Is it true that everybody was happy in the 1980's?

never is everyone happy in any decade.....that's an absolute myth......there's always gonna be unhappy people, who either just don't fit the culture, or are not happy period.....always.

It actually was true - look at the reality tv of the time - game shows. People were actual people then. I lived though it and the only fear was either red dawn or the day after. People in general were much happier the further you go back in history to a point. Can't wait for what is coming next. /sarc

The 50's was the best time. Dads had jobs, Mothers stayed home and raised the kids. I was born in 49 so I grew up in the best times. Kids could stay out and play after dark, no one screamed raciest, and no free rides for the people who were too lazy to work.

Last Edited by MONSTER on 11/24/2015 04:11 AM

the early 80s sucked, the Reagan recession
but by 1985, things were pretty good until 1990.

not true. not true at all.

cocaine was a big deal among all classes

Very happy. It was the high water mark by many measures, or at least the last hurrah.

It started when I was 10 and ended at 20. I'm glad I got to see it, and at that particular time in my life.

No it wasn't. Crack didn't hit until 1984 and it was used only by ghetto nogs. The powder stuff was so expensive nobody but the rich could afford it.

Drug use was probably at 20th century low the whole decade. I could count the number of regular drug users I knew on one hand.

It's true.... people were friendly and smiled a lot. Friends were easy to make and there were good times for all.

Parties every weekend... live bands... hot girls...

It all seems like a fantastic dream now, so sad.

I was happy back then but aren't all teenagers happy?
It was better by far than now though

cocaine was everywhere in the early 1980s.

my boss was doing it,
my landlord and my best friend. I got picked up at a bar by a woman who took me home and we snorted.

90's was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy better.

This is true - people were happy back then. Poor/rich...both were happy. Even the rich are pissed off today. My theory is too many people and social engineering.

no

I was pretty fucking happy.

Now is like hell on earth.

It was grubbier, grimier and more thoroughly morally degraded. Better, if degeneracy, but with all the trappings of a civilized society still intact, was what you were into.

Now all we have is the filth and corruption and left.

That would be the Jimmy Carter recession of the early 80s. Reagan did not take office until 1981, after Carter fucked things up, like Obama is doing now.

Presidents have no control over recessions, that's the central banks that do that.

That recession was a bad one. My dad was building a house in 1983. He used to have workers drive by the site and offer to work for coffee, just because they hadn't built a house in 2 years and wanted to do it just for fun. I shit you not. At that time, in a city of 200,000 people, my dad's house was the only one being built.

It was great for my dad, he got real plaster walls done by some old Italians for less than the price of drywall. they just wanted the job to keep in practice. They would have worked for free too.

One word answer - NO - thread over

this made me sad.

I always remember my friends dads exact words. "I had a life before all that shit (the internet)."

i don't know about happy


but hope was alive

the american dream seemed semi possible if you worked for it (lol little did we know)

and P.C. shit like homosexuality and race relations were never really talked about. gays stayed in the closet, blacks stayed in their own neighborhoods so the crime was semi contained.


80's were better

security camera and camera phones ruined so much

The big I was a blessing at first and is now our curse...as I am using it to post this. Not sure I want to see where this leads.

I called it the Carter recession because the poster called it the Reagan recession.

BTW, the recession of 2008 was not the Bush recession. It was precipitated by the Federal Reserve relentlessly raising interest rates until the economy collapsed.

It was the best of times and it was the worst of times.

I was raised in the 70s/80s, and I experienced the same :)

Like it is true, that everybody was happy in the 90's, 70's or 60's... when people talk about their past, they tend to emphasize the positive things and hide or even forget the negative ones. When you're younger, life is logically more easier, as when you are grown up - less responsibility, less stress.

And even though we hadn't all the technology in the 80's and the world wasn't as global is it is today, this doesn't mean, that life was happier for everybody... it was probably more easier, but if a life is happy or not, has nothing to do with that. It is an individual thing. Kids who were born in 2009 can also have a happy childhood and great teenage years, it's all subjective.

And to be honest, to be scared the whole time, that WW3 could start any second, is not very comforting.