I think I would like to live now to be honest. "Goodnight Sweetheart" was a perfect example of how the 40's might be "fun" for a short visit but when Gary decided to live in the 40s permanently, it wasn't so much fun then. Rations, bombing raids, water and gas shortages, friends and family dying, homelessness....
I do agree about the small shops though. Many communities have died due to the effect of out-of-town superstores with many shops and local trades dying out. The one real difference between the 1940s and now is that then the majority of towns had their own personality. Nowadays they all seem to look the same (there are exceptions of course). The pace of life seemed a lot slower then with most people riding bikes or walking whereas now cars are dominating everywhere. As for mobile phones - it would be nice not to have them. If people were inaccessible for periods of time, then they are less likely to be stressed out!
If I was to travel back to the 1940s, the two things I would really miss is are my PC and the NHS!
Your saying 'combine' has started me on another one..... fields with combine harvesters worked by steam! Yes please! _________________ "Can you hear me Muller?"
Living in the 1940's would be great....for about a week.
No work, dodgy food, bad fashion, no internet, no beer, no coffee and the chance to be shot on the Western Front
Although, I wouldn't mind being a POW in Stalag Luft III and spend my days digging tunnels and jumping barbed wire fences on motorcycles, that sounds like whizzo fun!
Although I polled for living in the 1940s, I'm not actually so sure now.
Bad: No windsurfing, have to wear skirts, no internet or TV, old music, lame entertainment, war.
Good: Bikes, safe underground, food rationing, war (again), Giles cartoons, community spirit, Churchill.
My grandad always says that Dads Army was the most accurate portrayal of wartime England he ever saw and that it was generally equally fun (he was in the home guard as he was making precision timepieces for London). However, he lost his brother in Dunkirk, and his Dutch wife lost all contact with her family back home in Holland - some of whom were killed. So who knows?
I think WWII in sleepy Dorset would have been great - seeing all the remaining concrete shark teeth still lining the shore sends a tingle down my spine... At least it was all so simple then - the opposition wore uniforms and painted their aeroplanes so everyone knew who was who... Except those pesky nuns!
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