Would you rather live as a rich person during the 1920s or a regular person today

1920s, champagne for breakfast and medicinal cocaine.

1920s I would have tried to fuck Jelly Roll Morton or at least suck his cock

But no iPhones, no insta hook-ups, no quick flights to Paris or Palm Springs, no parades, no PrEP, no Tony’s.

Horse shit in the streets. Unsafe, rickety cars that moved at a crawl. Polluted air and water. No antibiotics. No gay rights whatsoever.

I want access to modern medicine, dentistry and antiperspirants.

The 1920s were the most interesting decade in the last 150 years - it was when the world almost suddenly, convulsively became modern

That would be fascinating to experience.

1920s would be fun but I don’t want to be a wastrel like so many.

I love jazz from that era. It would have been awesome to see it played live

Stay away from the 20s' jazz and liquor, boys!

BUT in Paris, specifically in Monmarte.

If Buddy Rogers is my boyfriend.

Being mid-upper middle class in TODAYS money would already be a step up for me, so I’m going to have to go with the latter.

Rich in 1920’s is too uncertain. Where do I live? Who do I have the opportunity to spend time with? How rich am I? Am I going to lose it all on Black Monday? Will I get polio? Will I go blind or deaf at a young age and have limited ability to compensate for it? Do I have syphilis? Am I married to someone I can’t stand, but can’t divorce?

I’ll stick with now.

Can I live as a rich Persian?

[Quote] I want access to modern medicine, dentistry and antiperspirants.

Agree r5. Lack of antibiotics would kill you off fast anyway. People still got tuberculosis and polio back then.

With the crash of 1929, I'd rather deal with today. People who thought they had a lot of money suddenly didn't. My aunt and uncle said nothing happened immediately afterward. It wasn't until 1931 that the shit hit the fan. Of course, we have had the so-called Great Recession of 2008. That Turd in the Oval Orifice is using the world economy like his own yo-yo.

R4- We are talking about 1925 not 1905. After World War I most horses disappeared from urban areas in the United States.

But not smoking, R17. Everywhere. That & the general lack of hygiene is enough to keep me from wanting to live in those times.

A large portion of the homes in the near suburbs of NYC were built in the 1920’s. Most had more than one bathroom, usually 1.5 or 2, and a garage. These were homes for middle class people.

If you were rich, you weren’t wading through horseshit or wearing dirty clothes.

How old are you, R4?

[quote] Polluted air and water. No antibiotics. No gay rights whatsoever.

SUPER!!!

Horses did continue to be used in the 1920s although not as intensively as in the 19th century.

R6 indeed Looking at the people in the photos from this link, there’s something so contemporary about their demeanor. I’m particularly struck by the housewife with the short black hair and long sleeve shirt- for some reason, I must have foolishly assumed every woman in the 1920s wore dresses all the time, but that woman looks like you could more or less plop her in a kitchen today and hardly anyone would bat a eye; much less over the top/cartoonish than the housewives of the 1950s