If for no other reason, I'm very nearsighted and wear contacts, so hell no.

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I think to watch the world transition to automobiles and the early adoption of air travel would have been a remarkable time to be alive in human history.

Watching the moon landings and the advent of smartphones and facetime is pretty remarkable as well.

"Can we take that buck or elk from the hoof to the table?"

With a truly primitive weapon!

For many reasons already stated, it would be a great place (time) to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there!

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
It was bad enough growing up 100 or so years after that period, so absolutely not.

I have read a lot about the history of early medical practices. As I mentioned in one of the cataract threads, at one time, long before any sort of anesthetics, some people opted to have the clouded lens removed so they could at least see light and darkness. During the same period a woman with breast cancer elected to have a mastectomy (and died later anyway). I once had a tooth filled without anesthetic for reasons I won’t go into, and that was more than enough of that sort of thing for me without even considering all the other reasons to prefer being here and now.

Was it safe?

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
I have held the same belief as the OP's brother my entire life.

Somebody please invent a time machine. I'd go back in a second.

+1
I think the fact you didn’t know any better was of benefit. That might make some aspects harder, while offering great benefits in others. I’ll happily take my present knowledge with.

No doubt I would take the easy way out and be an outlaw.

I should've been a cowboy. I should've learned to to rope and ride
Wearin' nmy six-shooter, ridin' my pony on a cattle drive
Stealin' the young girls hearts just like Gene and Roy

I might've had a sidekick with a funny name
Running wild through the hills chasin' Jesse James
Riding shotgun for the Texas Rangers

Thank Toby Keith for those words when you get to Heaven.

I love playing some Red Dead Online, but I also love going to my fridge and getting a frosty cold beverage while I'm doing that.

Small pox, measles, … etc. No thanks!

I do not remember the exact names,

however, there is a few shows worth watching

one was US based, basically a family moved to a plot of land and had to start like a homesteader from 18whatever,

real people like you and I signed up, were selected and spend the time on the land like it was 1870 or whenever, lived in period tents or on the land while building period style housing,

another show was in the UK. Alex langlands and another guy, as well a a woman, first name ruth,
they did Tudor, Edwardian, and a few other shows on living on a farm in that time frame,
pretty damn interesting,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_Monastery_Farm


and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Farm
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pretty damn interesting
all done relatively period correct


and no, my old fat ass would die trying it

I’ve been daydreaming about living in the old west all of my life, but I definitely do not want to really live there. Besides all of the reasons already given, could you imagine the boredom? Nothing but card games to pass the time, and depending on where you lived books may be a luxury.

I think I'd extend the "life was a bitch and then you died" period up to about 1950, when the polio vaccine came out. You had two world wars, the Great Depression (with the overlapping Dust Bowl), and the news was rife with people crippled - or stuck in iron lungs - from polio. The one saving grace pre-1950 was penicillin. It saved thousands of lives that would otherwise have been lost to infected war wounds, as well as curing other diseases like syphilis.

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No effen way.

I romanticized the "mountain man" of the early 1800's.
For many years.

Trading with the native Americans,
Speaking French and their languages.

Totally self reliant .
Then I read a half dozen books, and well,
I can't begin to imagine living through that God awful mess of a lifestyle.

He got the rheumatiz and died.

No, I modern whiskey and cigars are much better.

We’ve all watched Gunsmoke & Matt Dillon. What about the hapless soul that gets shot in the back? I know it’s just a mental exercise, but just like war, you could be the unlucky one.

Even a modern ‘Reenactment’ would be a more sensible choice.

I believe it was Kit Carson who was married three times, each of his wives died in childbirth. One of the babies lived long enough to starve to death because it had no mother to breast feed it.

Hit up a Dude Ranch, plenty of them around, the link is to a list of the top 50, there are resort ranches to full working ranches...

Plenty in the USA From Tucson AZ to Whitefish MT

The one I found interesting is the one in Argentina, Estancia Los Portreros.

I'd bet that's as cool as it would get, probably no guns but still be cool to spend time on a horse, camping, round up some horses, learn to lasso....

https://www.top50ranches.com/

Medicine was bad enough in the 1900's. I know, I was trained in it.
Heart attack? Sorry, dude, nothin' I can do.

Never been a better time for humans to be alive than now. We may have our first-world problems but nothing like what they had to go through.

Would I go visit? For a couple days, sure, if I got to pick the specific time and place, and had a guaranteed return ticket home.