right now. World population, resource depletion, government expansion with concomitant overburdening regulation and depressant, confiscatory taxation - the world is cracking under the strain already. Halifax is pretty far away from any of the real problem areas. Stay there.
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Even with pressing problems, like climate change, our future looks very bright.
“I'd believe you, if you were right.”
The next fifty years are going to be the worst that Western Civilization has faced since the 17th century. It's gonna be bad. A lot of chickens are coming home to roost, a lot of trends are climbing or dropping to breakoff points right now. World population, resource depletion, government expansion with concomitant overburdening regulation and depressant, confiscatory taxation - the world is cracking under the strain already.
Halifax is pretty far away from any of the real problem areas. Stay there.
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